Forestry and silviculture

The impetus for this book came from numerous requests by public and private agencies and citizens for information regarding the human health effects of pes- ticide exposures.

Mangroves are salt-adapted plants that are found along many of the world's tropical and sub-tropical coastlines.

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

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

In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources.

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide.

This work is a comprehensive collection of articles that cover aspects of cell wall research in the genomic era.

Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives.

This volume of Advances in Microbial Ecology marks a change in the editor- ship of the series.

The collaborative orco-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized governance of natural resources.

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

Unlike connotations such as greenhouse effect.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of all relevant elements in topography and their practical application.

By way of a summary of all the data collected by the mapping teams, I will review what is entered on each of the data sheets.

The Acid Rain 2000 Conference in Tsukuba, Japan, held 10-16 December 2000, was the sixth such conference in the series, starting with Columbus, Ohio, USA, in 1975, and including Sandefjord, Norway, in 1980, Muskoka, Canada, in 1985, Glasgow, UK, in 1990, and Goteborg, Sweden, in 1995.

In this volume 19 leading experts offer a timely and coherent overview of the fundamental principles of ecosystem science.

Conceived with the aim of sorting fact from fiction over genetically modified (GM) crops, this book brings together the knowledge of 30 specialists in the field of transgenic plants.

This book provides a taxonomic account of one of the largest genera of Leguminosae and the largest in the Central Asian flora, genus Oxytropis DC.

Invasion of non-native plant species, which has a significant impact on the earth's ecosystems, has greatly increased in recent years due to expanding trade and transport among different countries.

Forest canopies not only support high terrestrial biodiversity but also represent a critical interface between the atmosphere and the earth.

The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century.

Die mikroskopische Diagnostik pflanzlicher Produkte ist mit diesem übersichtlichen Manual leicht durchzuführen.

World population is increasing at an alarming rate and this has resulted in increasing tremendously the demand for tree products such as wood for construction materials, fuel and paper, fruits, oils and medicines etc.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

This Monograph explains the statistical theory behind the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data collection and compares different methods for modelling and inventory design.

This book provides complete, comprehensive, and broad subject-based reviews for students, teachers, researchers, policymakers, conservationists, and NGOs interested in the biodiversity and conservation of woody plants.

Extinction of species has alarmingly increased in recent decades due to anthropogenic activities, natural calamities and climate change.

Environmental Data Analysis is an introductory statistics textbook for environmental science.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

Rosaceae, one of the largest of angiosperms is represented in Siberian flora by 32 genera, comprising 214 species.

"e;Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnisning mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light"e;.

This book won the 2023 The Wildlife Society Publication Award in the authored book category.

This book, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IX, like the previous eight volumes published in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, and 1995, is unique in its approach.

In the early seventies, scientists in Israel and The Netherlands started a cooperative project on actual and potential production under semi-arid conditions.

In the second edition of this book, the origin, upkeep and latex harvest from the Hevea rubber tree are dealt with succinctly.

The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State University.

Demand for timber and fibre continues to grow and is being met by increased reliance on plantation forestry.

From the research results and discussions presented in this book it becomes clear that a profound understanding of the various interrelationships of the nutritional aspects allows the implementation of specific management strategies to improve stability and productivity of forest ecosystems.

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.

Rice is the most important cereal crop which feeds more than half the population of the world.

Biotechnological methods are opening new ways in plant breeding.

This volume of the illustrated lists of plants of Central Asia (within the People?

Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development programme in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal.