Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia

Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia Exploring Tapovan

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Publisher's Synopsis

Informed by decades of researching tropical Asian forests, a comprehensive, up-to-date, and beautifully illustrated synthesis of the natural history of this unique place.
 
Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia invites readers on an expedition into the leafy, humid, forested landscapes of tropical Asia-the so-called tapovan, a Sanskrit word for the forest where knowledge is attained through tapasya, or inner struggle. Peter Ashton and David Lee, two of the world's leading scholars on Asian tropical rain forests, reveal the geology and climate that have produced these unique forests, the diversity of species that inhabit them, the means by which rain forest tree species evolve to achieve unique ecological space, and the role of humans in modifying the landscapes over centuries. Following Peter Ashton's extensive On the Forests of Tropical Asia, the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region from India east to New Guinea, this new book provides a more condensed and updated overview of tropical Asian forests written accessibly for students as well as tropical forest biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists.

Book information

ISBN: 9780226535555
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Imprint: The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 634.9095
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xv, 460
Weight: 975g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 38mm