Ebook: Tropical Forests in Transition: Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes

Tropical Forests in Transition: Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes — An Introduction.- Palynological Evidence Relating to Disturbance and Other Ecological Phenomena of Rain Forests.- Holocene Autochthonous Forest Degradation in Southeast Venezuela.- Vegetation, Megaherbivores, Man and Climate in the Quaternary and the Genesis of Closed Rain Forests.- Succession After Disturbance of Lowland Mixed Dipterocarp Forest by Shifting Agriculture in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.- Degradation of a Forest in the Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya, as Initiated by Man and Maintained by Wildlife.- Anthropo-Zoogenic Impact on the Structure and Regeneration of a Submontane Forest in Kenya.- Tropical Mountain Ecology in Ethiopia as a Basis of Conservation, Management and Restoration.- Forests for Integrated Land-Use Development in an Eastern Ethiopian Water Catchment.- Geoecological Consequences of Human Impacts on Forests in Sri Lanka.- Structure and Dynamics of the Upper Montane Rain Forests of Sri Lanka.- A Research Perspective on Disturbance and Recovery of a Tropical Montane Forest.- Process-Oriented Models for Simulation of Growth Dynamics of Tropical Natural and Plantation Forests.- A Finite-Element Model to Simulate Spacial Distributions of Populations of Large Mammals.- The Role of the Tropics in the Global Carbon Budget: Impacts and Possible Developments.- Modeling the Response of Terrestrial Vegetation to Climate Change in the Tropics.