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The Ecology of Tropical Forest Tree Seedlings (Progress in Obstetric and Gynecological Sonography Series) [Hardcover]

M.D. Swaine (Editor)

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Publication Date: August 15, 1996 | ISBN-10: 1850706875 | ISBN-13: 978-1850706878 | Edition: 1

This is a detailed technical reference text on the ecology of tropical forest tree seedlings, especially concerning the exploitation of natural forests and production of tropical hardwood timber. It contains 13 original contributions by world-class experts presenting new data and research along with reviews and analyses on tropical forest tree seedling demography, morphology, and physiology, and on their responses to the availability of resources such as light, nutrients, and water.

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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (August 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1850706875
ISBN-13: 978-1850706878
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,359,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The torrent of articles on forest regeneration, so-called 'gap-phase dynamics', continues unabated. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cotyledon functional morphology, photosynthetic cotyledons, cotyledon thickness, seedling types, cotyledon functional morphologies, tagged seedlings, tropical forest tree seedlings, neotropical tree seedlings, partition tropical rain forest gaps, rain forest tree seedlings, tropical rain forest tree species, seed size classes, time until germination, seedling architecture, forestry attention, adinandra belukar, natural forest soils, photosynthetic differentiation, soils collectively, tropical seedlings, seedling traits, cent full sunlight, storage cotyledons, live seedlings, dipterocarp seedlings

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Journal of Ecology, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Bukit Timah, Barro Colorado Island, Functional Ecology, Costa Rica, Ecology of Tropical Forest Tree Seedlings, New Phytologist, Malaysian Forester, New York, Puerto Rico, Cambridge University Press, Peninsular Malaysia, Sri Lanka, American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, Ecological Monographs, Los Tuxtlas, Academic Press, Living Systems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, West African, American Journal of Botany, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, Light Red Merantis

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This book cites 70 books:

Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants by K.S. Bawa on 7 pages
Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management (Special Publication Number 2 of the British Ecological Society) by Stephen L. Sutton on 6 pages
Rain Forest Regeneration and Management (Advances in Gynecology and Obstetrics Series) by A. G�mez-Pompa on 6 pages
Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (Tasks for Vegetation Science) by Alejandro Estrada on 5 pages
Tropical Trees as Living Systems by P. B. Tomlinson on 4 pages

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Agro-Ecological Farming Systems in China (Man and the Biosphere Series) by Wenhua Li in Front Matter
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Land-Use Changes and Their Environmental Impact in Rural Areas in Europe by J. Baudry in Front Matter
The Venice Lagoon Ecosystem: Inputs and Interactions Between Land and Sea by P. Lasserre in Front Matter
Population and Environment in Arid Regions (Man and the Biosphere Series) by J. Clarke in Front Matter

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