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Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation

By Arild Angelsen (editor), Center for International Forestry Research (corporate author) and David Kaimowitz (editor)

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9780851994512 | C A B Intl, July 19, 2001, cover price $135.00

The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People

Product Description: The floodplain forest of the worlds mightiest river, the Amazon, is one of the last major agricultural frontiers. Inhabitants of this bountiful environment have long harvested its wealth of plant and animal resources for a wide array of products, especially fruits, nuts, building materials, fuelwood, and medicinal plants...read more

By Nigel J. H. Smith

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9780195122077 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 1, 1999, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: The floodplain forest of the worlds mightiest river, the Amazon, is one of the last major agricultural frontiers.

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9780195126839 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 28, 1999, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: The floodplain forest of the worlds mightiest river, the Amazon, is one of the last major agricultural frontiers.

Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth

By Nigel J. H. Smith

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9780292777705 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $39.95

Aspects of Tropical Mycology: Symposium of the British Mycological Society Held at the University of Liverpool, April 1992

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By British Mycological Society Symposium (other contributor), Juliet C. Frankland, Susan Isaac and Roy Watling (contributor)

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9780521450508 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $179.99

Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds

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By Eugene S. Morton and Bridget J. M. Stutchbury

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9780126755558 | Academic Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $84.95

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9780126755565 | Academic Pr, January 3, 2001, cover price $81.95

Biodiversity and Savanna Ecosystem Processes: A Global Perspective

Product Description: Savannas are the most widespread ecosystem in the tropics and as such are subjected to great human pressure that may result in massive soil degradation. The book addresses the role of species in the function of savanna ecosystems...read more

By Ernesto Medina (editor), J. F. Silva (editor) and Otto T. Solbrig (editor)

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9783540579496 | Springer Verlag, April 1, 1996, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Savannas are the most widespread ecosystem in the tropics and as such are subjected to great human pressure that may result in massive soil degradation.

Biodiversity of Tropical Microfungi

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By Kevin D. Hyde (editor)

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9789622094222 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $55.00

Biomass Burning and Global Change: Biomass Burning in South America, Southeast Asia, and Temperate and Boreal Ecosystems, and the Oil Fires of Kuwait

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By Joel S. Levine (editor)

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9780262122023 | Mit Pr, December 20, 1996, cover price $19.75

Biotic Diversity in Southern Africa: Concepts and Conservation

Product Description: This volume provides full coverage of efforts by southern African scientists and administrators to maintain that regions rich variety of plants, animals, microorganisms, and ecosystems, as well as related endeavors by such major organizations as the World Bank, the Brundtland Commission, the World Health Organization, and the FAO...read more

By B. J. Huntley (editor)

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9780195705492 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This volume provides full coverage of efforts by southern African scientists and administrators to maintain that regions rich variety of plants, animals, microorganisms, and ecosystems, as well as related endeavors by such major organizations as the World Bank, the Brundtland Commission, the World Health Organization, and the FAO.

The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon

By Andres Ruzo

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9781501119477 | Ted, February 16, 2016, cover price $16.99

Earthworm Management in Tropical Agroecosystems

By L. Brussard (editor), P. Hendrix (editor) and P. Lavelle (editor)

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9780851992709 | C A B Intl, December 2, 1999, cover price $133.00

Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape

Product Description: This volume contains a comprehensive analysis of ecological gradients in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. This tropical island setting comprises six ecological life zones and is ideal for studying environmental gradients given dramatic differences in temperature and precipitation that are associated with a rise in elevation from sea level to more than 1000 m over a distance of 10-15 km...read more

By Grizelle Gonzalez (editor), Robert B. Waide (editor) and Michael R. Willig (editor)

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9781118659328 | Blackwell Pub, March 31, 2014, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This volume contains a comprehensive analysis of ecological gradients in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico.

Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds

Product Description: For more than a decade ornithologists have suspected that migrant landbird populations in the United States and Canada are declining. Fragmented forests in the northern breeding grounds and the loss of habitats in tropical wintering zones have been suggested as two major factors in the population declines...read more

By John M. Hagan, III and David W. Johnston (editor)

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9781560981138 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: For more than a decade ornithologists have suspected that migrant landbird populations in the United States and Canada are declining.

