Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity?

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brockerhoff, Eckehard G. (Editor), Jactel, Hervé (Editor), Parrotta, John A. (Editor), Quine, Christopher P. (Editor), Sayer, Jeffrey (Editor), Hawksworth, David L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, 9
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Life Sciences.

This book brings together a selection of original research articles that address biodiversity and conservation in plantation forests. Although such forests are perhaps the ‘poor cousins’ of the species richer natural and semi-natural forests, they can still make a significant contribution to biodive...