Tropical rain forests contain most of the world's known biological diversity.Understanding how this diversity persists in the face of anthropogenicdisturbance is an increasingly critical issue. To manage and preserve intactecosystems, and to restore degraded ones, a better knowledge of the basicecological processes that affect them is necessary. We must be able to answersuch questions as: How are plant communities structured? How is diversitymaintained in species-rich ecosystems? What ecological factors determinewhich plants grow where? Many processes are known to shape plantcommunities, but what is their relative importance? Approaching answers tothese questions is the primary focus of this book. The book presents a casestudy, built upon experiments performed in a Peruvian rain forest. The authorconducted a series of manipulative experiments on tree seedlings to dissectthe various forces that shape their coexistence. This book is directed to anaudience of ecologists, forest researchers, and conservationists.
Tropical rain forests contain most of the world's known biological diversity.Understanding how this diversity persists in the face of anthropogenicdisturbance is an increasingly critical issue. To manage and preserve intactecosystems, and to restore degraded ones, a better knowledge of the basicecological processes that affect them is necessary. We must be able to answersuch questions as: How are plant communities structured? How is diversitymaintained in species-rich ecosystems? What ecological factors determinewhich plants grow where? Many processes are known to shape plantcommunities, but what is their relative importance? Approaching answers tothese questions is the primary focus of this book. The book presents a casestudy, built upon experiments performed in a Peruvian rain forest. The authorconducted a series of manipulative experiments on tree seedlings to dissectthe various forces that shape their coexistence. This book is directed to anaudience of ecologists, forest researchers, and conservationists.
Since the first edition ofthis book was written, public awareness oftropical rain forests has become so great that issues involving their exploitation are the stuffofdaily newspapers, radio and...
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