Tropical ecosystems in the 21st century Volume 62/

"Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 62, the latest release in this ongoing series, covers a long list of topics, including Monitoring tropical insects in the 21st Century, The distribution and structure of long-term and large-scale fire manipulation experiments, The Agua Salud Project: Bas...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dumbrell, Alex J., Turner, Edgar C., Fayle, Tom M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press, 2020.
Colección:Advances in ecological research ; v. 62.
Temas:
Ecology > Tropics.
Biotic communities.
Ecosystem
Tropical Climate
�Ecosyst�emes.
Biotic communities
Ecology
Tropics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Tropical Ecosystems in the 21st Century
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Papers in this edition
  • 3. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter One: Protecting environmental and socio-economic values of selectively logged tropical forests in the Anthropocene
  • 1. Impacts of logging on forest structure
  • 2. Selective logging: Two words for many things
  • 3. Biodiversity impacts at the community level
  • 4. Biodiversity impacts at the individual level
  • 5. Impacts on ecosystem services
  • 6. Impacts on local communities
  • 7. Delivering more sustainable outcomes via improved logging management
  • 7.1. Reduced-impact logging (RIL)
  • 7.2. Spatial management of harvests
  • 7.3. Roads
  • 8. Natural and Enhanced Recovery of Logged Forest Values
  • 8.1. Natural Recovery
  • 8.2. Enhanced recovery via post-logging interventions
  • 9. Logged forests under climate change
  • 10. How to drive improved logging management-Legal levers and monitoring, certification, REDD+, and FLR
  • 10.1. Legal levers and monitoring
  • 10.2. Certification
  • 10.3. REDD+
  • 10.4. Forest and landscape restoration-Promoting active management of selectively logged forests
  • 11. Conclusions and conservation recommendations
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter Two: Novelty in the tropical forests of the 21st century
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Novelty in ecosystems
  • 3. Change in tropical climates
  • 4. Three case studies regarding novelty in tropical forests
  • 4.1. Island novel forests: A case study from the Caribbean
  • 4.2. Montane continental novel communities: A case study from the Andes
  • 4.3. Lowland Continental Novel Forests: A case study from the Venezuelan Llanos
  • 5. The functioning of novel tropical forests
  • 5.1. Organic matter dynamics
  • 5.2. Cycling of elements
  • 6. Tropical forests of the future
  • 6.1. Conservation of novel tropical forests and interventions for ecological services
  • 6.2. Passive interventions
  • 6.3. Active interventions
  • 6.4. Experiments
  • 6.5. Historical and novel fauna
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Appendix
  • A.1. Los Llanos of Venezuela
  • A.2. Analysis of published floras
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter Three: Monitoring tropical forest degradation and restoration with satellite remote sensing: A test using Sabah B ...
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology
  • 2.1. Location
  • 2.2. Remote sensing data
  • 2.2.1. Landsat vegetation continuous fields tree cover
  • 2.2.2. MODIS MCD15A3H LAI
  • 2.2.3. Estimated deforested area biomass
  • 2.2.4. RapidEye image
  • 2.3. Methods
  • 2.3.1. Vegetation metrics inversion from RapidEye image
  • 2.3.2. Statistical analysis
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Effects of relogging on vegetation canopy attributes

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