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Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation
Jaboury Ghazoul
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Description for Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation
Paperback. This is a comprehensive, attractive, and readable introduction to tropical rain forest ecology, biogeography, and management. It tackles the subject at local, regional, and global scales, and is both up-to-date and fully integrated across disciplines. Num Pages: 536 pages, 200 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAF; PSTS; RGBL; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 189 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1168.
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial proportion of the world's population and are the source of many internationally traded commodities. They remain (despite decades of conservation attention) increasingly vulnerable to degradation and clearance, with profound though often uncertain future costs to global society. Understanding the ecology of these diverse biomes, and peoples' dependencies on them, is fundamental to their future management and conservation. Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation introduces and explores what ... Read more
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial proportion of the world's population and are the source of many internationally traded commodities. They remain (despite decades of conservation attention) increasingly vulnerable to degradation and clearance, with profound though often uncertain future costs to global society. Understanding the ecology of these diverse biomes, and peoples' dependencies on them, is fundamental to their future management and conservation. Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation introduces and explores what ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
1175g
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199285884
SKU
V9780199285884
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About Jaboury Ghazoul
Jaboury Ghazoul's first encounter with tropical rain forests in 1993 was a prolonged one, spending one year living rough in the forests of Vietnam where his scientific subjects were disturbingly close. It was during this year that he learnt to distinguish the sound of a chainsaw from the call of a cicada. Imbued with such knowledge and confidence, he began ... Read more
Reviews for Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation
I congratulate the authors for a book that, although technical in nature, reminds us of what we are beginning to understand about the tropical rainforests and inspires even the world-weary to continue the battle to conserve these most diverse of terrestrial systems for their inherent biodiversity value,
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Without exception, we all enjoyed this ... Read more