Forestry and silviculture

The role and perception of forests in tropical areas has changed drastically during the last half century.

Dendrochronology and wood anatomy developed for decades as two independent scientific fields.

A continuous development in plant biotechnology including gene technology has been observable during the past 20 years.

Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest.

When we talk about forests, we talk about 30% of our planet's land surface 6 area.

A dynamic domestic market is now-a-days becoming an important factor in attracting foreign investments, and many emerging economies harbour bustling urban markets short of high-quality forest products.

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.

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

A dynamic domestic market is now-a-days becoming an important factor in attracting foreign investments, and many emerging economies harbour bustling urban markets short of high-quality forest products.

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.

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

Biology of the Fungal Cell offers a select sampling of current knowledge and direction of fundamental research into the cellular structure, morphogenesis and development of fungi.

Roots represent half of the plant body - and arguably the more interesting half.

Successful release of new and better crop varieties increasingly requires genomics and molecular biology.

** A Winner of the Woodland Books of the Year Award **In a stressful, chaotic world, many of us are turning to nature for a sense of serenity and happiness.

Ben Law's incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly Nut Wood.

'Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife.

The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.

El actual modelo forestal instaurado desde comienzos de la dictadura, cuyas externalidades negativas en el ámbito social y del medio ambiente vienen generando estragos en el sector forestal, ya no da para más.

The long-term storage and maintenance of viable plant cells and organs is an area of active concern across the range of pure and applied plant sciences.

This book has a similar subject content to the author's previous Flow in Wood but with substantial updating due to the abundance of research in the wood science field since 1971.

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.

This book provides an overview of the complex challenges and opportunities related to forest-based rural development in the tropics and subtropics.

Plants use resources, i.

The aim of this book is to improve the understanding of forest dynamics and the sustainable management of forest ecosystems.

The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and botany.

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.

After years of technological development and its important achievements to make our life easier and more comfortable, human society is going to face one of the most difficult challenges of the last century: to stabilize the concentra- tion levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to prevent harmful effects on the climate system.

This book presents insights from the International Conference on Climate Change Mitigation and Environmental Amelioration through Plants and Other Sustainable Practices.

This book presents insights from the International Conference on Climate Change Mitigation and Environmental Amelioration through Plants and Other Sustainable Practices.

The idea for this book arose from what we perceived as the need for an up-to-date guide to class exercises in plant virology.

In terrestrial ecosystems, soil microorganisms and soil animals are essential for litter degradation, soil formation and the availability of nutrients and trace elements.

Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments.

Experts in herbicide research and development - chemists and plant physiologists -, have written 15 chapters that review all aspects pertinent to peroxidizing herbicides, compounds of topical interest since extremely low use rates ensure high environmental safety.

Forest ecosystems are characterized by a steady change in their structure of function.

RADIOACTIVITY - RADIONUCLIDES - RADIATION is suitable for a general audience interested in topical environmental and human health radiological issues such as radiation exposure in aircraft, food sterilisation, nuclear medicine, radon gas, radiation dispersion devices ("e;dirty bombs"e;).

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.

We shall limit our observations to the conditions in natural ecosystems, since it would be beyond the scope of this book to embark upon a consideration of secondary, man-made ecosystems.

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997.

Harvesting includes all the activities to fell trees and remove them from the forest to the roadside for loading and transport from the forest.

This book bridges the gap between research and application providing an up-to-date overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber.

Plantation forests are grown to supply wood and to provide environmental benefits, such as waste disposal, rehabilitation of degraded sites, enhancement of regional biodiversity and reduction of logging in native forests.

In general, trees are viewed as admired symbolic individuals, producing rec- ational, spiritual and emotional rejuvenation.

This book is not concerned directly with wood identification, although ability to recognize the wood features discussed in the preceding chapters is essential for work in wood identification.

The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.

This volume of Managing Forest Ecosystems addresses the urgent challenge of managing temperate forests under accelerating climate change.

This volume of Managing Forest Ecosystems addresses the urgent challenge of managing temperate forests under accelerating climate change.

Situated within the broadly understood subfield of environmental memory studies, this book explores Israeli forests as spaces of commemoration.