Second growth : the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation / Robin L. Chazdon.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: xx, 449 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226117911 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226118079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 577.3 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks | 577.3 C513s 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Not For Loan | 026111 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-428) and index.
Perceptions of tropical forests and natural regeneration -- Ancient human legacies in tropical forest landscapes -- Landscape transformation and tropical forest regeneration through prehistory -- Tropical forest dynamics and disturbance regimes -- Successional pathways and forest transformations -- Tropical forest succession on newly created substrates -- Forest regeneration following agricultural land uses -- Forest regeneration following hurricanes and fires -- Forest regeneration following selective logging and land-use synergisms -- Functional traits and community assembly during secondary succession -- Recovery of ecosystem functions during forest regeneration -- Animal diversity and plant-animal interactions in regenerating forests -- Tropical reforestation pathways -- Regenerating forests in tropical landscapes -- Synthesis: The promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation.