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Tropical Forests in Transition

Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Johann Georg Goldammer

    1. Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department (Mainz), Fire Ecology and Biomass Burning Research Group, c/o University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Tropical Forests in Transition. Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes — An Introduction

    • Johann Georg Goldammer
    Pages 1-16

  3. Palynogogical Evidence Relating to Disturbance and Other Ecological Phenomena of Rain Forests

    • John R. Flenley
    Pages 17-24

  4. Holocene Autochthonous Forest Degradation in Southeast Venezuela

    • Horst Fölster
    Pages 25-44

  5. Vegetation, Megaherbivores, Man and Climate in the Quaternary and the Genesis of Closed Forests

    • Wilhelm Schüle
    Pages 45-76

  6. Succession After Disturbance of Lowland Mixed Dipterocarp Forest by Shifting Agriculture in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    • Soedarsono Riswan, Rochadi Abdulhadi
    Pages 77-84

  7. Degradation of a Forest in the Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya, as Initiated by Man and Maintained by Wildlife

    • Robert Schmidt
    Pages 85-104

  8. Anthropo-Zoogenic Impact on the Structure and Regeneration of a Submontane Forest in Kenya

    • Klaus Schmitt
    Pages 105-126

  9. Tropical Mountain Ecology in Ethiopia as a Basis for Conservation, Management and Restoration

    • Siegfried K. Uhlig
    Pages 127-134

  10. Forests for Integrated Land-Use Development in an Eastern Ethiopian Water Catchment

    • Holm Uibrig
    Pages 135-146

  11. Geoecological Consequences of Human Impacts on Forests in Sri Lanka

    • Christoph Preu, Walter Erdelen
    Pages 147-164

  12. Structure and Dynamics of the Upper Montane Rain Forests of Sri Lanka

    • Wolfgang L. Werner, Sinnathamby Balasubramaniam
    Pages 165-172

  13. A Research Perspective on Disturbance and Recovery of a Tropical Montane Forest

    • Robert B. Waide, Ariel E. Lugo
    Pages 173-190

  14. Process-Oriented Models for Simulation of Growth Dynamics of Tropical Natural and Plantation Forests

    • Heiner Schäfer, Holger Krieger, Hartmut Bossel
    Pages 191-224

  15. A Finite-Element Model to Simulate Spacial Distributions of Populations of Large Mammals

    • Achmed Schüle
    Pages 225-240

  16. The Role of the Tropics in the Global Carbon Budget: Impacts and Possible Developments

    • Gerd Esser
    Pages 241-252

  17. Modeling the Response of Terrestrial Vegetation to Climate Change in the Tropics

    • Thomas M. Smith, Jackson B. Smith Jr., Herman H. Shugart
    Pages 253-268

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 269-270
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About this book

In evolutionary time scales natural disturbances have affected the vegetation on Earth. During the Quaternary the forest biomes of the tropics were subjected to manifold disturbances. Climate changes and climate oscillations were associated with changing precipitation and drought regimes, flooding, siltation, landslides, etc. The prehistorical forest was also influenced by the effects of large wildlife populations. Large-scale catastrophies in the forest biomes were mainly caused by abiotic environmental alterations, the small-scale disturbances were and still are related to both biotic and abiotic processes. Both the large-and the small-scale disturbances have played a significant role in shaping distribution, dynamics, structure and composition of the paleoforest. After the expansion of hominids and early humans, and later, by modern humans, the anthropogenic influences on the tropical forest began to overlap natural disturbances. Today's anthropogenic impacts on the tropical forests differ qualitatively and quanitatively from the natural disturbances. The speed of tropical deforestation and savannization is dramatically increasing. The physical and chemical impacts of forest conversion and biomass burning add to other anthropogenic influences on the atmosphere and climate. The expected anthropogenic climate change will also have considerable impacts on the tropical flora and fauna. The book on "Tropical Forests in Transition" synthesizes information on changing environmental conditions and human impacts on the tropical forest by looking back to the paleoecology, analyzing the impact of modern human populations and modeling the future of the tropical forest in a changing environment. The aim of the book is to strengthen multidisciplinary thinking in disturbance ecology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department (Mainz), Fire Ecology and Biomass Burning Research Group, c/o University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Johann Georg Goldammer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tropical Forests in Transition

  • Book Subtitle: Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes

  • Editors: Johann Georg Goldammer

  • Series Title: Advances in Life Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7256-0

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-7258-4Published: 13 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-7256-0Published: 08 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 272

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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