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Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Ariel E. Lugo

    1. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Río Piedras, USA

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  2. Carol Lowe

    1. Southern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, New Orleans, USA

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 112)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Problem and Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tropical Forests: Their Future and Our Future

      • Ariel E. Lugo
      Pages 3-17

    3. The Status of Tropical Forests

      • J. P. Lanly
      Pages 18-32

    4. A Forest Research Institution in the West Indies: The First 50 Years

      • Frank H. Wadsworth
      Pages 33-56

  3. Long-Term Ecological Research in Puerto Rico

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Ecosystem-Level Properties of the Luquillo Exerpimental Forest with Emphasis on the Tabonuco Forest

      • Ariel E. Lugo, F. N. Scatena
      Pages 59-108

    3. The Colorado and Dwarf Forests of Puerto Rico’s Luquillo Mountains

      • Peter L. Weaver
      Pages 109-141

    4. Structure, Succession, and Soil Chemistry of Palm Forests in the Luquillo Experimental Forest

      • Ariel E. Lugo, Albert Bokkestijn, F. N. Scatena
      Pages 142-177

    5. The Dry Forests of Puerto Rico’s South Coast

      • Peter G. Murphy, Ariel E. Lugo, Alice J. Murphy, Daniel C. Nepstad
      Pages 178-209

    6. Forest Plantations in Puerto Rico

      • John K. Francis
      Pages 210-223

    7. A Review of the Population Dynamics of Selected Tree Species in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

      • J. Frank McCormick
      Pages 224-257

    8. Recovery of a Tropical Forest after Gamma Irradiation: A 23-Year Chronicle

      • Charlotte M. Taylor, Susan Silander, Robert B. Waide, William J. Pfeiffer
      Pages 258-285

  4. Research Areas That Require Increased Focus in the Tropics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
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    2. Physiological Ecology of Trees and Application to Forest Management

      • Ernesto Medina
      Pages 289-307

    3. Mineral Nutrition and Soil Fertility in Tropical Rain Forests

      • P. J. Grubb
      Pages 308-330

    4. Wildlife in Managed Tropical Forests: A Neotropical Perspective

      • John Terborgh
      Pages 331-342

    5. Tropical Forest Systems and the Human Economy

      • Howard T. Odum
      Pages 343-393

  5. Direction for Future Research in Tropical Forests

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 395-395
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    2. Perspectives in Tropical Rain Forest Research

      • T. C. Whitmore
      Pages 397-407
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About this book

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 importance of tropical forestry, the ITF staff served actively as ambassadors of the discipline, visiting tropical coun­ tries everywhere to learn and, when invited to do so, to help solve local problems. It is a general principle of biogeography that species' turnover rates on islands are higher than those on continents. Inevitably, the same is true of scientists assigned to work on islands.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Río Piedras, USA

    Ariel E. Lugo

  • Southern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, New Orleans, USA

    Carol Lowe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology

  • Editors: Ariel E. Lugo, Carol Lowe

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2498-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7563-3Published: 16 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2498-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 466

  • Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation, Ecology

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