Forestry Books

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41. Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands

    Resource Management, Values and Local Livelihoods

    Edited by Anthony B. Cunningham, Xuefei Yang

    Series: People and Plants International Conservation

    Many mushrooms - or the 'fruits of fungi' - are extremely valuable, wild-gathered products which are utilised for both their medicinal properties and as food. In many of the world's tropical and temperate forests, they are the primary source of income for the people who live there. These forests...

    Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
42. Forest Wildlife Ecology and Habitat Management

    By David R. Patton

    Across the continental United States, one can identify 20 distinct forest cover types. Most of these are to be found on federal lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Those responsible for the management of trees that form the 20 different cover types and the...

    Published October 11th 2010 by CRC Press
43. Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests

    Edited by Jurgen Bauhus, Peter van der Meer, Markku Kanninen

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and other non-timber goods and services. Often they are monocultures that do...

    Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge
44. Forecasting Forest Futures

    A Hybrid Modelling Approach to the Assessment of Sustainability of Forest Ecosystems and their Values

    By Hamish Kimmins, Jaun A. Blanco, Brad Seely, Clive Welham, Kim Scoullar

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced...

    Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
45. Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats

    A Practitioner's Guide

    By Brenda McComb, Benjamin Zuckerberg, David Vesely, Christopher Jordan

    In the face of so many unprecedented changes in our environment, the pressure is on scientists to lead the way toward a more sustainable future. Written by a team of ecologists, Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a framework that natural resource...

    Published March 10th 2010 by CRC Press
46. Forests for People

    Community Rights and Forest Tenure Reform

    Edited by Anne M. Larson, Deborah Barry, Ganga Ram Dahal, Carol J. Pierce Colfer

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around them . This book assesses the experience of what appears to be a new international trend that has substantially...

    Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
47. Positive Plant Interactions and Community Dynamics

    Edited by Francisco Pugnaire

    Ever since the concept of the "struggle for life" became the heart of Darwin’s theory of evolution, biologists have studied the relevance of interactions for the natural history and evolution of organisms. Although positive interactions among plants have traditionally received little attention,...

    Published February 8th 2010 by CRC Press
48. Urban Wildlife Management, Second Edition

    By Clark E. Adams, Kieran J. Lindsey

    When the first edition of Urban Wildlife Management was published two years ago, it provided conservationists, ecologists, and wildlife professionals with a welcome shift in the way that interactions between humans and wildlife were viewed and managed. Instead of focusing on ways to evict or...

    Published November 23rd 2009 by CRC Press
49. Structural Detailing in Timber

    A Comparative Study of British, European and American Codes and Practices

    Edited by M.Y.H. Bangash

    This manual provides a step-by-step approach to the detailing of timber, and deals with codes of practice from the UK, Europe, America and Russia. It provides practical and up-to-date information on various aspects of timber construction and covers the fundamentals of drawing and drafting practices...

    Published October 8th 2009 by Whittles Publishing
50. Asking the Earth

    Farms, Forestry and Survival in India

    By Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook

    Series: Natural Resource Management Set

    The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice....

    Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge