Forestry and silviculture

The United Nations has declared 2018-2028 as the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development.

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

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

The XXX Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 1986; and this Volume contains a selection of the Review Lectures which formed part of the Congress programme.

This book provides updated and comprehensive information on the evaluation of the river basin environment, along with its management and conservation.

This book is based on the authors' extensive involvement in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an earth ecosystem with great relevance for climate change studies: the tropical forests.

This book explores microbial symbiosis, with a particular focus on soil microorganisms, highlighting their application in enhancing plant growth and yield.

This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process.

As humans continue to encroach on wildlands, quality and quantity of wildlife habitat decreases before our eyes.

Clonal forestry has come of age.

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

This book proposes strategies for improving the resilience and conservation of temperate forests in South America, such that these forests can provide ecosystem services in a sustainable way.

Temperate forests cover large areas of Europe and perform a number of important functions such as the regulation of energy and matter, production of wood and other resources, and conservation of biodiversity and habitats; they also have special signi?

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management.

This handbook provides an overview of physical, chemical and biological methods used to analyze soils and plant tissue using an ecosystem perspective.

'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.

The aim of this book is quite ambitious: here, we attempt to bridge the gap between soH physicists, agronomists, horticulturists, hydraulic engineers, de- signers, manufacturers and users of drip irrigation systems.

There is not much question that plants are sensitive to air pollution, nor is there doubt that air pollution is affecting forests and agriculture worldwide.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of biofertilizers as an alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

The book is a comprehensive manual of practice for execution of afforestation and tree planting programmes in arid and semi-arid tropics.

Wheat provides over 20% of the calories for the world population of 5.

Forest decline became a matter of public and scientific concern in France in 1983 when conifers in the Vosges mountains were found to exhibit unusual crown deterioration.

Tidal freshwater forested wetlands represent an intriguing and und- studied type of ecosystem in the southeastern United States.

Woody plants belong to various taxonomic groups, which are heterogeneous in morphology, physiology, and geographic distribution.

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

Plants have always occupied a prominent position in the life of every living being.

Central Amazonian floodplain forests are an unique and endangered ecosystem.

In recent years many of the conventional methods of insect control by broad- spectrum synthetic chemicals have come under scrutiny because of their unde- sirable effects on human health and the environment.

Africa is largely dependent on natural resources in its quest to achieve sustainable development goals, with its woodlands and forests known to be among the most exploited ecosystems.

This is a book about bubble prices, and their consequences, in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest from 1979-1984.

Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe.

This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate.

Global climate change requires the development of programs that consider the active restoration of degraded forests and the use of native trees in afforestation to preserve the natural environment.

The idea for this book arose in 1993, after the Free State of Bavaria through its Bayrisches Staatsministerium rur Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen (Bavarian Ministry of Regional Development and the Environment) decided to discontinue both the Bavarian project management (PBWU) for forest decline research and the multidisciplinary field research on the Wank Mountain in the Alps near Garmisch.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

Recent progress in enhancing and refining the performance and properties of wood composites by chemical and thermal modification and the application of smart multi-functional coatings have made them a particular area of interest for researchers.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Genetic engineering is a powerful tool for crop improvement.

The practice of scientific management was introduced into Indian forestry in the late years of the nineteenth century.

The second edition of Mycorrhiza falls into a time period of excep- tionally rapid growth in mycorrhizal research.

While working in the laboratory of Professor Dr.

The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi- vores of the tropical evergreen rain forest.

As the world enters the new millennium, mankind faces a series ofnew prob- lems, many of them created by man himself.