Forestry and silviculture

This book provides an overview of how boreal and temperate tree species have adapted their annual development cycle to the seasonally varying climatic conditions.

This book presents a synopsis, with an innovative approach, of abundance, types and conditions of work performed in the tropical plantation and natural forests.

This new volume addresses the burning issues of the impact of climate change, the alteration of environmental quality, and subsequent mitigation and adaptation strategies through various agroecosystem practices, primarily in agroforestry.

Advances in basic biological research have proceeded rapidly in recent years.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Environmental Sciences Division initiated the Walker Branch Watershed Project on the Oak Ridge Reservation in east Tennessee in 1967, with the support of the U.

This book focuses on drylands such as arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas where they form the main part of ecosystems, e.

In Law by Night Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller asks what we can learn about modern law and its authority by understanding how it operates in the dark of night.

Following in the footsteps of the successful first edition, Functional Plant Ecology, Second Edition remains the most authoritative resource in this multidisciplinary field.

Traditionally, intercellular communication and the regulation of biological functions of the body have been considered the role of two major and distinct systems: the nervous system and the endocrine system.

Planted forests, from irrigated eucalypts in Brazil to Douglas-fir seedlings in the mountains of Oregon, are described and discussed by international experts.

Trees are one of the dominant features of our existence on earth and play a fundamental role in the environment.

This book explores spatiotemporal analysis and impact assessment of agricultural drought in China and investigates the correlation coefficient between meteorological drought and agricultural drought.

Light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, is an advanced active remote sensing technology developed in the last 30 years to measure variable distances to the Earth.

Climate change and human activities are impacting the environment around the world and there is a great need to update our knowledge of natural resources in order to sustain the livelihoods of rural communities and urban dwellers.

The presence of brush in rangeland environments continually tops the list of priority issues among landowners, and not just in Texas.

This volume contains a solid body of the current state of knowledge on the various themes and activities in agroforestry worldwide.

Andean dry forest ecosystems are threatened by deforestation and unsustainable land use methods.

The production of doubled haploids has become a necessary tool in advanced plant breeding institutes and commercial companies for breeding many crop species.

Large numbers of tropical trees from natural forests or plantation forest are available for human consumption and management.

The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors are the cornerstone of industries that produce food, fiber, and biofuel.

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 builds on existing work exploring succession, disturbance ecology, and the interface between geophysical and biological systems in the aftermath of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St.

This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective.

There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries.

Bamboo is considered one of the most sustainable and versatile building materials, driving the development of multiple techniques for its study and utilization.

Es ist höchste Zeit, daß die Diskussion um die künftige Energieversorgung wieder an Sachlichkeit gewinnt.

Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability, Volume 2: Insight Towards Management, Conservation and Ecosystem Services brings an interdisciplinary perspective to solving complex problems in sustainability, utilizing the latest research and technologies, and includes case studies that emphasize the applications of remote sensing, GIS, and image processing for addressing the current state and future needs to achieve sustainability.

Attempting to collect, sort out, comment on and summarize from available literature the relevant information dealing with a specific problem is always a difficult task which necessarily involves sub- jective choices and implies a considerable risk of errors and omis- sions.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949there has been a rapid advance in climatology in China.

An integrated view of the current and emerging methods and concepts applied in soil carbon research.

Across the continental United States, one can identify 20 distinct forest cover types.

Providing a wealth of in-depth knowledge of forest ecosystems, this new volume explores a collection of important topics on forest community dynamics.

In response to enormous recent advances, particularly in molecular biology, the authors have revised their warmly received work.

Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions.

This book discusses the reality of implementing sustainable forest management measures.

This book arose from a meeting held at the University of Washington, Seattle, in July of 1986.

The tomato is commercially important throughout the world both for the fresh fruit market and the processed food industries.

There are many good books in the market dealing with the subject of allelopathy.

This book provides a series of exercises of various types covering matters of hydrology and watershed management.

Almost half of all life on earth may exist in the world's forest canopies.

When we consider the main object of forestry, the tree, it immediately becomes clear why experimental population geneticists have been so hesitant in making this object a primary concern of their research.

This book contributes significantly to the international literature by bringing forth a novel and comprehensive exploration of urban resilience in the face of climate change and environmental pollution.