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Project Vesta: Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forestby JS Gould; WL McCaw; NP Cheney; PF Ellis; IK Knight; AL Sullivan
CSIRO Publishing 2008; US$ 25.95Details the comprehensive research project to investigate the behaviour and spread of high-intensity bushfires in dry eucalypt forests. more...
Eucalyptus: The Genus Eucalyptusby John J. W. Coppen
CRC Press 2002; US$ 139.95An invaluable reference for all those with an interest in Eucalyptus - in academia and industry alike, for researchers as well as producers, processors, importers and end users. more...
The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forestby I. M. Turner; Peter S. Ashton; Stephen P. Hubbell; Daniel H. Janzen; Peter H. Raven; P. B. Tomlinson
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 49.00Current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees, with particular emphasis on comparative ecology. more...
Entangled Edensby Candace Slater
University of California Press 2001; US$ 29.95Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widely different groups of people--conquistadors, corporate executives, subsistence farmers --over the centuries. A careful, passionate consideration of one of the most powerful environmental icons of our time, Entangled Edens makes clear that we cannot defend the Amazon's dazzling array of plants and animals without comprehending its equally astonishing human and cultural diversity. Early explorers describe encounters with fearsome warrior women and... more...
Treesby P. A. Thomas
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 45.00A comprehensive introduction to the natural history of trees, presenting information on all aspects of tree biology and ecology in an easy to read and concise text. Fascinating insights into the workings of these everyday plants are uncovered throughout the book, with basic questions tackled in an illuminating way. more...
Ecophysiology of Northern Spruce Species: The Performance of Planted Seedlingsby Steven C. Grossnicke
NRC Research Press 2000; US$ 49.95This book provides foresters with the necessary information to understand the performance of spruce seedlings after being planted on a reforestation site. It was written for an anticipated audience of university students who are taking a regeneration silviculture class, plus foresters and researchers who work with spruce species within forest regeneration programs throughout the world. more...
Valuing Agroforestry Systemsby Janaki R. R Alavalapati; D. Evan Mercer
Springer 2005; US$ 179.00There is a growing interest and need for enhancing economic and policy research in agroforestry. So far, no single reference book provides adequate coverage of applied economic and policy analysis methodologies for agroforestry professionals. This book, written by the leading experts in economics and agroforestry, addresses this need with 14 case studies (covering all the continents of the world) that describe and demonstrate the application of a wide range of cutting edge economic analysis techniques to agroforestry system, policies and projects. more...
The Oil Palmby R. H. V. Corley; P. B. H. Tinker
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 315.00The oil palm is the world's most valuable oil crop. With palm oil production increasing by more than 50% in the last decade of the twentieth century and set to double in the next twenty years, it has never before been so important to understand the history, use and cultivation of this fascinating crop. There have been many new developments since the third edition of The Oil Palm in 1988, particularly in the fields of clonal propagation, agronomy, breeding and molecular genetics. This new edition has been completely rewritten, and is the first book to record and explore these and many other developments. The book traces the origins and progress of the industry, and describes the basic science underlying the physiology, breeding and nutrition... more...
New Forestsby Sadanandan Nambiar; Ian Ferguson
CSIRO Publishing 2005; US$ 64.95Creating new forests for commercial wood production and environmental benefits. more...
The Treeby Colin Tudge
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 11.99There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world—throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe—bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us: how they grow old, how they eat and reproduce, how they talk to one another (and they do), and why they came to exist in the first place. He considers the pitfalls... more...









