Tropical Rainforest

Science, 1973

2003

Preindustrial societies used forests as a source of energy and of construction materials and for recreation, being the hunt preserves (of European aristocracy) one of the first actions taken to, in somehow, safeguard the forests. The expansion of European colonial potencies and the overseas trade led to a valuation of timber, which was crucial in ship-building, and to a widespread clearance of temperate forests. The process of industrialisation converted forests in the source of charcoal to the emergent steam engines. Nowadays, the forests of ...

Monographiae biologicae, 1996

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2010

Nature, 1961

Rhodora, 2005

A recently completed research program (TREES) employing the global imaging capabilities of Earth-observing satellites provides updated information on the status of the world's humid tropical forest cover. Between 1990 and 1997, 5.8+ 1.4 million hectares of humid tropical forest were lost each year, with a further 2.3+ 0.7 million hectares of forest visibly degraded. These figures indicate that the global net rate of change in forest cover for the humid tropics is 23% lower than the generally accepted rate. This result affects the calculation of carbon ...

1985

Tropical and subtropical forests. RW Pearcy, RH Robichaux 1985. In the present chapter, the authors briefly review the distributions of tropical and subtropical forests and the limited information available on the physicological ecology of their component species. ...