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Second growth : the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation / Robin L. Chazdon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: xx, 449 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226117911 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226118079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 577.3 23
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks 577.3 C513s 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 026111
Total holds: 0

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.