Tropical Forest Community Ecology (eBook)

The final section of this volume (Chapters 22–28) would shock a 1970s graduate student. A potential tropical deforestation crisis was only first publicized in the early 1970s (Gómez-Pompaet al. 1972 Science 177, 762–765). The severity of deforestation in 2007 and the many exacer bating problems (Chapters 24, 26 and 27) would be entirely unexpected. The potential for solutions through natural secondary succession on abandoned agricultural land (Chapters 22 and 23) and conservation action (Chapter 25) proposed, in some cases, by my peers from the late 1970s on BCI would be equally surprising and heartening.

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