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"An unequaled panorama of the rapidly developing insights of the once unobtainable canopy frontier...where exploration and discovery are at their most exciting...anyone interested in understanding forests can only do so with this valuable book."
- Thomas E. Lovejoy, President, The Heinz Center for Science Economics and the Environment
"A better understanding of forest canopies, their biodiversity and canopy processes is crucial to understanding and addressing many of today's environmental issues..[this volume] is a must-read for all those interested in forest canopies."
-Nigel E. Stork, Rainforest CRC, James Cook University, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, June 2005
"Each chapter is extensively referenced and accompanied by numerous figures and tables...This text is suitable for scientists, students, policy makers, conservationists, and educators."
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This book is an authoritative synthesis of studies in ecology and evolution that promotes a whole-system viewpoint of the world's forests.
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"An unequaled panorama of the rapidly developing insights of the once unobtainable canopy frontier...where exploration and discovery are at their most exciting...anyone interested in understanding forests can only do so with this valuable book."
- Thomas E. Lovejoy, President, The Heinz Center for Science Economics and the Environment
"A better understanding of forest canopies, their biodiversity and canopy processes is crucial to understanding and addressing many of today's environmental issues..[this volume] is a must-read for all those interested in forest canopies."
-Nigel E. Stork, Rainforest CRC, James Cook University, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, June 2005
"Each chapter is extensively referenced and accompanied by numerous figures and tables...This text is suitable for scientists, students, policy makers, conservationists, and educators."
- SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST
Book Description
This book is an authoritative synthesis of studies in ecology and evolution that promotes a whole-system viewpoint of the world's forests.
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The term "canopy" connotes an uppermost layer, a covering for an important person or sacred object, the enclosure over an airplane cockpit, the surface of a parachute, the topmost ornamentation in architecture, or any tent-like covering. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
canopy ecologists, male stratulus, canopy mammals, mistletoe occurrence, terrestrial arthropods are there, canopy anoles, reiterated trunks, foliar units, canopy access techniques, canopy biology, canopy biologists, canopy researchers, epiphytic cyanolichens, leaf arthropods, canopy herbivory, canopy biota, aerial arthropods, lizard removal, bodyweight distributions, neotropical small mammals, other last biotic frontier, canopy access system, forest canopy access, canopy organisms, canopy photosynthesis models Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The term "canopy" connotes an uppermost layer, a covering for an important person or sacred object, the enclosure over an airplane cockpit, the surface of a parachute, the topmost ornamentation in architecture, or any tent-like covering. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
canopy ecologists, male stratulus, canopy mammals, mistletoe occurrence, terrestrial arthropods are there, canopy anoles, reiterated trunks, foliar units, canopy access techniques, canopy biology, canopy biologists, canopy researchers, epiphytic cyanolichens, leaf arthropods, canopy herbivory, canopy biota, aerial arthropods, lizard removal, bodyweight distributions, neotropical small mammals, other last biotic frontier, canopy access system, forest canopy access, canopy organisms, canopy photosynthesis models Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Costa Rica, San Diego, Cambridge University Press, Puerto Rico, North America, Bruce Rinker, Pacific Northwest, University of Chicago Press, Canadian Journal of Botany, New Zealand, United States, American Naturalist, John Wiley, Northwest Science, Cedar Flats, Princeton University Press, British Columbia, Wallaby Creek, Washington State, Ecological Monographs, New Jersey, Barro Colorado Island, Biological Conservation New!
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- It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops by Dr. Margaret D. Lowman on 6 pages
- Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison by Richard B. Primack on page 213, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Applications of Physiological Ecology to Forest Management by J. J. Landsberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Flora of the Rio Guajalito Mountain Rain Forest (Ecuador). by Wilhelm Barthlott on page 22, and page 23
- Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems (Ecological Methods and Concepts) by Simon R. Leather on page 163, and page 184
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