The Ecology of Tropical East Asia

by Richard T. Corlett

Book Overview

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its forest cover to agriculture and urbanization, and has the highest rates of deforestation and logging in the tropics. Habitat loss, coupled with hunting and the relentless trade in wildlife products, threatens all its large and many of its smaller vertebrates. Despite these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198817010
• ISBN13: 9780198817017
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 9.8"