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Title

Ecology, conservation, and management of Southeast Asian rainforests / edited by Richard B. Primack and Thomas E. Lovejoy.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Primack, Richard B., 1950-
• Lovejoy, Thomas E.

Description

vii, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The book includes essays by many of the world's leading authorities on tropical forests, among them policy officials and scientists from the countries in the region. It begins with an overview of the timber industry in Southeast Asia and a comparison of tropical rainforests there with those in other parts of the world. Experts then describe the plant and animal communities of the region and discuss the efforts that have been made to preserve them. The last section of the book addresses issues of policy and management. Contributors examine the conflicting needs of forestry officials: on one hand, to conserve sufficient forest to maintain healthy populations of plant and animal species and, on the other, to use forest resources to support the needs of the local people. The authors emphasize the need for immediate solutions to these problems, noting that Southeast Asian forests are crucial not only for the economic and social development of specific countries but also because of their role in global climatic change.

Subject

• Rain forest conservation > Southeast Asia
• Rain forests > Southeast Asia > Management
• Rain forest ecology > Southeast Asia
• Management
• South-East Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Richard B. Primack -- 1. Comparing Southeast Asian and Other Tropical Rainforests / T. C. Whitmore -- 2. Plant Diversity of the Malesian Tropical Rainforest and Its Phytogeographical and Economic Significance / E. Soepadmo -- 3. Structure, Dynamics, and Management of Rainforests on Nutrient-Deficient Soils in Sarawak / Eberhard F. Bruenig and Hans J. Droste -- 4. Links Between Vertebrates and the Conservation of Southeast Asian Rainforests / Junaidi Payne -- 5. Wildlife Responses to Disturbances in Sarawak and Their Implications for Forest Management / Elizabeth L. Bennett and Zainuddin Dahaban -- 6. Rainforests and Their Soils / John Proctor -- 7. Effects of Selective Logging on Soil Characteristics and Growth of Planted Dipterocarp Seedlings in Sabah / Ruth Nussbaum, Jo Anderson and Tom Spencer -- 8. Nursery and Vegetative Propagation Techniques for Genetic Improvement and Large-Scale Enrichment Planting of Dipterocarps / Pedro H. Moura-Costa -- 9. Long-Term Ecological Research in Indonesia: Achieving Sustainable Forest Management / Herwasono Soedjito and Kuswata Kartawinata -- 10. Conserving the Reservoirs and Remnants of Tropical Moist Forest in the Indo-Pacific Region / Eric Dinerstein, Eric D. Wikramanayake and Mark Forney -- 11. Identifying Sites of Global Importance for Conservation: The IUCN/WWF Centres of Plant Diversity Project / Stephen D. Davis.
• 12. The Role of Totally Protected Areas in Preserving Biological Diversity in Sarawak / Abang Haji Kassim bin Abang Morshidi and Melvin Terry Gumal -- 13. The Significance of the Timber Industry in the Economic and Social Development of Sarawak / Hamid Bugo -- 14. Timber Trade, Economics, and Tropical Forest Management / Jeffrey R. Vincent -- 15. Tropical Forests and Climate / R. A. Houghton.

ISBN

0300062346 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94045878^

OCLC

31782412

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Harvard Library