Tropical Forests in Transition: Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes

by Johann Georg Goldammer

In evolutionary time scales natural disturbances have affected the vegetation on Earth. During the Quaternary the forest biomes of the tropics were subjected to manifold disturbances. Climate changes and climate oscillations were associated with changing precipitation and drought regimes, flooding, siltation, landslides, etc. The prehistorical forest was also influenced by the effects of large wildlife populations. Large-scale catastrophies in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034872585
• ISBN13: 9783034872584
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"