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Invasive Forest Insects, Introduced Forest Trees, and Altered Ecosystems

Demand for timber and fibre continues to grow and is being met by increased reliance on plantation forestry. Many of the ...

Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States A Comprehensive Science Synthesis for the United States Forest Sector

This book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue ...

Knowledge for Governance

This book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary ...

Lamto

Known as "a dream place for scientists," the Lamto savannas, located on the edge of the Cote d'Ivoire rain forests, are ...

Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest, cropland and pasture. Among ...

Landscapes, Genomics and Transgenic Conifers

What is the future of genetically modified (or transgenic) conifer plantations? The content of this edited volume Landscapes, ...

Long-Term Ecosystem Changes in Riparian Forests

This book presents and analyzes the results of more than 30 years of long-term ecological research in riparian forest ecosystems ...

Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

With climate change now charging up the political agenda, there are three issues commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, ...

Methods to Study Litter Decomposition

Decomposition of organic matter is a major ecosystem process involving an array of different organisms, including bacteria, ...

Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques : Regression, Classification, and Manifold Learning

Remarkable advances in computation and data storage and the ready availability of huge data sets have been the keys to the ...

Mountain Ecosystems

This volume focuses on interaction between vegetation, relief, climate, soil and fauna in the treeline ecotone, and the effects ...

Multi-Source National Forest Inventory

The book describes in detail the full MS-NFI process, and the input data used – including field data, satellite images, ...

Multifunctional Land Use

The book contributes to the scientific basis for future land development strategies and helps supporting land use decision ...

Mycorrhiza : State of the Art, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Eco-Function, Biotechnology, Eco-Physiology, Structure and Systematics

This third updated and revised edition emphasises strongly on genetics and molecular biology. It contains new chapters, which ...

Mycorrhizae: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry

This book discusses and goes into detail on a number of topics: the molecular basis of nutrient exchange between arbuscular ...

Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture

Agricultural production is highly dependent on weather, climate and water availability and is adversely affected by the weather ...

Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global-Ecodynamics

This book opens a new approach to the study of global environmental changes having unfavourable character for mankind and ...

Nature Conservation

This book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the broad fields of species, community and landscape conservation.

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

The soil water retention curve, the saturated hydraulic conductivity and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function ...

Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment

Sustainability has a major part to play in the global challenge of continued development of regions, countries, and continents ...

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