Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape | 
| Creators: Nigel Stork, Steve Turton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
List Price: $95.00
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Sales Rank: 924047
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 652
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.9 x 1.6
ISBN: 1405156430
Dewey Decimal Number: 577.3409943
EAN: 9781405156431
ASIN: 1405156430
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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Product Description
This book brings together a wealth of scientific findings and ecological knowledge to survey what we have learned about the “Wet Tropics” rainforests of North Queensland, Australia. This interdisciplinary text is the first book to provide such a holistic view of any tropical forest environment, including the social and economic dimensions.
- The most thorough assessment of a tropical forest landscape to date
- Explores significant scientific breakthroughs in areas including conservation genetics, vegetation modeling, agroforestry and revegetation techniques, biodiversity assessment and modeling, impacts of climate change, and the integration of science in natural resource management
- Research achieved, in part, due to the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (the Rainforest CRC)
- Written by a number of distinguished international experts
- contains chapter summaries and section commentaries
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