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Managing the future of Southeast Asia's valuable tropical rainforests : a practitioner's guide to forest genetics /

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees and how management systems in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wickneswari, Ratnam, Cannon, Chuck
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Springer, 2011.
Series:Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Forest management systems in Southeast Asia
  • Biogeographic history of Southeast Asian forests
  • Long-term dynamics of forest history and phenotypic evolution
  • Gene flow and inheritance in natural populations of trees
  • Threats to genetic viability of Southeast Asian forest species
  • The importance of wildlife for forests
  • Synthesis and options for sustainable management.-.