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The rainforest edge : plant and soil ecology of Maracá Island, Brazil

Title
The rainforest edge : plant and soil ecology of Maracá Island, Brazil / edited by John Hemming.
Publication
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1994.

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Additional Authors
Hemming, John, 1935-
Description
xvi, 186 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Rain forest edge
Subject
  • Rain forest ecology > Brazil > Maracá Island (Roraima)
  • Soil ecology > Brazil > Maracá Island (Roraima)
  • Rain forest ecology
  • Soil ecology
  • Pflanzenökologie
  • Boden
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Boden
  • Maracá Island (Roraima, Brazil)
  • Brazil > Maracá Island (Roraima)
  • Maracá
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the Maracá Rainforest Project / John Hemming -- The savannas of Maracá / John Proctor -- A semi-evergreen forest on Maracá Island I : physical environment, forest structure and floristics / Jill Thompson, John Proctor and Duncan A. Scott -- A semi-evergreen forest on Maracá Island II : litter and nutrient cycling / Duncan A. Scott, John Proctor and Jill Thompson -- Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in terra firme forest and savanna soils on Maracá Island / Robert H. Marrs [and others] -- Soil nutrients and organic matter in forest and savanna habitats on Maracá Island / Sheila M. Ross -- Soil and plant changes at the forest-savanna boundary on Maracá Island / Peter A. Furley and James A. Ratter -- Remote sensing and the establishment of a geographic information system for resource management on and around Maracá Island / Peter A. Furley, Thomas C.D. Dargie, and Christopher J. Place -- Pasture development on cleared forest land near Maracá Island / Michael J. Eden, Duncan F.M. McGregor and Nelson A.Q. Vieira -- A tentative interpretation of the quaternary geomorphology of Maracá Island, based on an analysis of soils developed on residua and drift deposits / Daniel M. Robison and Stephen Nortcliff.
ISBN
  • 0719034779
  • 9780719034770
LCCN
93010964
OCLC
  • ocm28066070
  • 28066070
  • SCSB-2043365
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library