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Amazonian Rain Forests

Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Carl F. Jordan

    1. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 60)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Carl F. Jordan
      Pages 1-8

  3. Case Studies

    1. Shifting Cultivation

      • Carl F. Jordan
      Pages 9-23

    2. Recovery Following Shifting Cultivation

      • Juan G. Saldarriaga
      Pages 24-33

    3. Shifting Cultivation Where Land is Limited

      • Geoffrey A. J. Scott
      Pages 34-45

    4. Deforestation for Sovereignty Over Remote Frontiers

      • Robert J. Buschbacher
      Pages 46-57

    5. Permanent Plots for Agriculture and Forestry

      • Carl F. Jordan
      Pages 58-75

    6. Plantation Forestry

      • Charles E. Russell
      Pages 76-89

    7. Large-Scale Development in Eastern Amazonia

      • Robert J. Buschbacher, Christopher Uhl, E. A. S. Serrão
      Pages 90-99

    8. Conclusion

      • Carl F. Jordan
      Pages 100-121

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 122-133
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DEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover approximately 5.8 x 10 km (Salati and Vose 1984). Flying over even just part of this basin, one gazes hour after hour upon this seemingly infinite blanket of green. The impression of immen­ sity is similar when viewed from the Amazon River itself, or from its tributar­ ies. From a hammock on the shaded deck of a riverboat, the immensity of the forest presents an incredible monotony as one view of the shoreline blends unnoticeably into another. From both perspectives, the overwhelming reaction to the sea of trees that stretches from horizon to horizon is a sense of the vastness of the rain forest. In September 1985, I got a different impression of the rain forest. Several students and I journeyed in a self-propelled car along the single-track railroad that stretches almost 1000 km from the Carajas iron ore mine in the rain forest of Para State, Brazil, all the way to Sao Luis on the coast (Fig. 1.1).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Carl F. Jordan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Amazonian Rain Forests

  • Book Subtitle: Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery

  • Editors: Carl F. Jordan

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4658-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96397-6Due: 17 December 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9102-2Published: 02 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4658-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 133

  • Topics: Ecology, Agriculture, Forestry

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