Forestry and silviculture

The twelfth volume of the illustrated lists of Plants of Central Asia (within the People's Republic of China and Mongolia) continues the description of flowering plants and covers the treatment of families Nymphaeaceae, Ceratophyllaceae, Ranunculaceae, Berberidaceae, Menispermaceae.

Mycorrhiza - the symbiosis between plants and fungi - plays a key role in plant life.

Tropical rain forests are increasingly expected to serve for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation amid global climate change and increasing human demands for land.

Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a unique process by means of which a vegetative/somatic plant cell transforms into an embryo.

Considerable activity in the acoustics of wood has occurred since the first edition of this book in 1995.

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

This book focuses on more than 100 years of climatic oscillation in Bengal Duars, a unique foothill landscape of the Eastern Himalaya, to discuss the dynamics of life and livelihoods of forest dependent communities towards climate change related impacts.

This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas.

Saline land is a resource capable of significant production.

Diese bewährte und sehr gut verständliche Einführung in die Biometrie wurde für die Neuauflage überarbeitet und erweitert.

Terrestrial plant systems are an integral part of Earth's land resources.

Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon.

Groundnuts (peanuts) are of great economic importance internationally.

Von der Arbeits gruppe Systemforschung an der Universität Osnabrück wird im Auftrag der International Union of Biologica1 Sciences (IUBS) ein Projekt zur Erstellung von sogenannten Element-Konzentrations­ Katastern in Ökosystemen (ECCE) entwickelt, das alle großen Ökosysteme der Erde einschließen soll.

Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they ever have been.

The current book Managing Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) as An Economic Resource is a culmination of Professor Tewari's work on management of NTFPs in general.

This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water.

This atlas presents macroscopic descriptions, macro cross section pictures, general characteristics and identification keys of 335 wood species currently introduced in the European timber market from all over the world.

Tropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate.

Contributed to by leading experts, this book looks at the history of coppice woodlands, their physical environment, the different management techniques used and their effects on the flora and fauna.

This book focuses on crisis management in forest industry of Russia.

This famous book on botany was published for the first time in 1894 by Eduard Strasburger and his co-workers.

By their powers of reason scientists will be able to extract from nature the answers to their questions.

As remote sensing data and methods have become increasingly complex and varied - and increasingly reliable - so have their uses in forest management.

Techniques for Wildlife Investigations emphasizes the design of field studies and the statistical inferences that can be made from observed changes in animal abundance and populations.

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth.

Dieser Band, in leicht verständlicher Form geschrieben, bildet die Synthese aus 27 Fachgutachten unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, Workshops und eigenen Recherchen der Autoren zum Gesamtkomplex Nachhaltige Land- und Forstwirtschaft.

This book gives a comprehensive overview on the various aspects of Trichoderma, a filamentous fungus ubiquitously present in soil.

Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of specialty areas of forestry, including inventory, remote sensing, information management, modelling and visualization, biometrics, forest and harvest planning, bioeconomics and marketing, and decision science for management.

How do we extend the 'conservation ethic' to include the cultural links between local populations and their physical environments?

Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests.

This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996-2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results.

Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth, largely as a result of human activity.

Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years.

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations.

This atlas presents a concrete tool to identify xylophagous activity by the remains they left in wooded areas in Western Europe.

Life science has experienced a unique level of growth and development in recent times, as has the area of fruit crop regulation.

In keeping with the spirit of an Advanced Series in the Agricultural Sciences, we have attempted to address herein most of the current research areas being used to characterize, describe and manage salt-affected soils.

This book is the first to integrate biological control into a conceptual framework - ecostacking - uniting all aspects of biological control and ecosystem services.

The book is designed with the following objectives: 1.

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth.