Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: González, Grizelle (auth)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lugo, Ariel (auth)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου
• Γλώσσα: Αγγλικά
• Έκδοση: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Θέματα: n/a; Ca/Al relationship; soil organic carbon; trees; N/P ratios; humid tropical forests; ?15N; element concentration; leaf C and N densities; tropical deforestation; tropical forest area; hurricane; U.S. Forest Service Planning Rule; El Yunque National Forest; conservation; leaf mass per area; knowledge infrastructures; knowledge systems; idiom of co-production; disturbance; Puerto Rico; novel forests; annual cycle; latitude; experiments; Tropical Forest Management; secondary forests; mature forests; American tropics; stoichiometry of leaf litter; allometry; communications; contemporary conservation; and N/P ratios; succession; photosynthetic nitrogen use-efficiency; biomass; litter; basal area; knowledge systems analysis; tropical; Long-Term Ecological Research; naturalized species; Guánica; Caribbean; knowledge co-production; C/N; C/P; volume expansion factors; tropical forest; wood; strategic teams; dry tropical forests; tree plantations; species composition; climate change; cities; Tropical Forest Conservation; Nearctic-Neotropical; vision; forest inventory data; large-scale; tropical forest management; microbiota; soil biota; adaptive management; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Tropical Forestry Research; nitrogen fixing trees; species dominance; long-term ecological research; network governance; leadership; Forest Service; ?13C; elevation; Anthropocene; tropical karst; geospatial analyses; manipulations; gradients; landscape conservation; element concentration in leaf litter; tropical agriculture; land use planning; tropical forests; carry over effects; invertebrates; introduced species; land use governance; long-term
• Διαθέσιμο Online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This Special Issue looks forward as well as backward to best analyze the forest conservation challenges of the Caribbean. This is made possible by 75 years of research and applications by the United States Department of Agriculture, International Institute of Tropical Forestry (the Institute) of Pue...