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Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia
Peter AshtonDavid Lee
其他書名
Exploring Tapovan
出版University of Chicago Press, 2022-10-21
主題Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & RainforestsScience / Life Sciences / BotanyNature / Ecology
ISBN022653572X9780226535722
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q7ySEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Informed by decades of researching tropical Asian forests, a comprehensive, up-to-date, and beautifully illustrated synthesis of the natural history of this unique place.
 
Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia invites readers on an expedition into the leafy, humid, forested landscapes of tropical Asia—the so-called tapovan, a Sanskrit word for the forest where knowledge is attained through tapasya, or inner struggle. Peter Ashton and David Lee, two of the world’s leading scholars on Asian tropical rain forests, reveal the geology and climate that have produced these unique forests, the diversity of species that inhabit them, the means by which rain forest tree species evolve to achieve unique ecological space, and the role of humans in modifying the landscapes over centuries. Following Peter Ashton’s extensive On the Forests of Tropical Asia, the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region from India east to New Guinea, this new book provides a more condensed and updated overview of tropical Asian forests written accessibly for students as well as tropical forest biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists.