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Recent
Forestry Books
 Silvopastoralism
and Sustainable Land Management
Edited by M R Mosquera-Losada, and A Riguerio, University of Santiago de
Compostela, Spain, and J McAdam, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
December 2005 432 pages HB ISBN 1 84593 001 0
Special Discount Price: £60.00 (Normal Price:
£75.00)
Readership:
Researchers in agroforestry, plant and soil
science, ecology and land management.
Description:
Agroforestry and silvopasture are ancient yet
sustainable ways of managing forestland. They increase productivity in the
short, medium and long terms, compared with forestland, and have a higher
level of biodiversity than farmland. This book, containing over 125 papers
presented at an international conference held in Spain in April 2004,
examines the productivity and quality of silvopastoral systems and
outlines successful ways of managing forestry and agronomic areas. It
examines the ecological benefits of silvopastoral systems and their
cultural, economic, and social implications. The final section of the book
evaluates these systems within a global context.
 Land
Use Changes in Tropical Watersheds: Evidence, Causes and Remedies
Edited by G E Shively, Purdue University, USA, and I Coxhead, University
of Wisconsin, USA
December 2005 208 pages HB ISBN 0 85199 912 3
Special Discount Price: £40.00 (Normal Price:
£49.95)
Readership:
Students and researchers in natural resource
economics, soil, water, land use and development studies.
Description:
This book studies land use change in tropical
landscapes, with particular emphasis on the economic processes that
influence rates of land degradation and forest clearing. Multidisciplinary
contributions draw lessons from a rich, decade-long collection of
economic, social and environmental data on the Manupali upland watershed
in the southern Philippines. Through this detailed case study the book
documents forces leading to land use changes, in particular the potential
impacts of institutional evolution and policy reforms, and highlights
interrelationships between biological, economic, and social phenomena. It
is the result of a long-term project from the Sustainable Agriculture and
Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM
CRSP), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
 Forestry and Environmental
Change: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions
IUFRO
Series, No . 11
Edited by J L Innes, University of British Columbia, Canada, G Hickey,
University of British Columbia, Canada, H F Hoen, Agricultural Univeristy
of Norway, Norway
October 2005 256 pages HB ISBN 0 85199 002
9
Special discount price:
£40.00 (Normal price £49.95)
Readership:
Advanced students and
researchers in forestry, climate change and natural resource economics.
Description:
Drawing on a host of international case-studies, this detailed book
examines the interactions between forestry and environmental change, from
a social, economic and political perspective. It presents novel insights
into little-studied topics such as the influence of forest reserves on
timber prices, the relationship between forestry and aboriginal
populations, the certification of forest management and wood products, and
the issues facing forests in transition countries. It also brings together
the latest thinking on a wide range of topics including deforestation in
temperate and tropical forests, the application of forest zoning as an
alternative to multiple use forestry, capital management, establishment of
large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests and social
revolutions in forest management.
The Measurement of
Roundwood: Methodologies and Conversion Ratios
M A
Fonseca, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Trade and Timber
Branch, Geneva, Switzerland
October 2005 288 pages HB ISBN 0 85199 079
7
Special discount price:
£44.00 (Normal price: £55.00)
Readership:
Advanced students,
researchers and practitioners in forestry and forest products industries.
Description:
This book provides a
comprehensive guide to the various methods by which roundwood and the
products of roundwood are measured around the world. It presents and
compares many different log scaling methods in terms of procedures and
conversion ratios. Topics covered include grading logs, log manufacturing
quality, statistical sampling methods and methods for determining log yard
inventories and mill log usage volume. Detailed tables of data, covering
characteristics, and log weight to volume ratios, are presented for the
main commercial timber species of the world. The drivers of roundwood
product recovery are also discussed and illustrated with numerous graphs
and tables.
Forestry in a Global
Context
by R Sands, New Zealand School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand
August 2005 272 pages PB
ISBN 0 85199 089 4
Special Discount Price:
£20.00 (Normal Price £25.00)
Readership: Students of
forestry and related disciplines such as conservation, geography, plant
science and socioeconomics.
Description:
This introductory textbook
sets world forestry in the context of social, environmental, historical,
economic and conservation issues. It explores how people relate to forests
and how forests have been used from the time of hunter-gatherers up to the
present day. Using extensive case-studies, it introduces students to a
host of essential forestry topics including: the development of forests,
grassland and humans from the Devonian through to the Age of Agriculture;
the factors determining the distribution of forests; the classification of
forest types; the value and benefits of the forest; and the products of
the forest and their associated trade. It also examines the issues of
sustainable forest management, current patterns of deforestation and
reforestation, and future challenges facing our forests.
Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar
Edited by M H Pei, Rothamsted
Research, Harpenden, UK, and A R McCracken, Queen's University, Belfast,
UK
July 2005 288 pages HB
ISBN 0 85199 999 9
Special discount price:
£60.00 (Normal Price: £75.00)
Readership: Researchers and
advanced students in forestry and plant pathology.
Description:
This book provides a comprehensive review of over two decades of extensive
study of the rust diseases affecting willow and poplar. It provides
insights into the population biology of Melampsora rusts in Europe, China,
India and Chile, the genetics of their resistance, and their interaction
with their hosts. The book offers information essential to the development
of effective and sustainable disease control measures including the use of
willow genotype mixtures and biological control agents.
Valuing Mediterranean
Forests: Towards Total Economic Value
Edited by M Merlo and L
Croitoru, University of Padua, Italy
April 2005 448 pages HB ISBN 0 85199
997 2
Special
discount price: £60.00 (Normal price £75.00)
Readership: Students, practitioners and policy-makers in forestry,
environmental and natural resource economics.
