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Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Ecological Studies, 112
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Forestry professors used to remind students that, whereas
physicians bury their mistakes, foresters die before theirs are
noticed. But good institutions live longer than the scientists who
contribute to building them, and the half-century of work of the
USDA Forest Service's Institute of Tropical Forestry (ITF) is in
plain view: an unprecedented corpus of accomplishments that would
instill pride in any organization. There is scarcely anyone
interested in current issues of tropical forestry who would not
benefit from a refresher course in ITF's findings: its early
collaboration with farmers to establish plantations, its successes
in what we now call social forestry, its continuous improvement of
nursery practices, its screening trials of native species, its
development of wood-processing technologies appropriate for
developing countries, its thorough analysis of tropical forest
function, and its holistic approach toward conservation of
endangered species. Fortunately, ITF has a long history of
information exchange through teaching; like many others, I got my
own start in tropical forest ecology fromjust such a course in
Puerto Rico. And long before politicians recognized the global
importance of tropical forestry, the ITF staff served actively as
ambassadors of the discipline, visiting tropical coun tries
everywhere to learn and, when invited to do so, to help solve local
problems. It is a general principle of biogeography that species'
turnover rates on islands are higher than those on continents.
Inevitably, the same is true of scientists assigned to work on
islands."
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