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Balsam Fir
University of Minnesota Press 1965; US$ 75.00Professors Bakuzis and Hansen, with the assistance of a number of co-authors of individual chapters, present an exhaustive survey of the literature on the balsam fir, providing a coherent picture of the species and its place in nature and forestry practic more...
The Economics of Forest Disturbances
Springer 2008; US$ 199.99Provides a review of both traditional and emerging themes in the economics of natural forest disturbances. This book shows that neo-classical economic principles can be integrated with ecosystem analysis and modern econometric methods to uncover the causes and consequences of natural forest disturbances. more...
Microbial Phosphate Solubilization
Springer 2007; US$ 299.99Sixty specialists from 13 countries met in Salamanca to discuss the problems of high P-unavailability as a soil nutrient for crops, and the hazards of a phosphate input to aquatic habitats from industrial and mining activities. This book is suitable for agronomists, environmentalists, technocrats and administrators. more...
The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99Includes information on the ecology, silviculture and restoration of longleaf pine ecosystems. This book also includes a discussion of the historical, social and political aspects of ecosystem management. It is useful for students, land managers, ecologists, private landowners, government agencies, consultants and the forest products industry. more...
Saving Forests, Protecting People?
AltaMira Press 2009; US$ 33.99By examining the connections among local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes, Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet. more...
Life in the Soil
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 18.00Leonardo da Vinci once mused that “we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot,” an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions... more...
Parallel Coordinates
Springer 2009; US$ 64.99This is one book that can genuinely be said to be straight from the horse?s mouth. Written by the originator of the technique, it examines parallel coordinates as the leading methodology for multidimensional visualization. Starting from geometric foundations, this is the first systematic and rigorous exposition of the methodology's mathematical... more...
Biology of Soil Science
Oxford Book Co. 2009; US$ 50.00Biology of Soil Science is an important branch of agriculture which deals with studies of different areas like soil physics; soil chemistry; soil fertility and plant nutrition; soil survey, genesis and classification, soil mineralogy, etc. it is, therefore, essential that this valuable natural resource is understood and conserved properly for sustained... more...
Non-Timber Forest Products of India
GeneTech Books 2008; US$ 50.00Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) can be defined as all goods derived from forest and their biomass for commercial and industrial use, which can be substainably extracted from a forest ecosystem in quantities and in such ways, that it does not downgrade the plant communities, basic reproductive function. For most recorded history, people have valued... more...
Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems
Springer 2009; US$ 249.99This volume compiles the results of long-term observations of site properties and ecosystem processes for three beech forests. Representing a spectrum of common beech forest sites in Central Europe, they receive similar atmospheric inputs and are growing under similar climatic conditions, but differ in their soil acidity. Significant differences were... more...









