TY  - GEN
AU  - González,Grizelle
AU  - Lugo,Ariel
TI  - Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene
SN  - books978-3-03921-965-0
PY  - 2019///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - n/a
KW  - Ca/Al relationship
KW  - soil organic carbon
KW  - trees
KW  - N/P ratios
KW  - humid tropical forests
KW  - ?15N
KW  - element concentration
KW  - leaf C and N densities
KW  - tropical deforestation
KW  - tropical forest area
KW  - hurricane
KW  - U.S. Forest Service Planning Rule
KW  - El Yunque National Forest
KW  - conservation
KW  - leaf mass per area
KW  - knowledge infrastructures
KW  - knowledge systems
KW  - idiom of co-production
KW  - disturbance
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - novel forests
KW  - annual cycle
KW  - latitude
KW  - experiments
KW  - Tropical Forest Management
KW  - secondary forests
KW  - mature forests
KW  - American tropics
KW  - stoichiometry of leaf litter
KW  - allometry
KW  - communications
KW  - contemporary conservation
KW  - and N/P ratios
KW  - succession
KW  - photosynthetic nitrogen use-efficiency
KW  - biomass
KW  - litter
KW  - basal area
KW  - knowledge systems analysis
KW  - tropical
KW  - Long-Term Ecological Research
KW  - naturalized species
KW  - Guánica
KW  - Caribbean
KW  - knowledge co-production
KW  - C/N
KW  - C/P
KW  - volume expansion factors
KW  - tropical forest
KW  - wood
KW  - strategic teams
KW  - dry tropical forests
KW  - tree plantations
KW  - species composition
KW  - climate change
KW  - cities
KW  - Tropical Forest Conservation
KW  - Nearctic-Neotropical
KW  - vision
KW  - forest inventory data
KW  - large-scale
KW  - tropical forest management
KW  - microbiota
KW  - soil biota
KW  - adaptive management
KW  - Luquillo Experimental Forest
KW  - Tropical Forestry Research
KW  - nitrogen fixing trees
KW  - species dominance
KW  - long-term ecological research
KW  - network governance
KW  - leadership
KW  - Forest Service
KW  - ?13C
KW  - elevation
KW  - Anthropocene
KW  - tropical karst
KW  - geospatial analyses
KW  - manipulations
KW  - gradients
KW  - landscape conservation
KW  - element concentration in leaf litter
KW  - tropical agriculture
KW  - land use planning
KW  - tropical forests
KW  - carry over effects
KW  - invertebrates
KW  - introduced species
KW  - land use governance
KW  - long-term
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1902
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/61361
ER  -