On the Forests of Tropical Asia Ashton Peter
On the Forests of Tropical Asia Ashton Peter Thousands of years ago, Asia was filled with forests that connected ecosystems from the foot of the Himalayas to the shores of the Pacific. And while…
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On the Forests of Tropical Asia Ashton Peter
Thousands of years ago, Asia was filled with forests that connected ecosystems from the foot of the Himalayas to the shores of the Pacific. And while conservation efforts are underway, more parcels disappear every year. Today, more than half of these woodlands are gone, mostly due to the demands of commerce and industry.
It opens with chapters on physical geography and geological history and then moves on to address forest and tree structure and dynamics, floristics, and symbiotic organisms, as well as genetics, evolutionary history, species diversity, and On the Forests of Tropical Asia is a timely record of current forests and a much-needed explanation of the role humans played in the devastation and redevelopment of these forests.On the Forests of Tropical Asia is the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region, from Sind to New Guinea.