Tropical Forests

New Edition

Padmini Sudarshana, Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao, Jaya R. Soneji, Padmini Sudarshana, Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao, Jaya R. Soneji

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781789235623
• eBook ISBN:
  9781838814359
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Forestry
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Tropical forests occupy only one-tenth of the world's land area but are home to more than half of the world's flora and fauna. They comprise extremely complex labyrinth of ecological interactions. The astounding richness and biodiversity of tropical forests are rapidly dwindling. There is a fear that the burgeoning human population and industrialization, where a majority of these tropical forests are found, may lead to the clearing or modification or may be a complete disappearance of the remaining tropical forests within few decades. This has severely altered the vital biogeochemical cycles of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, and so on and has led to the change in global climate and pristine natural ecosystems. Hence, there is an urgent need to protect, restore, conserve, and improve the forest resources before they are irrevocably lost. In this second edition of the book Tropical Forests, the chapters share the above issues and help in understanding, educating, and creating awareness on the role of "tropical forests" for the very survival of mankind, climate change, and the diversity of biota across the globe. This book will be of great use and could be useful to students, scientists, ecologists, population and conservation biologists, and forest managers across the globe.

Table of contents

• Tropical Forests - New Edition
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Physicochemical Foliar Traits Predict Assemblages of Litter/ Humus Detritivore Arthropods
• Chapter 2 Enhanced Phylogenetic Diversity of Anuran Communities: A Result of Species Loss in an Agricultural Environment
• Chapter 3 Tropical Forests Are An Ideal Habitat for Wide Array of Wildlife Species
• Chapter 4 Methods to Evaluate Land-Atmosphere Exchanges in Amazonia Based on Satellite Imagery and Ground Measurements
• Chapter 5 People’s Perceptions of Ecosystem Services Provided by Tropical Dry Forests: A Comparative Case Study in Southern Ecuador
• Chapter 6 South China Tropical Forest Changes in Response to Economic Development and Protection Policies
• Chapter 7 A Re-Examination of the Validity of the “Separative and Exclusive Conservation Model”: Insights from an Ethnobiological Study in Maluku, East Indonesia
• Chapter 8 Physicochemistry and Utilization of Wood Vinegar from Carbonization of Tropical Biomass Waste