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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 448 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, 145 color plates, 15 halftones, 19 tables
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2022
  • Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN-10: 022653569X
  • ISBN-13: 9780226535692
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 448 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, 145 color plates, 15 halftones, 19 tables
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2022
  • Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN-10: 022653569X
  • ISBN-13: 9780226535692
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Informed by decades of researching tropical Asian forests, a comprehensive, up-to-date, and beautifully illustrated synthesis of the natural history of this unique place.
 
Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia invites readers on an expedition into the leafy, humid, forested landscapes of tropical Asia—the so-called tapovan, a Sanskrit word for the forest where knowledge is attained through tapasya, or inner struggle. Peter Ashton and David Lee, two of the world’s leading scholars on Asian tropical rain forests, reveal the geology and climate that have produced these unique forests, the diversity of species that inhabit them, the means by which rain forest tree species evolve to achieve unique ecological space, and the role of humans in modifying the landscapes over centuries. Following Peter Ashton’s extensive On the Forests of Tropical Asia, the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region from India east to New Guinea, this new book provides a more condensed and updated overview of tropical Asian forests written accessibly for students as well as tropical forest biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists.

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This profoundly inspirational book, a personalalmost autobiographicaldeep-dive into the ecology, evolution, biogeography, and conservation of the forests of tropical Asia, is a lyrically written, instant classic, a page-turner natural history saga in the mold of a modern-day Alfred Russel Wallace. -- Stephen P. Hubbell A fascinating, unique contribution to a scarce literature, and a book that perhaps could only have been written by these two authors. Ashton and Lees stories will inspire others to build a knowledgebase that the rich biodiversity of tropical Asian forests warrants, and that society seeks. -- Kamal Bawa, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and ATREE, Bengaluru A major scientific treatise that will be an essential reference for those who study tropical forests. * Plant Science Bulletin, on "On the Forests of Tropical Asia" * A monumental work. . . . For any tropical biologist on any continent, the book will provide an invaluable reference, a fascinating history, and a wellspring for novel ideas. * Biotropica, on "On the Forests of Tropical Asia" * A masterpiece of scientific scholarship in an area that is of tremendous importance for the biosphere. * Biologist, on "On the Forests of Tropical Asia" *

Preface x
1 The Asian Tropics
1(18)
2 Forests in the Landscape
19(14)
3 Geology
33(18)
4 Climates
51(20)
5 Soils
71(20)
6 Plants of the Asian Tropics
91(24)
7 Lowland Everwet Forests: Structure and Dynamics
115(30)
8 Forests of the Seasonal Tropics
145(22)
9 Tree Species Composition in Tropical Lowland Forests
167(26)
10 Abode of the Clouds
193(30)
11 Trees and Their Mobile Links: Pollination
223(30)
12 Trees and Their Mobile Links: Dispersal and Survival
253(24)
13 Phylogeography
277(30)
14 Forest and Tree Diversity: Why Does It Vary, and How Is It Maintained?
307(30)
15 People in the Forest
337(18)
18 Forest History: The European Influence
355(20)
17 Forest History: Independence
375(24)
18 Future Forests
399(26)
Acknowledgments 425(2)
Appendix A Geological Time Line 427(2)
Appendix B ForestGEO 429(2)
Appendix C An Ecotourism Guide to Tropical Asian Forests 431(12)
Illustration Credits and Abbreviations 443(2)
Index 445
Peter Ashton is professor emeritus in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where he served as director of the Arnold Arboretum. He is also an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is the author, most recently, of On the Forests of Tropical Asia: Lest the Memory Fade. For over fifty years, David Lee has researched leaves, first in the Asian tropics and later at Florida International University, where he taught for thirty years and is professor emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences. He is the author of many articles and several books, including Nature's Palette and Nature's Fabric, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.