Author: Guillermo Sarmiento
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: savannas, neotropical, ecology
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1984-04-25
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674224604
ISBN-13: 9780674224605

Savanna ecosystems play a major role in the natural landscape and in the economic life of vast areas of the tropics. These grasslands are inherently fragile, yet Third World economic development makes human exploitation inevitable. The question that remains is whether utilization of the savannas for agriculture and other purposes will create sustained economic growth or a desert waste. Guillermo Sarmiento is an unquestionable authority on the grasslands of the New World. His book is the first modern, integrated view of the genesis and function of this important natural system--a synthesis

Author: Jeri Freedman
Publisher: Rosen Central
Keywords: world, biomes, savannas, sweeping, grasslands
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2009-01
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1435850033
ISBN-13: 9781435850033

Authors:Stephen Packard, Cornelia F. Mutel,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: savannas, woodlands, prairies, handbook, restoration, tallgrass
Number of Pages: 463
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1559633204
ISBN-13: 9781559633208

Prairies are among the most severely degraded ecosystems on the North American continent, with virtually no original prairie land extant in a pristine state. Because of the amount and severity of environmental damage visited upon them, prairies have become a proving ground for the fledgling craft of ecological restoration.The restoration of ecosystems is a practical science, with little theoretical knowledge available to guide the work of practitioners. Information is acquired primarily through an arduous process of trial and error, and the need for sharing information is immense. The Tallgras

Authors:Alan N. Andersen, Garry D. Cook, Richard J. Willi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecological, studies, experiment, kapalga, tropical, savannas, fire
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2003-06-24
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 038700291X
ISBN-13: 9780387002910

The ten-year research program and the Kapalga fire experiment at CSIRO in Australia has provided a wealth of knowledge about savanna ecosystems and the critical but poorly understood role of fire. The frequent low intensity fires examined in this volume characterize fire in the tropics and are a dominant force in shaping the structure and function of tropical ecosystems. This book will be valuable to tropical and savanna ecologists, fire ecologists and fire managers throughout the world, whether they are interested in plants, animals, soils or in the landscape as a whole.

Authors:Roger C. Anderson, James S. Fralish, Jerry M. Baskin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: communities, north, america, plant, outcrop, barrens, rock, savannas
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1999-07-28
List price: $167.99
ISBN-10: 052157322X
ISBN-13: 9780521573221

Savannas and barrens were major components of the historic North American landscape before it was extensively altered by agricultural and urban development during the past century. Rock outcrop plant communities and serpentine barrens are of interest because they are refuges for endemic species adapted to extreme environmental conditions. Many of these communities are currently reduced to less than one percent of their original area and are imperiled ecosystems. This book provides a coherent and readable summary of the technical information available on savannas, barrens, and rock outcrop pla

Authors:R. Toby Pennington, James A. Ratter,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systematics, conservation, association, special, volumes, biogeography, diversity, seasonally, savannas, dry, forests, plant, neotropical
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2006-05-25
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0849329876
ISBN-13: 9780849329876

More often than not, when people think of a neotropical forest, what comes to mind is a rain forest, rather than a dry forest. Just as typically, when they imagine a savanna, they visualize the African plains, rather than those dry woodlands and grasslands found in the Neotropics. These same preconceptions can be found among scientists, as these neotropical biomes receive nowhere near the attention they should - in terms of both research and conservation -considering the amount of land they encompass and the diversity of vegetation they contain. Neotropical Savannas and Dry Forests: Plant Dive

Author:
Publisher: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in cooperation with Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Keywords: workshop, fao, september, cotonou, benin, republic, iita, proceedings, africa, savannas, potentials, constraints, production, crop, moist
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1995
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9781310987
ISBN-13: 9789781310980