This book presents a timely collection of pioneering work in the study of these diverse and fascinating ecosystems. It consists of facsimiles of papers chosen b

Importance pf tropical forests; characteristics of tropical forests; classification of tropical forests; deforestation in the tropics; management of tropical fo

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that th

Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of stu

The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity.