Views on the dynamics of tropical forests are changing rapidly with the recognition that their environment is variable on the decadal to century scale. Fluctuating climatic conditions partly determine tropical forest structure, species composition and dynamics. Tropical communities are also highly contingent in space and time with respect to site and historical factors. Tropical forests have experienced to some degree this disturbance regime in the past, but climatologists are now predicting increasingly frequent extreme events in the new century. The combination of increasing deforestation and land-use conversion by man plus an increasingly variable environment means a situation that could be very difficult to manage. This analysis of changes and disturbances in South-East Asian tropical rainforests addresses these issues.
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Through the 1970s and 1980s, South-East Asia was the leading source of timber for the international tropical hardwood trade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peatland dome, gregarious fruiting event, gbh class, primary understorey, parasitoid webs, drought magnitude frequency, mixed swamp forest, drought frequency changes, low canopy forest, dbh increment, understorey species, recession parameter, termite assemblages, overstorey species, tropical peatlands, contributory areas, pole forest, dipterocarp seedlings, dbh class, dipterocarp species, girth increment, lowland dipterocarp forest, peat thickness, periodic mortality, selective timber extraction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Danum Valley, Barro Colorado, Sungai Sebangau, Kota Kinabalu, Cambridge University Press, Costa Rica, Kuala Lumpur, Ulu Segama, Blackwell Science, Puerto Rico, New York, University of Manchester, Barito Ulu, Southeast Asia, Abdul Rahim, Anak Krakatau, Kasetsart University, Faculty of Forestry, Sungai Tekam, Academic Press, Earth Surf, Forest Ecol, Grieser Johns, New Guinea, Oxford University Press New!
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Through the 1970s and 1980s, South-East Asia was the leading source of timber for the international tropical hardwood trade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peatland dome, gregarious fruiting event, gbh class, primary understorey, parasitoid webs, drought magnitude frequency, mixed swamp forest, drought frequency changes, low canopy forest, dbh increment, understorey species, recession parameter, termite assemblages, overstorey species, tropical peatlands, contributory areas, pole forest, dipterocarp seedlings, dbh class, dipterocarp species, girth increment, lowland dipterocarp forest, peat thickness, periodic mortality, selective timber extraction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Danum Valley, Barro Colorado, Sungai Sebangau, Kota Kinabalu, Cambridge University Press, Costa Rica, Kuala Lumpur, Ulu Segama, Blackwell Science, Puerto Rico, New York, University of Manchester, Barito Ulu, Southeast Asia, Abdul Rahim, Anak Krakatau, Kasetsart University, Faculty of Forestry, Sungai Tekam, Academic Press, Earth Surf, Forest Ecol, Grieser Johns, New Guinea, Oxford University Press New!
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- Puerto Rico (Visit to...) by Leila Merrell Foster on page 24, and page 143
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- Tropical Forest Ecosystems by Proctor on page 11
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- Sri Lanka (Countries of the World (Gareth Stevens)) by Krishnan Guruswamy on page 122
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