Forestry and silviculture

All students, practitioners and researchers in forestry and related disciplines need a good grounding in statistics and probability.

Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange.

Forest ecosystems represent a major type ofland use in Germanyand in Europe.

The book collects a selection of the papers presented at the meeting held in the context of the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD).

change is simply described by the rate of income and rate of loss.

This volume explores current knowledge and methods used to study soil organisms and to attribute their activity to wider ecosystem functions.

This new volume emphasizes the drastic quantitative and qualitative transformation of our surrounding environment and looks at bioresource management and the tools needed to manageenvironmental stresses.

In the last half decade since sustainable development became a serious objective, what have we achieved?

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict.

This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies.

This book addresses current global and regional issues concerning the world's forests, societies and the environment from an independent and non-governmental point of view.

The book provides an up-to-date account of mangrove forests from Asia, together with restoration techniques, and the management requirements of these ecosystems to ensure their sustainability and conservation.

Because of the great variety of problems which this genus presents to biologists, Oenothera belongs to the best-known genera of plants not used economically.

As the worldwide human population explodes and trade becomes increasingly globalized, the transboundary movement of plant species from their place of origin to foreign regions is escalating and expected to experience continued growth in the coming decades.

As the world population increases, there is increasingcompetition for waterquantity as well as quality.

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.

At the end of the 1970s, when signs of destabilization of forests became visible in Eu- rope on a large scale, it soon became obvious that the syndrome called "e;forest de- cline"e; was caused by a network of interrelated factors of abiotic and biotic origin.

The world's forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and with disastrous consequences.

Management of forests need to be widely discussed and better understood.

This textbook aims to describe the role of minerals in plant life cycle; how these nutrients are absorbed, distributed, stored; what functions each mineral plays and the disorders that their excess or absence may cause.

​In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überwachen die Behörden der Länder die Einhaltung der Vorschriften, die für das Inverkehrbringen und die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln gelten.

Bio-based materials, including those containing wood, will become increasingly important as we move to a bio-based economy.

Outstanding work has been done in forestry research in India in the past now a history of more than a century.

Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change.

Get cutting-edge agroforestry research and dataDeforestation and the rampant use of fossil fuels are major contributors to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and are enormous influences on global warming.

This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia.

Forest Fungi: Biodiversity, Conservation, Mycoforestry and Biotechnology explores sustainable option aspects of forest fungal research, from the selection of hosting plants, isolation, identification, fermentation, identification of secondary metabolites, omics-tools for better understanding the plant-fungus Interactions.

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of products and processes in forest science.

When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment.

Agroforestry is a land use system that allows for the concurrent production of trees and agricultural crops and/or animals from the same piece of land.

Provided here are both underlying theory and recent resultsconcerning the propagation and use of clones in research andin production forestry.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

Cut and come again forestry - reviving the ancient practice of resprout silviculture to power local woodland-based economies.

Large areas of the warm, humid tropics in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa are hilly or mountainous.

How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

The 12th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances was held from 26th to 31st August 1985 in Heidelberg, F.

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.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

Large scale cultivation of macrofungi is possible with fermentation, using easily accessible lignocellulosic agricultural residues utilising economical methods to generate substantial biomass, food and biofuels.

This book presents various aspects of agroforestry research and development, as well as the latest trends in degraded landscape management.

This book transfers the newest service research concepts, such as value co-creation, to family forestry context.

It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services beyond beautifying cities.

By providing multiple economic goods and ecosystem services, Latin American forests play a key role in the environmental, social and economic welfare of the region's countries.

This volume highlights the plant life of Nepal, which accounts for 20% of the Himalayan biodiversity.

Agrochemical products and adjuvants are of vital importance in agriculture, to protect food and fibre crops from weeds, insect pests and diseases, in order to feed and clothe the growing world population.

The anther tapetum, present in all land plants, is a highly specialized, transient tissue surrounding the (micro-)spores and/or pollen grains during their development.

Discover new approaches to promote a viable forest industry while protecting non-timber values!