The environment and tropical forests
A WORLD BANK POLICY RESEARCH REPORT. At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, and Environment in the Tropical Forests
... of diversity as an inherent goal, of the same kind as reducing child mortality or preserving the great artworks of earlier civilizations. Can conservation of globally signifi cant biodiversity be justi- fi ed on ...
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The Disappearance of the Tropical Forests of Africa
... equatorial forests of Africa have been little exploited and they contain phenomenal quantities of ...suitable environment for forest growth and industrial crops like palm, and they produce here the highest ...
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Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
... and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China; jjjj Department of Bioscience, Aarhus ...
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Lianas as a microhabitat for myxomycetes in tropical forests
... natural environment, lianas would undergo periods of drying, which is quite unlike the forest floor, tree bark and other microhabitats that may remain continuously moist, a condition that would not favor the ...
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Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests
... and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China; jjjj Department of Bioscience, Aarhus ...
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Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
... and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China; jjjj Department of Bioscience, Aarhus ...
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Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
... and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China; jjjj Department of Bioscience, Aarhus ...
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The recovery of ant communities in regenerating tropical forests
... Ants were sampled from 240 one-square-meter quadrats. We tested for non- random patterns in niche space occupation, comparing observed patterns with expected patterns based on two null models. The niche space of local ...
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Biological control of an agricultural pest protects tropical forests
... Biological control requires a reassessment by all those responsible for achieving a more sustainable world 2–4,49,50 . While invasive species undermine many of the UN Sustainable Devel- opment Goals 1,8,51 , the benefits ...
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Stand dynamics and regeneration of tropical dry forests in Nicaragua
... dry forests, as well as restoration of dry ...of tropical forests and the associated effects on timber production, biodiversity and global environment are well recognized ...today. ...
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Management of the Ghana tropical high forests : evaluation of forest management in the Ghana tropical high forests
... Savings made in conversion can be absorbed by the Ghanaian retail market. 5.3 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE MANAGEMENT GF T-E GTHF Soil erosion, water turbidity, forest clearing and general environmental pollution ...
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Secondary succession in tropical dry forests
... I am happy to have been part of the great professional community of the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography at Bangor University. I thank all the researchers who kindly advised me, among them ...
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Fixing tropical forests
... This study substantially boosts our understanding of the patterns of abundance of nitrogen-fixing trees in tropical forests, but there are several avenues for further exploration. It is not clear why fixers ...
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Tropical moist forests
... inhabit tropical lands and population growth rates are ...the tropical population relies on subsistence ...Increasingly, tropical agriculture is supplying markets in industrialised ...native ...
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Threats to tropical forests
... • Deforestation: "permanent removal of forest cover and withdrawal of land from forest use, whether deliberately or circumstantially". (IPCC) = entire loss of patches of forest[r] ...
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Increasing human dominance of tropical forests
... linking tropical forest landscapes with those ~4°C cooler will be necessary to reduce levels of ...of tropical forests, and maintain the flow of ecosystem services they ...
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Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
... Structure and floristic composition of a tropical evergreen forest 72. in southwest India[r] ...
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Ecosystem services supplied by tropical forests
... ecosystems. Tropical forests provide critical ecosystem services worldwide due to the high biodiversity they host and their contribution to key ecological functions such as the regulation of climatic and ...
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Globally consistent impact of tropical cyclones on the structure of tropical and subtropical forests
... of forests on a pantropical ...of forests in a globally consistent ...humid forests, TCs may have a stronger effect on canopy height than water avail- ...
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dermatology in a tropical environment
... 12 medicus tropicus bulletin 2013 mARcH 01 Mycetoma (Madura foot) is a thoroughly neglected condition. it occurs worldwide, but Sudan seems to be the homeland. it affects mainly poor people in remote areas which may ...
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