Tropical Dry Forests
DIVERSITY AND COMPOSITION OF CLIMBING PLANTS IN TROPICAL DRY FORESTS OF NORTHERN ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA
... two dry tropical forest sites (1 ha each) in northern Andhra ...the tropical dry forest sites of northern Andhra Pradesh restore substantial climber diversity as similar to other parts Eastern ...
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Tropical Dry Forest Leaf Composition and Hyperspectral Reflectance
... Guánica Dry Forest has an average annual precipitation of 816 mm since 1931 (computed from National Weather Service ...Caribbean tropical dry forest structure is different from other tropical ...
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Invasive plant species and their disaster-effects in dry tropical forests and rangelands of Kenya and Tanzania
... Invasive plants are a hazard in the tropical dry forests and rangelands of East Africa. Although often not reported, they have increasingly created disasters that have affected the environment and ...
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Efficient plot-based floristic assessment of tropical forests
... diverse forests found (and why)? (2) How floristically differentiated are forests across the study region (and why)? In this context statist- ically efficient research maximizes the rate at which ele- ments ...
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Conservation and Restoration of Endangered Plant Species in the Tropical Forests
... P. africana is a high value tree species. The species wood is used for carving mortar and pestle; these products are used in every household for pounding yam among others. The wood is also used for the production of high ...
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MONITORING TROPICAL FORESTS USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
... these forests and the need for information, can be viewed from several perspectives: (a) Tropical rainforests play an essential role in global hydrological, biochemical and energy cycles and, thus, in the ...
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Changes in growth of tropical forests: evaluating potential biases
... and tropical forests ...species-rich tropical forests the process may well be more complicated, with many individuals of shade-tol- erant species surviving for long periods of time in a ...
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Tropical forests, climate change and neoliberal environmental governmentality
... Forests cover roughly a third of the Earth’s land surface and are home to as much as ninety per cent of land-based animal and plant life. They provide food, shelter, fuel and livelihoods to 1.6 billion people. In ...
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Leaf chemical and spectral diversity in Australian tropical forests
... montane tropical forest ...virtual forests as taxonomic diversity is randomly increased (mean and SD of 1000 forests with one species and its chemical variability; then 1000 forests with two ...
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Tropical forests. The Courier No. 180, April/May 2000
... It Is in recognition of these needs, concerns and opportunities that a regional forestry programme has recently been launched by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute CANARI, with su[r] ...
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Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests
... of tropical forests are crucially ...In forests where lianas are present, the partitioning of forest aboveground net primary production is dominated by leaves ...liana-free forests) at the ...
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Predicting tree heights for biomass estimates in tropical forests
... a dry season index (DSI), computed as the average number of months with a rainfall below 100 mm (Wagner et ...The dry season index quantifies the length of the annual hydraulic stress for ...
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Foliage insect diversity in dry eucalypt forests in eastern Tasmania
... 1960s, dry eucalypt forests in eastern Tasmania were selectively logged for sawlogs and small volumes of fence posts and ...these forests were harvested and regenerated by clearfelling all ...
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Life after logging in tropical forests of Borneo: A meta-analysis
... cal forests in permanent timber estates (Blaser et ...logged tropical forests has therefore been ...logged tropical forests can retain many species and much func- tional diversity (Dent ...
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Recruitment and dispersal limitations in a chronosequence of secondary forests in tropical Australia
... regenerating forests in the Neotropics are characterized by high abundance of lianas that rapidly colonize these forests (DeWalt et ...in tropical Australia have biotic seed dispersal (Gallagher et ...
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Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests
... African tropical forest store? Where in Africa is biomass lower or higher; and what controls this spatial variation? How do African forest AGB values compare with those on other conti- nents? Here, we collate ...
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Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests
... African tropical forest store? Where in Africa is biomass lower or higher; and what controls this spatial variation? How do African forest AGB values compare with those on other conti- nents? Here, we collate ...
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Impacts of land management on the resilience of Mediterranean dry forests to fire
... pine forests are the prevention of fires by reducing the fuel load and its continuity, and to improve pine regeneration by eliminating the competition between different ...
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Tree volume models for tropical broadleaved forests : with particular reference to the forests of the Northern Territory
... Considerable among t h e It old appears level of likely that begun reduce the to this 1974 Specific applied In this e arlie r, the non-linear fit the data, height of appeared merchantabl[r] ...
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Impacts of land management on the resilience of Mediterranean dry forests to fire
... events 2.7 increased surface water runoff 1.0 reduced fire risk 2.7 decreased soil cover 1.5 decreased soil organic matter 1.0 increased soil erosion (locally) 1.0 increas[r] ...
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