Focuses on tropical dry forests in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in recent years, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics. Case studies included analyze the biophysical prop...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on utilization of tropical plantation trees of Malaysia with attention to the aspects of economics and business, planting and managing, and products of the trees....Loe edasi...
This book assesses in a systems context the environmental, biological, and social constraints on Subsaharan African livestock development and considers prospects for improving productivity. It focuses on changes needed in production and marketing sy...Loe edasi...
This book describes the importance of forage legume generaCentrosema, Desmodium, and Stylosanthesfor pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. It presents information on taxonomy, adaptation, distribution, productivity, and...Loe edasi...
Addressing the problem of the high cost of agricultural development in tropical regions, this book summarizes the environmental concerns associated with tropical agriculture. The authors highlight major environmental hazards confronted in tropical...Loe edasi...
Based on the career of Roger Leakey, former Director of Research at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, this accessible and engaging book presents real life situations in rural villages that demonstrate how agroforestry can offer...Loe edasi...
The management of tropical forest ecosystems is essential to the health of the planet. This book addresses forest insect pest problems across the worlds tropics. Fully updated, this second edition also includes discussions of new areas of interest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2011, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444392296)
The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests exploded the myth of the rain forest as a single, uniform entity. This new edition reinforces this message with new examples from recent and on-going research....Loe edasi...
The last decade has seen rapid growth in mango production due to new growing regions and the adoption of modern field practices and cultivars. A comprehensive examination of all aspects of production and research, this fully updated new edition disc...Loe edasi...
Fully revised and updated, this new edition describes how the detrimental effects of heat stress can be reduced through the manipulation of housing, breeding, nutrition and management, and includes new contributions on controlled-environment housing...Loe edasi...
Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and det...Loe edasi...
This fully updated second edition provides practical guidance on methods of extraction, processing and diagnosing of different plant and soil nematodes and on integrated pest management....Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive review of diseases of important tropical and some subtropical fruit crops. The history, distribution, importance, etiology, epidemiology and control of diseases of each host crop are covered, along with brief summari...Loe edasi...
Successful agroforestry requires an understanding of the complex relationship between trees, crops and soils. This book provides a review of both economic and biophysical aspects of soil use|and research in agroforestry, with an emphasis on nutrient...Loe edasi...
There is currently no single up-to-date volume on the pineapple and this book fills that gap. The contents include: history, distribution and world production; botany; breeding, genetic engineering, selection and cultivars; crop environment, tempera...Loe edasi...
Insect and other pests cause major economic damage on fruit crops in the tropics. However, some insects are beneficial and have a role in pollinating flowers, thus enabling fruit set. This book reviews these injurious and beneficial organisims and h...Loe edasi...
