Seasonally Dry Tropical ForestsStephen H. Bullock, Harold A. Mooney, Ernesto Medina Cambridge University Press, 1995 M11 24 - 450 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Harold A Mooney Stephen H Bullock and Ernesto Medina | 9 |
Overview of the Brazilian caatinga | 35 |
Savannas woodlands and dry forests in Africa | 64 |
11 | 76 |
12 | 84 |
24 | 91 |
Dry forest ecosystems of Thailand | 93 |
26 | 108 |
Plant reproduction in neotropical dry forests | 277 |
Plantherbivore interactions in Mesoamerican tropical dry forests | 304 |
Biomass distribution and primary productivity of tropical | 326 |
Nutrient cycling in tropical deciduous forests | 346 |
36 | 349 |
38 | 355 |
25 | 361 |
Biology of the belowground system of tropical dry forests | 362 |
29 | 116 |
The Cenozoic record of tropical dry forest in northern Latin | 124 |
Diversity and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests | 146 |
Vertebrate diversity ecology and conservation in neotropical | 161 |
Diversity of life forms of higher plants in neotropical dry forests | 221 |
Drought responses of neotropical dry forest trees | 243 |
64 | 369 |
Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest ecosystem | 384 |
Conversion of tropical dry forest to pasture and agriculture | 399 |
Ethnobotany of the Mexican tropical dry forests | 423 |
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Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests Stephen H. Bullock,Harold A. Mooney,Ernesto Medina Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |
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