I. M. Turner

Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and which may also lead to a workable ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rain-forest community and making it more amenable to analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511032424
• Artikelnr.: 38206888

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The growing tree
3. Tree performance
4. Reproductive biology
5. Seeds and seedlings
6. Classificatory systems for tropical trees
Bibliography
Index.