Tropical Grazing Lands - Communities and Constituent Species (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974)

1.1 Objective and scope These chapters are not intended as a treatise on range management of tropical grazing lands, nor on the agronomy of sown pastures and cultivated fodder crops, aspects of applied science that are only one stage above scientific farming and use of land. An attempt is made to present the vegetation sciences, or botany and ecology in their widest aspects, as the essential background for their application in economic land use and plant and animal husbandry. The basic thesis is that science is global, but that its practical application is restricted to specific biological and socio economic habitats. The region covered is termed the intertropical zone. This comprises the equatorial latitudes, the tropics and subtropics. It is not only that part of the globe lying between latitudes 30 Degrees north and south of the Equator, as proposed by some writers (DAVIES, W., 1960; repeated by DAVIES & SKIDMORE, 1966). Rather is it those regions of the world in which, at the lower elevations, certain families and members of the Gramineae and Leguminosae grow wild or can be cultivated. It may be a matter for discussion whether these plants in their wild communities or sown or planted crop mixtures are better indicators of a biological environment than the instruments and criteria of the meteorologists.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	June 1974
First published:	1974
Authors:	R. O. Whyte
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974
ISBN-13:	978-90-6193-020-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General
LSN:	90-6193-020-0
Barcode:	9789061930204

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