The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest
| Series: | Environmental |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Subject: | Rain forest plants--Ecophysiology, Trees--Ecophysiology--Tropics, Rain forest ecology, Forests and forestry--Tropics. |
| Authors: | I. M. Turner |
| Pages: | 298 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 9781139428873 |
| Call No: | QK 938.R34 T87 2001 |
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.