Second growth : the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation /
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| Author / Creator: | Chazdon, Robin Lee, 1957- author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. ©2014 |
| Description: | xx, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10037003 |
| Summary: | For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth , Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth.<br> <br> Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating--or second-growth--forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of biodiversity and environmental services. What is more, they always have been.<br> <br> With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and restoration pathways, but also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-429) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226117911 022611791X 9780226118079 022611807X 9780226118109 |
