Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests A Practitioner's Guide to Forest Genetics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wickneswari, Ratnam (Editor), Cannon, Chuck (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, 2
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Forestry management.; Trees.; Plant genetics.; Life Sciences.; Forestry Management.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Tree Biology.

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees and how management systems in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Forest management systems in Southeast Asia
• Biogeographic history of Southeast Asian forests
• Long-term dynamics of forest history and phenotypic evolution
• Gene flow and inheritance in natural populations of trees
• Threats to genetic viability of Southeast Asian forest species
• The importance of wildlife for forests
• Synthesis and options for sustainable management.-.