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"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 log…
This edition has been fully updated throughout, reflecting the explosion of new research in the region in the last few years and the increasing use of new tools, particularly genomics and remote sensing.
Featuring examples from across the tropics, this book introduces the climate, biogeographic history and environment of tropical rain forests, considers the impact of people on tropical forests and discusses conservation strategies based on the characteristics of individual regio…
Examines the evolutionary distinctions among the rainforests of the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, due to the separate development of their flora and fauna.
Examines the evolutionary distinctions among the rainforests of the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, due to the separate development of their flora and fauna.