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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777326703321

Autore

Turner I. M (Ian Mark), <1963->

Titolo

The ecology of trees in the tropical rain forest / / I.M. Turner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12288-0

0-521-06374-4

1-280-43312-4

9786610433124

0-511-17378-4

0-511-15302-3

0-511-32509-6

0-511-54220-8

0-511-04769-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge tropical biology series

Disciplina

577.34

Soggetti

Rain forest plants - Ecophysiology

Trees - Ecophysiology - Tropics

Rain forest ecology

Forests and forestry - Tropics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-280) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The growing tree -- 3. Tree performance -- 4. Reproductive biology -- 5. Seeds and seedlings -- 6. Classificatory systems for tropical trees.

Sommario/riassunto

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and which may also lead to a workable



ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rain-forest community and making it more amenable to analysis.