The first edition of this book brought together widely diversified research and primary data on a subject that is now of even greater international social and economic importance. The second edition focuses on a number of key topics, including the ecology and niche differentiation of animals, the effects of logging, silviculture, national practices, the rationale behind the swing to polycyclic systems, biomass and productivity studies, nutrients and their cycling, species richness, and species evolution.
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This review is from: Tropical Rain Forests of the Far East (Oxford Science Publications) (Paperback)
Whitmore's classical book is already a few decades old. Consequently it does not include results of modern research and plenty of questions remain unanswered in the book. An emphasis is on the dipterocarp forests of Malay Peninsula and Borneo, but the whole area from Sri Lanka to Melanesia and Queensland is discussed at least shortly. Topics include forest structure, animals, climate, seasonal cycles, regeneration, silviculture, growth rates and biomass, nutrient cycling, soils, forest formations, man's impact and future. A lot of tree species have been mentioned. There are plenty of black and white photos of adequate quality. An index of plant names, with families they belong to, is included.
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