Download or read book Trees and Plants in the Rain Forest written by Saviour Pirotta and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the different types of trees and plants that grow in the layers of the rain forest, the fruits, nuts, and vegetables they provide, and what threatens their survival.
Download or read book The Rainforest Grew All Around written by Susan K. Mitchell and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children will delight in discovering the many plants and animals who call the rain forest home in a clever adaptation of the song The Green Grass Grows All Around.
Download or read book Rain Forest Plants written by Pamela Dell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells about a variety of rain forest plants, how they are used, why they are in danger, and how they are being protected.
Download or read book Trees and Plants in the Rain Forest written by Saviour Pirotta and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the different types of trees and plants that grow in the layers of the rain forest, the fruits, nuts, and vegetables they provide, and what threatens their survival.
Download or read book Rainforest Trees and Shrubs written by Gwen Jean Harden and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a field guide to the rainforest trees and shrubs of Victoria, NSW, and sub-tropical Queensland, using vegetative characters.
Download or read book The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest written by I. M. Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, 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, with particular emphasis on comparative ecology.
Download or read book Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants written by K.S. Bawa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-01-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants reviews recent developments in the reproductive ecology of tropical forest plants and explores the implications of current findings on forest structure, function, management, and conservation. It examines how insights gained from reproductive ecology can be helpful in the management of tropical forest resources and discusses directions of future research.
Download or read book The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rainforest Trees and Shrubs written by Gwen Harden and published by . This book was released on 1918-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd edition. An identification guide to rainforest trees and shrubs from Rockhampton to Victoria using vegetative features. Includes glossary and index of scientific and comon names of plants, also information on rainforest types used.
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Marius Jacobs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
Download or read book Tropical Rain Forests written by Richard T. Corlett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, have as many differences as similarities, as a result of their isolation from each other during the evolution of their floras and faunas. This new edition reinforces this message with new examples from recent and on-going research. After an introduction to the environments and geological histories of the major rain forest regions, subsequent chapters focus on plants, primates, carnivores and plant-eaters, birds, fruit bats and gliding animals, and insects, with an emphasis on the ecological and biogeographical differences between regions. This is followed by a new chapter on the unique tropical rain forests of oceanic islands. The final chapter, which has been completely rewritten, deals with the impacts of people on tropical rain forests and discusses possible conservation strategies that take into account the differences highlighted in the previous chapters. This exciting and very readable book, illustrated throughout with color photographs, will be invaluable reading for undergraduate students in a wide range of courses as well as an authoritative reference for graduate and professional ecologists, conservationists, and interested amateurs.
Download or read book Riches of the Rain Forest written by Wendy Veevers-Carter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even to a botanist, the rain forests of the tropics consist of a bewildering variety of plants and plant forms, most of them woody and tall and therefore bearing their flowers and fruits discretely out of sight in the dense, high canopy. Animal and bird life is arboreal, heard but not often seen, while the insects, fungi and bacteria at work are specialized studies in themselves. In this eminently readable book, the author brings together an interesting collection of vignettes on plant and animal life in the rain forests of Malaysia and Indonesia -- the richest in numbers of species in the world. Each plant chosen exemplifies some aspect of the wonderful web of rain forest life. Evolving and proliferating through millions of years, the complex interrelationships of a rain forest can be admired -- or destroyed -- by human beings, but never replaced. The author cogently illustrates the basic principles of rain forest ecology, which in its intricate complexity makes of any rain forest a wonder of the natural world, and uses examples throughout to develop a passionate plea for conservation. The book is elegantly illustrated with color plates drawn by Mohamed Anwar of the Bogor Herbarium and line drawings by the author herself.
Download or read book A Rain Forest Tree written by Lorien Kite and published by New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical rain forests are home to more than half the animals and plants on earth. A Rain Forest Tree takes a close-up look at the life that lives on and around a single tree from the heights of the canopy, down through the understory to the forest floor.
Download or read book At Home in the Rain Forest written by Diane Willow and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful color illustrations accompany an entertaining and informative text that takes us on an amazing journey through the forest. From the tops of the tropical trees to the forest floor, readers can observe the inter-relationships of plants and animals which thrive at each level of the rain forest.
Download or read book Rain Forests written by Nancy Smiler Levinson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to what a rain forest is and the kinds of plants and creatures that live in them.
Download or read book Gods Wasps and Stranglers written by Mike Shanahan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story.
Download or read book Life in a Rain Forest Ecosystem written by Janey Levy and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers learn how the environment of a rain forest ecosystem provides a unique home for many interesting plants and animals.
