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
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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].