Seasonally dry tropical forests

By:

Bullock, Stephen H

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.Description: xvii, 450 p. : illustrationsISBN:

0521435145
9780521435147

DDC classification:

634.9 SEA

Contents:

Introduction / Harold A. Mooney -- Dry forests of Central America and the Caribean / Peter G. Murphy --Overview of the Brazilian caatinga / Everardo V.S.B. Sampaio -- Savannas, woodlands and dry forests in Africa / J.C. Menaut -- Dry forest ecosystems of Thailand / Philip W. Rundel -- The Cenozoic record of tropical dry forest in northern Latin America and the southern United States / Alan Graham -- Diversity and and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests / Alwyn H. Gentry -- Vertebrate diversity, ecology and conservation in neotropical dry forests / Gerardo Ceballos -- Diversity of life forms of Higher plants in neotropical dry forests / Ernesto Medina -- Drought responses of neotropical dry forest trees / Michele Holbrook -- Plant reproduction in neotropical dry forests / Stephen H. Bullock -- Plant-herbivore interactions in Mesoamerican tropical dry forests / Rodolfo Dirzo -- Biomass distribution and primary productivityof tropical dry forests / Angelina Martinez-Yrizar -- Nutrient cycling in tropical decciduous forests / Victor J. Jaramillo -- Biology of the belowground system of tropical dry forests / Elvira Cuevas -- -- Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest s ecosystem / Pamela A. Matson -- Conversion of tropical dry forests to pasture and agriculture / J. Manuel Maass -- Ethnobotany of the Mexican tropical dry forests / Robert Bye.

Summary: Review of tropical dry forest biogeography, palaeontology, ecology and ecosystem functions.

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Included Index

Introduction / Harold A. Mooney --
Dry forests of Central America and the Caribean / Peter G. Murphy --Overview of the Brazilian caatinga / Everardo V.S.B. Sampaio --
Savannas, woodlands and dry forests in Africa / J.C. Menaut --
Dry forest ecosystems of Thailand / Philip W. Rundel --
The Cenozoic record of tropical dry forest in northern Latin America and the southern United States / Alan Graham --
Diversity and and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests / Alwyn H. Gentry --
Vertebrate diversity, ecology and conservation in neotropical dry forests / Gerardo Ceballos --
Diversity of life forms of Higher plants in neotropical dry forests / Ernesto Medina --
Drought responses of neotropical dry forest trees / Michele Holbrook --
Plant reproduction in neotropical dry forests / Stephen H. Bullock --
Plant-herbivore interactions in Mesoamerican tropical dry forests / Rodolfo Dirzo --
Biomass distribution and primary productivityof tropical dry forests / Angelina Martinez-Yrizar --
Nutrient cycling in tropical decciduous forests / Victor J. Jaramillo --
Biology of the belowground system of tropical dry forests / Elvira Cuevas --
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Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest s ecosystem / Pamela A. Matson --
Conversion of tropical dry forests to pasture and agriculture / J. Manuel Maass --
Ethnobotany of the Mexican tropical dry forests / Robert Bye.

Review of tropical dry forest biogeography, palaeontology, ecology and ecosystem functions.

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