An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198542747 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Timothy Charles Whitmore, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, England CB2 3EN.
Ecol.,38, 93-94 . A greater awareness has led to bolder initiatives emerging to promote sustainable management of these forests, such as the rapidly approaching Year 2000 Objective set by the ITTO. Jr. In the end this excellant book is positive that a sustainable balance might be struck before the forests disappear. The most significant changes in this edition address these issues with an extra chapter added, focusing on management for sustainability. Tim Baker/East African Wilde Life Society/Afr
Examples are drawn from all parts of the humid tropic. The author addresses questions such as to what extent are there real differences between rain forests in different places, and what are the current frontiers of knowledge?, and is present-day concern about man's impacts on tropical rain forests justified? Previous books by T.C.Whitmore include "Tropical Rain Forest Ecology and Management" and "Rain Forest Regeneration and Management".. Today there is more research being conducted in tropical rain forests than ever before. This book provides an introduction to the world's tropical rain forests for a broad readership, describing their structure and functioning, their value to man and what he is doing to them. Some is driven by curiousity, some by desire to harness these forests to mankind's needs
Good introduction to tropical rainforest This book is a good general introduction to the tropical rainforest of the world. It includes sections on plants, ecology, convergent evolution, and human use. It has some black and white photographs and 'classic' diagrams and graphs. It's technical level is probably that of early university ecology. (It is obviously good, as someone has knocked my copy off!)Damon Ra. A great book on tropical rainforests. Isaac Ho I have a copy of this book. I known the author, the late Dr. Timothy Whitmore for more than three years in the 1970s. He was then a Colombo Plan Botanist assigned to the Forest Research Institute, Kepong, Malaysia. I was then the Institute's photographer. Whitmore would often ask me to accompany him to explore the forests to take photographs of trees and plants. I am. A Customer said this book was very enriching and enlightening, spiritual. It was a book that helped me gain knowledge but it also made me want to go out and explore it, it was fabulous Icould hardly put it down and it helped a lot with my research paper. Thanks