This book presents a timely collection of pioneering work in the study of these diverse and fascinating ecosystems. It consists of facsimiles of papers chosen b
Importance pf tropical forests; characteristics of tropical forests; classification of tropical forests; deforestation in the tropics; management of tropical fo
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that th
Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of stu
This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and