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Historically, the conservation of forests and wildlife has focused on the creation of national parks and reserves. However, only 9% of protected areas are larger than 14,000 hectares, likely making them too small to conserve ecosystem services and prevent loss of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-16
Collection :
Conservation Science and Practice
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The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-06
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From enhancing the flavour of food to providing a substrate for fermentation, sugar is renowned worldwide for its importance as a commodity. For many centuries sugarcane has been cultivated and developed, and we now have a huge range of crop varieties. Based on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
World Agriculture Series
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Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution. In this text/reference, the authors describe in terms of agroecology the tropical environments of sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-09-18
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