Tropical Forestry Handbook

This book provides a cross-section of all outstanding experience in all fields of tropical forestry under a drastically changing environment induced by climate change. It sheds light on the existing know-how and presents it in a concise and efficient way for the scientist and professional in charge...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pancel, Laslo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Köhl, Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Έκδοση:2nd ed. 2016.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Accounting Standards in Forest Valuation General -- Allowable cut in forest growth -- Animal Pests Affecting Tropical Forests -- Articles of the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people related to land rights -- Assessment of forest management performance and chain-of-custody -- Bamboo Harvesting Techniques -- Bio deterioration of Wood General -- Biogeography and Ecology of Tropical Fires General -- Bio refinery of Wood General -- Charcoal and Charcoal Making -- Climate Change in the tropics -- Climate Types of water balance in the tropics General -- Compensation payments for Carbon Fixation (REDD) -- Compensation payments for Ecosystem Services -- Concept of compensation payments and ecosystems -- Concepts and Definitions in Wildlife Management -- Conversion formulas and tables in tropical forestry -- Description, Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem -- Developing and managing a tropical nursery -- Disclosure in Forest Valuation -- Disorders Affecting Tropical Forests -- Ecology of Rangelands -- Economic analysis of deforestation -- Energy Balance and Nutrition of Forest Workers -- Energy Cycle in Tropical Forests -- Examples of Ecological Considerations in Forest Management -- Examples of Forestry Land Evaluation -- Fertilization in Tropical Tree Plantations -- Finishing of Wood -- Fire Management in Tropical Forests -- FLEGT -- Forest Certification Process -- Forest Communities: Reconciling national and international norms and law -- Forest Crime in the Tropics -- Forest Health and Vitality -- Forestry Extension Methods, Channels of Communication -- Forestry Land Use Planning and Management -- Forestry Project Organization General -- General statistics relevant to tropical forestry -- Glued and Composite Wood Products -- Harvest planning in forestry -- Health and Hygiene in Tropical Countries -- Heat Stress in Tropical Forests -- History of Tropical Forestry -- Image Processing of Radar and Lidar in Tropical Forestry -- Impact Monitoring and Evaluation in Watershed Management in the Tropics -- Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Forestry -- Intergovernmental Organizations of Tropical Forestry -- Interpretation of Soil and Foliar Data -- Introduction to Fire Management in Tropical Forests -- Introduction to Forest Law Enforcement -- Introduction to Forest Target Group Indigenous People -- Introduction to Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) -- Land Evaluation and Forest Land Use Planning -- Land Evaluation for Forestry -- Legal Regulations Regarding Forest Reproductive Material -- Machinery and Equipment in Harvesting -- Mangrove Habitat Biology and Forest Ecology -- Motivation and Work Organization in Forest -- Noise and Vibration in Forest -- Nutrient Storage and Mineral Cycling in Tropical Tree Plantations -- Palms -- Pitfalls and Policies for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP)s -- Present Requirements to Forestry Sciences General -- Processes of Soil Formation -- Protected areas as a major tropical forest conservation instrument -- Pulp and Paper -- Radiation and Heat -- Rangeland Productivity -- Rehabilitation with Forestations in the Tropics General -- Safety and Accidents in Forestry General -- Sawmilling -- Seed Collection -- Seed Handling, Storage and Distribution -- Silviculture in Tropical Moist Forests -- Socio-economic and Cultural Factors in Forestry Extension -- Socio-economic functions of forests -- Soil Management Techniques Influencing Tree Growth -- Special Issues of Forest Valuation -- Standards and standard setting procedures of forest certification -- State-of-the-Art of Common Tropical Agroforestry Practices -- Stress Grades and Design Properties for Lumber, Round Timber and Ties -- The Atmospheric Circulation General -- The Production Process in Nursery Management -- The Promise of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and Reality -- The Reproductive Process of Trees -- The Ultimate Challenge to Mankind: Climate Change -- Timber standards based on end use -- Timber trade regulations (Lacy Act, European Timber Regulation, CITES) -- Tools for Tree Species Identification in the Tropics -- Tropical Wildlife Ecology -- Use of Geographical Information Technology in Tropical Forestry -- Use of Wildlings -- Valuation Methods for Biological Assets -- Water balance in the tropical regions -- Wood Fastenings -- Yield Regulation in Forestry -- [Many Other Topics]. 
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