Dipterocarp Biology, Ecology, and Conservation

by Jaboury Ghazoul

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other families contribute to Asia's natural diversity, but few compare to the dipterocarps in terms of the number and variety of species that occupy the forest canopy. Understanding the ecology and dynamics of Asian forests is therefore, to a large extent, a study of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199639655
• ISBN13: 9780199639656
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.7"