Fire in the Tropical Biota: Ecosystem Processes and Global Challenges

Product Description: In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany. The scope of the congresses was to create a platform for researchers at a time when the science of fire ecology was not yet recognized and established outside of North America and Australia...read more

By J. G. Goldammer (editor), Symposium on Fire Ecology 1989 (other contributor) and Volkswagenstiftung (corporate author)

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9780387521152 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1990, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany.

The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: Sustainable Management of Changing Environments

'Amazonia and adjacent lands have tremendous environmental variations, and approaches to the sustainable management of these fragile lands must be different. Geographers Hiraoka, Nishizawa, Sternberg, and Yagasaki have important contributions among the 14 articles'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

By Toshie Nishizawa (editor) and Juha I. Uitto (editor)

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9789280808773 | United Nations Univ, March 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 'Amazonia and adjacent lands have tremendous environmental variations, and approaches to the sustainable management of these fragile lands must be different.

Galapagos: A Terrestrial and Marine Phenomenon

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By Paul Humann

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9781878348098 | Rev sub edition (New World Pubns Inc, November 1, 1994), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: All in good condition.

Geomorphology of the Tropics

Product Description: Geomorphological research in the humid to seasonal tropics has primarily concentrated on the most characteristic landform assemblage of this zone, namely that of stepped, largely undissected etchplains, often dotted with inselbergs and cutting across ancient basement rocks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Detlef Busche (trans) and Alfred Wirthmann

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9783540635833 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1999, cover price $329.00 | About this edition: Geomorphological research in the humid to seasonal tropics has primarily concentrated on the most characteristic landform assemblage of this zone, namely that of stepped, largely undissected etchplains, often dotted with inselbergs and cutting across ancient basement rocks.

Geomorphology of the Tropics

By D. Busche (trans) and Alfred Wirthmann

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9783642083433 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1999, cover price $329.00 | About this edition: Geomorphological research in the humid to seasonal tropics has primarily concentrated on the most characteristic landform assemblage of this zone, namely that of stepped, largely undissected etchplains, often dotted with inselbergs and cutting across ancient basement rocks.

Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosytems

Product Description: Tropical ecosystems - the regions between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn - play an important role in global processes, economic issues, and political concerns. In their natural state, tropical ecosystems support a large quantity of above- and below-ground biomass, and constitute a major part of the terrestrial carbon pool...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By J. M. Kimble (editor), R. Lal (editor) and B. A. Stewart (editor)

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9781566704854 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 1, 1999, cover price $172.95 | About this edition: Tropical ecosystems - the regions between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn - play an important role in global processes, economic issues, and political concerns.

Green Indonesia: Tropical Forest Encounters

Product Description: Tropical rain forests, covering only seven percent of the earth's land surface, are the world's oldest ecosystems, providing natural habitats for over 50 percent of all species. The Indonesian archipelago, composed of some 13,000 equitorial islands, contains 10 percent of the world's total rain forest area and is home to an estimated 4,000 species of trees, 500 species of mammals, and over 1,500 species of birds...read more

By Alain Compost (photographer) and Ilsa Sharp

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9789676530455 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Tropical rain forests, covering only seven percent of the earth's land surface, are the world's oldest ecosystems, providing natural habitats for over 50 percent of all species.

Humid Tropical Environments

By Andrew C. Millington, Alison J. Reading and Russell D. Thompson

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9780631172871 | Blackwell Pub, September 6, 1995, cover price $200.00

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9780631191742 | Blackwell Pub, November 6, 1995, cover price $63.95

Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests

Product Description: Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with devastating implications for other species and the health of the forests themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Elizabeth L. Bennett (editor) and John G. Robinson (editor)

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9780231109765 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife.

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9780231109772 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with devastating implications for other species and the health of the forests themselves.

Key Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics

By Adrain J. Long and David C. Wege

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9781560985297 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $49.95

Last Stand: Protected Areas and the Defense of Tropical Biodiversity

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By Julie Johnson (editor), Randall A. Kramer (editor) and Carel Van Schaik (editor)

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9780195095548 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 6, 1997, cover price $170.00

Life History and Biogeography: Patterns in Conus

Product Description: How dispersal affects the geographic ranges of species is a controversial issue. This book describes the colorful and ecologically important snail genus Conus, and provides what is probably the best and most extensive data set of life parameters available for any tropical invertebrate taxon...read more

By Alan J. Kohn and Frank E. Perron

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9780198540809 | Clarendon Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: How dispersal affects the geographic ranges of species is a controversial issue.

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