书目名称 | Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology | 编辑 | Ariel E. Lugo,Carol Lowe | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Ecological Studies | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Forestry professors used to remind students that, whereas physicians bury their mistakes, foresters die before theirs are noticed. But good institutions live longer than the scientists who contribute to building them, and the half-century of work of the USDA Forest Service‘s Institute of Tropical Forestry (ITF) is in plain view: an unprecedented corpus of accomplishments that would instill pride in any organization. There is scarcely anyone interested in current issues of tropical forestry who would not benefit from a refresher course in ITF‘s findings: its early collaboration with farmers to establish plantations, its successes in what we now call social forestry, its continuous improvement of nursery practices, its screening trials of native species, its development of wood-processing technologies appropriate for developing countries, its thorough analysis of tropical forest function, and its holistic approach toward conservation of endangered species. Fortunately, ITF has a long history of information exchange through teaching; like many others, I got my own start in tropical forest ecology fromjust such a course in Puerto Rico. And long before politicians recognized the global | 出版日期 | Book 1995 | 关键词 | ecology; ecosystem; forest; terrestrial ecosystem; terrestrial ecosystems; tropical forests; tropics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2498-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-7563-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4612-2498-3Series ISSN 0070-8356 Series E-ISSN 2196-971X | issn_series | 0070-8356 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1995 |
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