Forestry and silviculture

This book examines forest pathology and entomology addressing plant pathogens in forest ecosystems, classification of forest diseases, and common diseases in forest trees.

This book synthesizes knowledge on the physiology and ecology of pines (Pinus spp.

This book synthesizes knowledge on the physiology and ecology of pines (Pinus spp.

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) represents one of the best-studied metabolic examples of an ecological adaptation to environmental stress.

In a world of increasing atmospheric CO2, there is intensified interest in the ecophysiology of photosynthesis and increasing attention is being given to carbon exchange and storage in natural ecosystems.

The importance of irrigation in the world's agriculture is rapidly increasing.

The unsaturated zone is the medium through which pollutants move from the soil surface to groundwater.

A number of well-known forests have been the object of studies by ecological teams.

Photochemical oxidants are secondary air pollutants formed under the influence of sunlight by complex photochemical reactions in air which contains nitrogen oxides and reactive hydrocarbons as precursors.

The idea for this book arose in 1993, after the Free State of Bavaria through its Bayrisches Staatsministerium rur Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen (Bavarian Ministry of Regional Development and the Environment) decided to discontinue both the Bavarian project management (PBWU) for forest decline research and the multidisciplinary field research on the Wank Mountain in the Alps near Garmisch.

Clusia is the only dicotyledonous tree genus with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), and in some cases all variants of CAM can be expressed in one given species.

Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch.

This second volume on Himalayan forests provides critical insights into Himalayan forests' response to the dual pressures of anthropogenic and natural stressors during the unprecedented environmental change.

This second volume on Himalayan forests provides critical insights into Himalayan forests' response to the dual pressures of anthropogenic and natural stressors during the unprecedented environmental change.

This first volume on Himalayan forests discusses the synthesis of Himalayan forest ecosystems.

This first volume on Himalayan forests discusses the synthesis of Himalayan forest ecosystems.

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

This book provides insights into the ecology, cultivation and sustainable management of forest-based orchids.

This book provides insights into the ecology, cultivation and sustainable management of forest-based orchids.

The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life.

This groundbreaking book presents an innovative predictive concept in geographical ecology that reveals local mechanisms of global environmental changes.

This groundbreaking book presents an innovative predictive concept in geographical ecology that reveals local mechanisms of global environmental changes.

This volume in the Forestry Sciences book series examines Eucalyptus plantation development in Southeast Asia, focusing on how innovative technologies can help balance socio-economic benefits with environmental sustainability.

This volume in the Forestry Sciences book series examines Eucalyptus plantation development in Southeast Asia, focusing on how innovative technologies can help balance socio-economic benefits with environmental sustainability.

Highlighting new technologies, Remote Sensing of Natural Resources explores advanced remote sensing systems and algorithms for image processing, enhancement, feature extraction, data fusion, image classification, image-based modeling, image-based sampling design, map accuracy assessment and quality control.

This book provides systematic treatment of agrostology and agroforestry systems with emphasis on Indian conditions.

The Southern Forest: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture examines the forests of the South, providing a comprehensive description of the region from which most of the nation's wood for housing and paper will be grown and harvested in the future.

Wildfires pose a persistent global challenge, affecting ecosystems, human societies, and the climate.

Written by renowned experts in the field, Sampling Strategies for Natural Resources and the Environment covers the sampling techniques used in ecology, forestry, environmental science, and natural resources.

This book provides systematic treatment of agrostology and agroforestry systems with emphasis on Indian conditions.

The book is an attempt to examine the phenomena of community participation, sustainable forest management and sustainable development with reference to the forest policies, forest acts and other relevant documents of different countries.

Agroforestry practices are traditional, very old, and very specific to the local social, economic and agroecological conditions.

The book is an attempt to examine the phenomena of community participation, sustainable forest management and sustainable development with reference to the forest policies, forest acts and other relevant documents of different countries.

Agroforestry practices are traditional, very old, and very specific to the local social, economic and agroecological conditions.

In the course of evolution, a great variety of root systems have learned to overcome the many physical, biochemical and biological problems brought about by soil.

Ex situ preservation of germplasm for higher plant species has been accom- plished using either seeds or clones, but storage of these under typical condi- tions does not provide the extreme longevities that are needed to minimize risk of loss.

In recent years many of the conventional methods of insect control by broad- spectrum synthetic chemicals have come under scrutiny because of their unde- sirable effects on human health and the environment.

Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human activities.

In the last half century, because of the raising world population and because of the many environmental issues posed by the industrialization, the amount of arable land per person has declined from 0.

Forest road operations include all the activities to plan, design, construct, and maintain the infrastructure needed to move forest products from the ro- side to the mill or port destination.

This book is intended to provide information on fundamental genetic processes in tropical forests.

Each tree ring contains an image of the time when the ring formed, projected onto the ring's size, structure, and composition.

Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to local human populations.

Manipulation of plant architecture is regarded as a new and promising issue in plant biotechnology.

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.

The storage of carbon in forest ecosystems has received special attention in the Kyoto protocol of the Climate Convention, which attempts to equilibrate fossil fuel emissions with biological sinks.

Nuclides.

Plant microtubules are key elements of cell growth, division and morphogenesis.