Forestry and silviculture

Biologists ask how the growth, development and behaviour of organisms happen, how these processes are co-ordinated and how they are regulated by the environment.

Wood Chemistry, Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition, examines the basic principles of wood chemistry and its potential applications to pulping and papermaking, wood and wood waste utilization, pulping by-products for production of chemicals and energy, and biomass conversion.

The papers in this book were 'in a preliminary version' presented at an international con- ference May 21-25, 2002 in Gilleleje, Denmark.

In this comprehensive book, the critical components of the European landscape - forest, parkland, and other grazed landscapes with trees are addressed.

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).

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Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment.

If I had to nominate an area of food production in which science has played a major role in addressing product quality to meet market needs I would not pass by the intimate rela- tionship of cereaI chemistry with cereaI plant breeding programs.

Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel.

This edited book covers all aspects of wood degradation from its formation and growing in trees to its end usages when it is put into human usage.

The Dipterocarp forests of South-East Asia constitute a dominant component of the world's tropical forests.

Private sector delivery of state services is increasingly common worldwide, and state forest plantation management is no exception.

Natural forests with thousands of years of ecological continuity are unrivalled as the treasure store of terrestrial biodiversity on Earth.

The Monograph deals with the conception, planning, implementation, results and conclusions of the International Witches' Broom Project (IWBP), which was set up in 1985 with the aim of producing an economic management system for witches' broom disease of cocoa.

As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city.

Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis plays a major role in biodiversity and stability of ecosystems in tropical forests.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis on social, economic, and political issues to understand why forests in the Demacratic People's Repblican of Korean have been so severely deforested.

The long-term storage and maintenance of viable plant cells and organs is an area of active concern across the range of pure and applied plant sciences.

This book is not concerned directly with wood identification, although ability to recognize the wood features discussed in the preceding chapters is essential for work in wood identification.

The Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) in Minnesota serves as a living laboratory and provides scientists with a fundamental understanding of peatland hydrology, acid rain impacts, nutrient and carbon cycling, trace gas emissions, and controls on mercury transport in boreal watersheds.

The first edition of this book was the first to provide an integrated description of sap ascension from an anatomical and functional point of view.

This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

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Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives.

The past two decades have seen rapid advances in the technology used to produce pot plants.

The plant fossil record provides evidence that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed and experienced a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene.

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Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it.

When we originally published Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem in 1977, the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES) had been in existence for 14 years, and we included data through 1974, or a biogeo- chemical record of 11 years.

This book is about the resilience of silvo-pastoral systems now, and in the future.

If one were forced to use a single key word to describe the decade of the 1980's, a very prominent one would be "e;technology.

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This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures.

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While working in the laboratory of Professor Dr.

This title aims to provide introductory and concluding surveys of the subject of farms, trees and farmers.

Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

Part A and Part B of the fifth of twelve volumes of The Mycota deal with the mechanisms of interactions between fungi and plants and consider pathogenic as well as mutualistic associations.

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.

Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives.

This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management.

This book in two volumes, and with a foreword by the renowned Professor M.

This book brings together the molecular aspects of the pathogenesis of entomopathogenic fungi, various aspects of mycoinsecticide development, and regulatory aspects to highlight the immense contribution of the agricultural sector.

Soil is formed from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks-processes described historically because they involve eons of time-by glaciation, and by wind and water transport of soil materials, later deposited in deltas and loessial planes.

The book brings together research topics having a broad focus on human and climate change impacts on the terrestrial ecosystems in the tropics in general and more specifically from the most significant and vulnerable Himalayan ecosystem.

For about 40 years 1 have been engaged in timberline research.