Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene
González, Grizelle
Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019 - 1 electronic resource (242 p.)
Open Access
This Special Issue looks forward as well as backward to best analyze the forest conservation challenges of the Caribbean. This is made possible by 75 years of research and applications by the United States Department of Agriculture, International Institute of Tropical Forestry (the Institute) of Puerto Rico. It transforms Holocene-based scientific paradigms of the tropics into Anthropocene applications and outlooks of wilderness, managed forests, and urban environments. This volume showcases how the focus of the Institute's programs is evolving to support sustainable tropical forest conservation despite uncertain conditions. The manuscripts showcased here highlight the importance of shared stewardship and a long-term, hands-on approach to conservation, research programs, and novel organizations intended to meet contemporary conservation challenges. Policies relevant to the Anthropocene, as well as the use of experiments to anticipate future responses of tropical forests to global warming, are reexamined in these pages. Urban topics include how cities can co-produce new knowledge to spark sustainable and resilient transformations. Long-term results and research applications of topics such as soil biota, migratory birds, tropical vegetation, substrate chemistry, and the tropical carbon cycle are also described in the volume. Moreover, the question of how to best use land on a tropical island is addressed. This volume is intended to be of interest to all actors involved in long-term sustainable forest management and research in light of the historical lessons and future directions that may come out of a better understanding of tropical cities and forests in the Anthropocene epoch.
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books978-3-03921-965-0 9783039219650 9783039219643
10.3390/books978-3-03921-965-0 doi
n/a Ca/Al relationship soil organic carbon trees N/P ratios humid tropical forests ?15N element concentration leaf C and N densities tropical deforestation tropical forest area hurricane U.S. Forest Service Planning Rule El Yunque National Forest conservation leaf mass per area knowledge infrastructures knowledge systems idiom of co-production disturbance Puerto Rico novel forests annual cycle latitude experiments Tropical Forest Management secondary forests mature forests American tropics stoichiometry of leaf litter allometry communications contemporary conservation and N/P ratios succession photosynthetic nitrogen use-efficiency biomass litter basal area knowledge systems analysis tropical Long-Term Ecological Research naturalized species Guánica Caribbean knowledge co-production C/N C/P volume expansion factors tropical forest wood strategic teams dry tropical forests tree plantations species composition climate change cities Tropical Forest Conservation Nearctic-Neotropical vision forest inventory data large-scale tropical forest management microbiota soil biota adaptive management Luquillo Experimental Forest Tropical Forestry Research nitrogen fixing trees species dominance long-term ecological research network governance leadership Forest Service ?13C elevation Anthropocene tropical karst geospatial analyses manipulations gradients landscape conservation element concentration in leaf litter tropical agriculture land use planning tropical forests carry over effects invertebrates introduced species land use governance long-term
Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019 - 1 electronic resource (242 p.)
Open Access
This Special Issue looks forward as well as backward to best analyze the forest conservation challenges of the Caribbean. This is made possible by 75 years of research and applications by the United States Department of Agriculture, International Institute of Tropical Forestry (the Institute) of Puerto Rico. It transforms Holocene-based scientific paradigms of the tropics into Anthropocene applications and outlooks of wilderness, managed forests, and urban environments. This volume showcases how the focus of the Institute's programs is evolving to support sustainable tropical forest conservation despite uncertain conditions. The manuscripts showcased here highlight the importance of shared stewardship and a long-term, hands-on approach to conservation, research programs, and novel organizations intended to meet contemporary conservation challenges. Policies relevant to the Anthropocene, as well as the use of experiments to anticipate future responses of tropical forests to global warming, are reexamined in these pages. Urban topics include how cities can co-produce new knowledge to spark sustainable and resilient transformations. Long-term results and research applications of topics such as soil biota, migratory birds, tropical vegetation, substrate chemistry, and the tropical carbon cycle are also described in the volume. Moreover, the question of how to best use land on a tropical island is addressed. This volume is intended to be of interest to all actors involved in long-term sustainable forest management and research in light of the historical lessons and future directions that may come out of a better understanding of tropical cities and forests in the Anthropocene epoch.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03921-965-0 9783039219650 9783039219643
10.3390/books978-3-03921-965-0 doi
n/a Ca/Al relationship soil organic carbon trees N/P ratios humid tropical forests ?15N element concentration leaf C and N densities tropical deforestation tropical forest area hurricane U.S. Forest Service Planning Rule El Yunque National Forest conservation leaf mass per area knowledge infrastructures knowledge systems idiom of co-production disturbance Puerto Rico novel forests annual cycle latitude experiments Tropical Forest Management secondary forests mature forests American tropics stoichiometry of leaf litter allometry communications contemporary conservation and N/P ratios succession photosynthetic nitrogen use-efficiency biomass litter basal area knowledge systems analysis tropical Long-Term Ecological Research naturalized species Guánica Caribbean knowledge co-production C/N C/P volume expansion factors tropical forest wood strategic teams dry tropical forests tree plantations species composition climate change cities Tropical Forest Conservation Nearctic-Neotropical vision forest inventory data large-scale tropical forest management microbiota soil biota adaptive management Luquillo Experimental Forest Tropical Forestry Research nitrogen fixing trees species dominance long-term ecological research network governance leadership Forest Service ?13C elevation Anthropocene tropical karst geospatial analyses manipulations gradients landscape conservation element concentration in leaf litter tropical agriculture land use planning tropical forests carry over effects invertebrates introduced species land use governance long-term