Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests A Practitioner's Guide to Forest Genetics

Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests A Practitioner's Guide to Forest Genetics / edited by Ratnam Wickneswari, Chuck Cannon.

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees and how management systems in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wickneswari, Ratnam (Editor), Cannon, Chuck (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Forestry management.
Plant genetics.
Trees.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Forest management systems in Southeast Asia
  • Biogeographic history of Southeast Asian forests
  • Long-term dynamics of forest history and phenotypic evolution
  • Gene flow and inheritance in natural populations of trees
  • Threats to genetic viability of Southeast Asian forest species
  • The importance of wildlife for forests
  • Synthesis and options for sustainable management.-.

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