Description: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic
value of Mediterranean forests, including not only the more obvious
benefits (e.g. timber), but also the less commonly-measured public goods
(e.g. tourism and conservation) that these forests provide. It brings
together forest valuations at the national level from eighteen
Mediterranean countries, based on extensive local data collection, and
thus allows comprehensive analyses within countries as well as comparative
analyses across countries. The book explores the research findings in the
context of the institutions and policies that affect Mediterranean forests
and proposes new policy approaches for improving forest policies and
management at the national, regional and local levels.
Mycorrhizas:
Anatomy and Cell Biology
R L Peterson, University of
Guelph, Canada, H B Massicotte, University of Northern British Columbia,
Canada, L H Melville, University of Guelph, Canada
August 2004 196 pages PB ISBN: 0 85199 901
8
Special discount price: £32.00
(Normal price £40.00)
Readership: Plant and
soil science, forestry and mycology
Not available from CABI in
Canada
Description:
Symbiotic relations between
roots and fungi (mycorrhizas) are the most prevalent symbiotic systems on
earth. For example, mycorrhizas increase nutrient uptake from soil, assist
in the biocontrol of pathogenic fungi and nematodes, and have a positive
effect on the establishment of plant communities. Mycorrhizal associations
can be found in all ecosystems and in important forest and crop species.
This book provides a summary of all the mycorrhizal categories from a
morphological and anatomical perspective.
Forest Biodiversity:
Lessons from History for Conservation
Edited by O Honnay, K Verheyen, B Bossuyt and M Hermy, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Laboratory
for Forest, Nature and Landscape Research, Leuven, Belgium
IUFRO Research Series No.10
March 2004 230
Pages HB ISBN: 085199802X
Special discount price: £48.00 (Normal price £60.00)
Readership: Forestry,
ecology, conservation and environmental history.
Description
This book develops this field
of interest by focusing on the diverse impact of forest history in
general, and of forest continuity, fragmentation and past management in
particular, on the diversity and distribution of species. The implications
for the conservation of biodiversity in forests are also addressed.
Chapters have been developed from papers presented at a conference held in
Leuven in January 2003. The emphasis is on temperate forests in Europe and
North America, but the information may also be applicable to other regions
or biomes.
Biodiversity of West
African Forests: An Ecological Atlas of Woody Plant Species
Edited by L Poorter and F Bongers, Wageningen University, The Netherlands,
F N Kouamé, University of Cocody, Coté d'Ivoire and W D Hawthorne, Oxford
Forestry Institute, University of Oxford, UK
January 2004 528
Pages HB ISBN: 0851997341
Special discount price: £68.00 (Normal price £85.00)
Readership: This book
will appeal to researchers working in forestry, biodiversity, plant
ecology and conservation.
The rain forests of West
Africa have been designated as one of the world's hotspots of
biodiversity. They extend from Ghana to Senegal and are referred to as the
Upper Guinean forests. Because of their isolated
position, they harbour a large
number of rare and endemic animal and plant species. This book focuses on
the biodiversity and ecology of these forests. It analyses the factors
that give rise to biodiversity and structure tropical plant communities.
It also includes an atlas with ecological profiles of rare plant species
and large timber species.
Forests at the
Land–Atmosphere Interface
Edited by M Mencuccini, J Moncrieff, K McNaughton and J Grace of Institute
of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
Scotland
December 2003 304
Pages HB ISBN: 0851996779
Special discount price: £48.00 (Normal price £60.00)
Readership: Researchers
in forestry, ecology, environmental sciences and natural resources.
Forest ecosystems exist at the
interface between the land and the atmosphere. Understanding the
properties of this planetary boundary layer is very important for a number
of related disciplines. This book presents an overview of topics that are
of significance at this interface, starting at the scale of intra-leaf
organelles, ranging to higher levels of organisation such as communities
and ecosystems. It covers topics such as stomatal functioning, large scale
processes, radiation modelling, forest meteorology and carbon
sequestration. Based on proceedings of a conference to mark the retirement
of Professor Paul Jarvis from the University of Edinburgh, the book
contains contributions from leading international scientists.
Modelling Forest Systems
A Amaro, Instituto Superior de Gestao, Lisbon, Portugal, D Reed, Michigan
Technological University, USA and P Soares, Instituto Superior de
Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal
August 2003 432
Pages HB ISBN: 0851996930
Special discount price: £60.00 (Normal price £75.00)
Readership: Researchers
in forestry, ecology and the environmental sciences.
There are many theoretical
approaches to modelling forest systems, but not all of them have valid
practical applications. This book reviews current thinking on various
models and explores a variety of areas and approaches. The papers in this
book have been selected and developed from those presented at a workshop
held in Portugal in June 2002. The topics covered include: forest reality
and modelling strategies; mathematical approaches and reasoning;
estimation processes models; validation and decision under uncertainty and
model archives and metadata.
Trees, Crops and Soil
Fertility: Concepts and Research Methods
Edited by G Schroth, National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Manaus,
Brazil and F L Sinclair, School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences,
University of Wales, Bangor, UK
February 2003 448
Pages HB ISBN: 0851995934
Special discount price: £52.00 (Normal price £65.00)
Readership: Advanced
students and researchers - forestry, crop sciences, ecology and soil
science.
Successful agroforestry
requires an understanding of the complex relationship between trees, crops
and soils. This book provides a review of both economic and biophysical
aspects of soil use and research in agroforestry, with an emphasis on
nutrient-poor forest and savanna soils. Key topics covered include the
economics of soil fertility management, cycling of water, nutrients and
organic matter, soil structure, and soil biological processes. The book
combines synthetic overviews of research results and a review of methods
used in research.
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