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Post-agricultural succession in the neotropics
- Title
- Post-agricultural succession in the neotropics / Randall W. Myster, editor.
- Publication
- New York : Springer, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Myster, Randall W. (Randall Walton), 1955-
- Description
- xiii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Provides a background in old field ecosystems and proposes restoration strategies and a trajectory for future research. This book focuses on published scientific work and its implications for wise management of old field ecosystems in the neotropics. It is useful for the farmers and decision-makers.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Trends in above and belowground carbon with forest regrowth after agricultural abandonment in the Neotropics / Erika Marin-Spiotta ... [et al.] -- Post sugar cane succession in moist alluvial sites in Puerto Rico / Oscar Abelleira Martínez, Ariel E. Lugo -- Soil fungi and macrofauna in the Neotropics / Yiqing Li, Grizelle González -- Earthworms and post-agricultural succession / Grizelle González, Ching Yu Huang, Shu-Chun Chuang -- Factors affecting the species richness and composition of neotropical secondary succession: a case study of abandoned agricultural land in Panama / Elaine R. Hooper -- Seed dispersal by cattle: natural history and applications to neotropical forest restoration and agroforestry / Clara Luz Miceli-Méndez, Bruce G. Ferguson, Neptalí Ramírez-Marcial -- The roles of disperser behavior and physical habitat structure in regeneration of post-agricultural fields / K. Greg Murray ... [et al.] -- Neotropic post-dispersal seed predation / Randall W. Myster -- Facilitation versus competition in neotropical old-fields: a case study after Pinus taeda cultivation in Brazil / Gislene Ganade, Lessandra Zanini, Ingo Hübel -- Recruitment of dry forest tree species in central Brazil pastures / Aldicir Scariot ... [et al.] -- Microbial biomass in native Amazonian ecosystems and its adaptation to deforestation and pasture introduction and management / Brigitte J. Feigl ... [et al.] -- Management for sustainability and restoration of degraded pastures in the Neotropics / Florencia Montagnini -- Conclusions, synthesis, and future directions / Randall W. Myster.
- ISBN
- 9780387336411
- 0387336419
- 9780387336428 (canceled/invalid)
- 0387336427 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2007937949
- 99819100492
- OCLC
- ocn166358121
- 166358121
- SCSB-13552164
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library