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Second Growth
Robin L. Chazdon
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Description for Second Growth
Paperback. With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, this book offers an overview of successional and restoration pathways. It also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests. Num Pages: 472 pages, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables. BIC Classification: RNF; TVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 782.
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating-or second-growth-forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of ... Read more
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating-or second-growth-forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226118079
SKU
V9780226118079
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About Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon is professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut and coeditor of Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology and Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology. She lives in Storrs, CT.
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