Tropical forest genetics /

Tropical forest genetics /

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Author / Creator:Finkeldey, Reiner.
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 315 p.) : ill., maps.
Language:English
Series:Tropical forestry, 1614-9785
Tropical forestry.
Subject:
Forest genetics -- Tropics.
Trees -- Tropics -- Genetics.
Trees -- Tropics -- Reproduction.
Tropical plants -- Genetics.
Tropical plants -- Reproduction.
Forest genetics.
Trees -- Genetics.
Trees -- Reproduction.
Tropics.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8881853
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Other authors / contributors:Hattemer, H. H.
ISBN:9783540373988
3540373985
Notes:Based on lecture notes prepared for post-graduate students of the M. Sc. course "Tropical and International Forestry" at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-305) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:Describes the evolutionary processes in both untouched and managed forests, as well as the role of genetics in plantation forestry and conservation. This book provides a scientific basis for researchers, practitioners and students interested in the application of genetic principles to tropical forest ecology and management.
Other form:Print version: Finkeldey, Reiner. Tropical forest genetics. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007 3540373969 9783540373964
Table of Contents:
  • Population genetics : an overview
  • Genetic variation of tropical forest plants
  • Sexual and asexual reproduction in tropical forests
  • Gene flow and migration
  • Mating systems
  • Adaptation and coevolution
  • Phylogenies and evolution above the species level
  • Fragmentation of forests
  • Genetic aspects of the management of natural tropical forests
  • Provenance research
  • Domestication and breeding of tropical forest trees
  • Genetic aspects of plantation forestry in the Tropics
  • Conservation of genetic resources in tropical forest trees.

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