Forestry and silviculture

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.

Compared with forces occurring in soil mechanics problems in civil engineering, the forces that are applied to soil in farming operations generally have a short duration, less than a few seconds, a small loaded area, no more than a few square decimeters, and small intensities, 10 bar being a high value.

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.

Forestry professors used to remind students that, whereas physicians bury their mistakes, foresters die before theirs are noticed.

Charles E.

This book looks at significant current grassland problems and issues, and provides an insight into grassland productivity in diverse areas of the world, with their various production systems.

The edited volume brings out a comprehensive collection of information relevant to wild food plants, their importance for global sustainable food security, future-readiness, and resilient agriculture.

This seris keeps scientists and advanced studentsspecialized on a particular subject informed of the latestdevelopments and results in all different areas of botany.

The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting.

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

This book presents research on landscape ecology and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

The change in greenhouse operation and technology in the last 20 years has been unprecedented.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) attempts to address climate change from one angle - by paying developing countries to slow or stop deforestation and forest degradation.

This is the fourth updated and revised edition of a well-received book that emphasises on fungal diversity, plant productivity and sustainability.

Within the extreme diversity of aquatic and terrestrial plant genera, each has characteristic cell wall forms.

We are happy to introduce the Handbook of Charcoal-Making, a comprehensive survey written by a competent expert with international experience.

After UNCED (United Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, July 1992), a second edition of Desertification was necessary.

The biotechnological advances of recent years have put us on the brink of unprecedented gains in animal productivity.

In this comprehensive and stimulating text and reference, the authors have succeeded in combining experimental data with current hypotheses and theories to explain the complex physiological functions of plants.

This book explains several basic concepts of forests and forestry research like social distancing of trees, solitary trees, green infrastructure of trees including typical forest stands like pocket forests, forgotten forests, community forests, and social forestry from one forest stand to another scattered in the districts of West Bengal.

This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management.

Trees are a major component of the biosphere and have played an important part in the world's history and culture.

Complete with information on buying and selling woods, useful contact addresses and a glossary of terms, Caring for Small Woods will prove the indispensable handbook.

Non-timber forest products (NTFP) hold economic and cultural signi?

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

In Pinus: Growth, Distribution and Uses, analyses of the current state of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.

An introductory discussion of basic chromosome structure andfunction preceeds the main text on the application ofcytogenetic approaches to the analysis of the manipulationof both the genetic make-up and the genetic transmissionsystem of plant breeding material.

Integrated control of pests was practiced early in this century, well before anyone thought to call it "e;integrated control"e; or, still later, "e;integrated pest management"e; (IPM), which is the subject of this book by Mary Louise Flint and the late Robert van den Bosch.

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

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences.

The world population in 1930 was 2 billion.

The book is a civil engineering handbook on winch and cable systems.

With the ever decreasing vegetation cover in India, the study offorest elements from evolutionary view point becomes imperative.

Big-Leaf Mahogany is the most important commercial timber species of the tropics.

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

This volume has been produced for the XI 11th EUCARPIA Congress.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The first international congress for ecology took place in 1974 in The Hague, its central theme being "e;Unifying Concepts in Ecology"e;.

This book systematically and comprehensively introduces concepts, theories, principles, and applications of Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging spectral techniques and TIR remote sensing.

Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America.

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes.

Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood products.

This user-friendly book introduces biochar to potential users in the professional sphere.

Rhizobia are bacteria which inhabit the roots of plants in the pea family and "e;fix"e; atmospheric nitrogen for plant growth.

Ivermectin and abamectin, members of the avermectin family of compounds, were introduced to the market in the 1980's as a veterinary antiparasitic drug and agricultural pesticide, respectively.

This book presents the latest information on tropical tree physiology, making it a valuable research tool for a wide variety of researchers.

Timber!

This book comprehensively describes the major ecosystem services in dryland environments that are provided by typical land use, including forestland, grassland and farmland, using the Loess Plateau, Northwest China as an example.

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations.