Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins
Author: Teja Tscharntke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2007-04-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540302905

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic systems of tropical rain forest margins, as well as striving to integrate environmental, technological and socio-economic issues in their solution.

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins
Author: Teja Tscharntke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2007-04-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540302905

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic systems of tropical rain forest margins, as well as striving to integrate environmental, technological and socio-economic issues in their solution.

Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia

Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia
Author: Gerhard Gerold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3662082373

Southeast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. It is characterized by a high degree of biodiversity and contains a large variety of endemic species. Moreover, these forests provide a number of important and sin gular ecosystem services, like erosion protection and provision of high quality wa ter, which cannot be replaced by alternative ecosystems. However, various forms of encroachment, mostly those made by human interventions, seriously threaten the continuance of rainforests in this area. There is ample evidence that the rainforest resources, apart from large scale commercial logging, are exposed to danger particularly from its margin areas. These areas, which are characterized by intensive man-nature interaction, have been identified as extremely fragile systems. The dynamic equilibrium that bal ances human needs and interventions on the one hand, and natural regeneration capacity on the other, is at stake. The decrease of rainforest resources is, to a sub stantial degree, connected with the destabilization of these systems. Accordingly, the search for measures and processes, which prevent destabilization and promote stability is regarded as imperative. This refers to both the human and the natural part of the forest margin ecosystem.

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change
Author: Teja Tscharntke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2010-02-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642004938

not only for land use systems that depend on the regular supply of rain or irrigation water but also for the future development of natural rainforests as drought stress has been shown to a?ect tree growth and species composition in old-growth forests (Wright 1991, Walsh and Newbery 1999, Engelbrecht et al. 2007). A drought experiment conducted in a cacao agroforestry plantation showed that this plantation was surprisingly resilient to an induced drought of more than a year (Schwendenmann et al. 2009). However, droughts can have a strong impact on household incomes from agriculture, they strongly a?ect the vulnerability to poverty and thus have to be analyzed as important exogenous shocks to households, forcing them to adjust their behaviour and develop strategies to cope with these problems. The stability of rainforest margins is a critical factor in the protection of tropical rainforests (Tscharntke et al. 2007). At present, however, rainf- est margins in many parts of the tropics are far from stable, both in soc- economic and in ecological terms. For example, protected areas may attract, rather than repel, human settlement, which may be due to international donor investment in national conservation programs (Wittemeyer et al. 2008). An alternative hypothesis is that protected areas might be compromised if leakage takes place, that is, if impacts that would take place inside the restricted area are displaced to a nearby, undisturbed area (Ewers and Rodrigues 2008).

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Daniel Stietenroth
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 3938616202

This international symposium featured three interconnected thematic foci of interdisciplinary research. They focussed on the changes in the extent and intensity of agricultural and forest land use in tropical forest margins and their implications for rural development and for conservation of natural resources such as biodiversity, soils and water. The symposium took place in Goettingen. Almost 130 international authors have contributed a short abstract and their adress.

The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics

The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics
Author: Jamie Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2007-03-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134118201

This important resource provides detailed coverage of the growing significance of adat in Indonesian politics. It identifies its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its recent blossoming.

The Social Lives of Forests

The Social Lives of Forests
Author: Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022602413X

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face—including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation—are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests’ past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these forces—from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems—has masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence, even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores forests as places of significant human action, with complex institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain forests to timber farms, the face of forests—how we define, understand, and maintain them—is changing.

Ant Ecology

Ant Ecology
Author: Lori Lach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0199544638

The incredible global diversity of ants, and their important ecological roles, mean that we cannot ignore the significance of ants in ecological systems. Ant Ecology takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the beginnings of ants many hundreds of thousands of years ago, through to the makings of present day distributions.