Seasonally dry tropical forests /
Seasonally dry tropical forests /
edited by Stephen H. Bullock, Harold A. Mooney, and Ernesto Medina.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 450 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Introduction / Harold A. Mooney -- Dry forests of Central America and the Caribean / Peter G. Murphy --Overview of the Brazilian caatinga / Everardo V.S.B. Sampaio -- Savannas, woodlands and dry forests in Africa / J.C. Menaut -- Dry forest ecosystems of Thailand / Philip W. Rundel -- The Cenozoic record of tropical dry forest in northern Latin America and the southern United States / Alan Graham -- Diversity and and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests / Alwyn H. Gentry -- Vertebrate diversity, ecology and conservation in neotropical dry forests / Gerardo Ceballos -- Diversity of life forms of Higher plants in neotropical dry forests / Ernesto Medina -- Drought responses of neotropical dry forest trees / Michele Holbrook -- Plant reproduction in neotropical dry forests / Stephen H. Bullock -- Plant-herbivore interactions in Mesoamerican tropical dry forests / Rodolfo Dirzo -- Biomass distribution and primary productivityof tropical dry forests / Angelina Martinez-Yrizar -- Nutrient cycling in tropical decciduous forests / Victor J. Jaramillo -- Biology of the belowground system of tropical dry forests / Elvira Cuevas -- -- Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest s ecosystem / Pamela A. Matson -- Conversion of tropical dry forests to pasture and agriculture / J. Manuel Maass -- Ethnobotany of the Mexican tropical dry forests / Robert Bye.
Prolonged seasonal drought affects most of the tropics, including vast areas presently or recently dominated by 'dry forests'. These forests have received scant attention, despite the fact that humans have used and changed them more than rain forests. This volume reviews the available information, often making contrasts with wetter forests. The world's dry forest heterogeneity of structure and function is shown regionally. In the neotropics, biogeographic patterns differ from those of wet forests, as does the spectrum of plant life-forms in terms of structure, physiology, phenology and reproduction. Biomass distribution, nutrient cycling, below-ground dynamics and nitrogen gas emission are also reviewed. Exploitation schemes are surveyed, and examples are given of non-timber product economies. It is hoped that this review will stimulate research leading to more conservative and productive management of dry forests.
9780511753398 (ebook)
Forest ecology--Tropics.
QK936 / .S39 1995
581.5/2642/0913
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Introduction / Harold A. Mooney -- Dry forests of Central America and the Caribean / Peter G. Murphy --Overview of the Brazilian caatinga / Everardo V.S.B. Sampaio -- Savannas, woodlands and dry forests in Africa / J.C. Menaut -- Dry forest ecosystems of Thailand / Philip W. Rundel -- The Cenozoic record of tropical dry forest in northern Latin America and the southern United States / Alan Graham -- Diversity and and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests / Alwyn H. Gentry -- Vertebrate diversity, ecology and conservation in neotropical dry forests / Gerardo Ceballos -- Diversity of life forms of Higher plants in neotropical dry forests / Ernesto Medina -- Drought responses of neotropical dry forest trees / Michele Holbrook -- Plant reproduction in neotropical dry forests / Stephen H. Bullock -- Plant-herbivore interactions in Mesoamerican tropical dry forests / Rodolfo Dirzo -- Biomass distribution and primary productivityof tropical dry forests / Angelina Martinez-Yrizar -- Nutrient cycling in tropical decciduous forests / Victor J. Jaramillo -- Biology of the belowground system of tropical dry forests / Elvira Cuevas -- -- Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest s ecosystem / Pamela A. Matson -- Conversion of tropical dry forests to pasture and agriculture / J. Manuel Maass -- Ethnobotany of the Mexican tropical dry forests / Robert Bye.
Prolonged seasonal drought affects most of the tropics, including vast areas presently or recently dominated by 'dry forests'. These forests have received scant attention, despite the fact that humans have used and changed them more than rain forests. This volume reviews the available information, often making contrasts with wetter forests. The world's dry forest heterogeneity of structure and function is shown regionally. In the neotropics, biogeographic patterns differ from those of wet forests, as does the spectrum of plant life-forms in terms of structure, physiology, phenology and reproduction. Biomass distribution, nutrient cycling, below-ground dynamics and nitrogen gas emission are also reviewed. Exploitation schemes are surveyed, and examples are given of non-timber product economies. It is hoped that this review will stimulate research leading to more conservative and productive management of dry forests.
9780511753398 (ebook)
Forest ecology--Tropics.
QK936 / .S39 1995
581.5/2642/0913