Research History and Opportunities in the Luquillo Experimental Forest
Author | : Sandra K. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : El Yunque National Forest (P.R.) |
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Author | : Sandra K. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : El Yunque National Forest (P.R.) |
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Author | : Peter L. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Forest ecology |
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Author | : United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author | : Michael R. Willig |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 019938021X |
This book explores the broader impacts arising from collaborative and multidisciplinary participation in the Long-Term Ecological (LTER) Program with regard to personal perspectives, attitudes, and practices. A series of retrospective essays addresses probing questions to uncover the extent to which participation has affected the ways that scientists conduct research, educate students, or provide outreach. Concluding chapters integrate and synthesize the findings from the essays from historical, behavioral, sociological perspectives.
Author | : Joe Wisniewski |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 940112793X |
Most of the attention with respect to the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations centers around three issues: human-generated sources of carbon, mostly from burning fossil fuels; tropical deforestation, which accelerates the production of atmospheric carbon while causting havoc with biodiversity and the economic development of tropical countries; and the temperature increase that may accompany increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. This is the first book to focus extensively on the reverse to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), i.e. the sequestering of atmospheric carbon by aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Natural ecosystems are currently sequestering carbon and it is economically feasible to manage existing and additional terrestrial (forest, soil, saline land) and aquatic (coastal, wetland and ocean) ecosystems to substantially increase the level of carbon storage. The prospect of managing natural systems to absorb additional carbon should begin to change the mindset under which scientists, policy makers and society deal with the issue of further greenhouse gas increases.
Author | : Peter L. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Baño de Oro Natural Area (P.R.) |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author | : Deborah C. Hayes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461418186 |
USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges (EFRs) are scientific treasures, providing secure, protected research sites where complex and diverse ecological processes are studied over the long term. This book offers several examples of the dynamic interactions among questions of public concern or policy, EFR research, and natural resource management practices and policies. Often, trends observed – or expected -- in the early years of a research program are contradicted or confounded as the research record extends over decades. The EFRs are among the few areas in the US where such long-term research has been carried out by teams of scientists. Changes in society’s needs and values can also redirect research programs. Each chapter of this book reflects the interplay between the ecological results that emerge from a long-term research project and the social forces that influence questions asked and resources invested in ecological research. While these stories include summaries and syntheses of traditional research results, they offer a distinctly new perspective, a larger and more complete picture than that provided by a more typical 5-year study. They also provide examples of long-term research on EFRs that have provided answers for questions not even imagined at the time the study was installed.
Author | : Ariel E. Lugo |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1461224985 |
Forestry professors used to remind students that, whereas physicians bury their mistakes, foresters die before theirs are noticed. But good institutions live longer than the scientists who contribute to building them, and the half-century of work of the USDA Forest Service's Institute of Tropical Forestry (ITF) is in plain view: an unprecedented corpus of accomplishments that would instill pride in any organization. There is scarcely anyone interested in current issues of tropical forestry who would not benefit from a refresher course in ITF's findings: its early collaboration with farmers to establish plantations, its successes in what we now call social forestry, its continuous improvement of nursery practices, its screening trials of native species, its development of wood-processing technologies appropriate for developing countries, its thorough analysis of tropical forest function, and its holistic approach toward conservation of endangered species. Fortunately, ITF has a long history of information exchange through teaching; like many others, I got my own start in tropical forest ecology fromjust such a course in Puerto Rico. And long before politicians recognized the global importance of tropical forestry, the ITF staff served actively as ambassadors of the discipline, visiting tropical coun tries everywhere to learn and, when invited to do so, to help solve local problems. It is a general principle of biogeography that species' turnover rates on islands are higher than those on continents. Inevitably, the same is true of scientists assigned to work on islands.