Download or read book Plant Diversity in Forests of Western Uganda and Eastern Zaire written by Axel Dalberg Poulsen and published by Aarhus University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report focuses on the non-woody components of tropical forests, such as herbaceous plants. It is the result of a project carried out in several forests in Western Uganda and Eastern Zaire from 1994 to 1996. The project was carried out by the Danish Centre for Tropical Biodiversity (The Botanical Museum, Copenhagen) in collaboration with several institutions in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire). Tropical forests are objects of increasing interest for their importance to the global environment. Forestry studies have so far solely been focused on trees, despite the fact that forest floor plants have the advantage of easy access. The aim of the project was to assess patterns of botanical diversity within and between forests in Western Uganda. The main emphasis was on the ground herbs, especially the ferns. The most significant output at this stage is the documentation of species. Appendices list the diversity of species for each Ugandan site.
Download or read book Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns written by Ib Friis and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 2005 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests written by Jeffrey Sayer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that sound information is vital to the progress of conservation, IUCN have gathered together a visual portfolio of maps of rain forests in Africa. The accompanying text analyzes the extent and causes of deforestation and points a way towards sustainable forest development.
Download or read book A Strategy for the Forest Sector in Sub Saharan Africa written by Narendra P. Sharma and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper 251. Presents new strategies for protecting forests in Sub-Saharan Africa and underlines the importance of the region's natural resources to its economic development. Forest resources in Sub-Saharan Africa are disa
Download or read book Timber Production and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Rain Forests written by Andrew Grieser Johns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How timber production and tropical biodiversity conservation can be balanced.
Download or read book Biodiversity in Sub Saharan Africa and Its Islands written by S. N. Stuart and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1990 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Biodiversity written by World Conservation Monitoring Centre and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Biodiversity is the most comprehensive compendium of conservation information ever published. It provides the first systematic report on the status, distribution, management, and utilisation of the planet's biological wealth.
Download or read book Biologiske skrifter written by Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Parks written by Grazia Polisciano and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been an increased need to understand ecosystems in order to be able to manage them for conservation and sustainable use. Yet examples of how research directly supports conservation are rare. This book examines the impact of disturbance, specifically habitat fragmentation and forest harvesting in national parks. This book also presents the results of observations of bulk deposition and its physico-chemical properties in national parks in Poland and tries to identify tendencies of change in its composition. In addition, research on Uganda's forest and savanna parks are reviewed, stimulating thinking about what kind of research is of value in guiding conservation actions. Over the past several decades, a highly polarised debate has emerged in the conservation literature about whether national parks in lesser developed countries should follow the "Yellowstone model" of strict protection or whether new types of national park should be developed. The authors of this book assess the U.S. national park experience and ways in which to balance people's needs and desires with nature protection in national parks. Other chapters in this book examine the abundance and diversity of vertebrate fauna in national parks in India, the roles of rhodolith beds and their impact in the marine national parks of the Gulf of California management, the impacts of multiple or extreme storms on national seashores, and the impact of invasive plant species on biodiversity and ecological integrity of national parks.
Download or read book African Insectivora and Elephant shrews written by Martin E. Nicoll and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1990 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three mammalian orders, Insectivora, Scandentia, and Macroscelidea, all comprise small, terrestrial mammals that are primarily adapted to an insectivorous diet. In general, we know very little about the threats facing the African Insectivora and elephant-shrews. However, the little we know suggests that they tend to be at risk from habitat modification, rather than from direct exploitation of the species themselves. Both on the African mainland and on Madagascar there are several centres of exceptional diversity and endemism for these species. These centres are identified in this Action Plan, and the principal conservation priority is the maintenance of sufficient areas of suitable habitat in these centres.
Download or read book Field Guide to Palms in Papua New Guinea written by Anders S. Barfod and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within South-East Asia there are over 1,000 species of palms and two centres of diversity. Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula constitutes one such centre. The other is the world's second largest island, New Guinea, which is estimated to have over 300 species. This guide to Papua New Guinea palms contains a multi-access key which is very flexible and easy to use even though information is sparse. It is based on 42 simple characters. For each of the 31 palm genera in Papua New Guinea the book contains notes on variation in form, distribution and use.
Download or read book Primates of Western Uganda written by Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers aspects of ecology, behavior, genetics, taxonomy, 'cultural' patterns, hunting by non-human primates, physiology, dietary chemistry, and ecotourism, in several major clades of primates from galagos and pottos, through cercopithecoids, to hominoids.
Download or read book Antelopes written by Rod East and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Centres of Plant Diversity Europe Africa South West Asia and the Middle East written by World Wide Fund for Nature and published by World Conservation Union. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1.
Download or read book Biodiversity Under Threat written by Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain) and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity, for example from pollution and from climate change, resulting from build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This book addresses these concerns by detailing some of the research currently in progress.
Download or read book Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians written by William Edward Duellman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-07-28 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet, University of California, Santa Barbara; Michael J. Tyler, University of Adelaide, Australia; Zhao Er-Mi, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Peoples Republic of China
Download or read book Tropical Forests and Climate written by N. Myers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate. Or not? This book discusses basic questions on how far, if at all, tropical deforestation leads to climatic change. The question of this uncertainty is particularly addressed. One important consequence of the uncertainties of whether deforestation affects climate is how scientific findings best illuminate the policy-making process.
