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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Southwest, published by University of Arizona on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 2860 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A Surreal garden in Alamos, Mexico.
Author: Lauri Macmillan Johnson
Publication: Journal of the Southwest (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: University of Arizona
Volume: 45Issue: 1-2Page: 249(13)

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on August 1, 1995. The length of the article is 4294 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Indigenous environmental activism has been proven by Samoans. In the village of Falealupo in Savaii, Western Samoa, local residents cooperated with an ethnobotanist to prevent loggers from further destroying the rainforest.

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Title: Samoans fight loggers - and win.
Author: Dave Tennenbaum
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1995
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: v6Issue: n4Page: p16(1)

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This digital document is an article from Natural Life, published by Life Media on May 1, 2001. The length of the article is 465 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Milestone reached in protecting Canada's rainforest.
Publication: Natural Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: Life Media
Issue: 79Page: 12

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on August 1, 1994. The length of the article is 5282 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Poor Panamanians are using slash-and-burn agricultural techniques in the country's rain forest to plant banana trees and raise cattle. This is threatening the 900 bird species and 1200 tree species that flourish there. The Association for the Conservation of Nature is working to stop this.

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Title: Protecting Panama; the land made famous by Noriega needs to protect its rainforests. (Manuel Antonio Noriega)
Author: Will Nixon
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1994
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: v5Issue: n4Page: p20(3)

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This digital document is an article from Hawaii Business, published by Hawaii Business Publishing Co. on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Watershed Events.(partnerships for conservation)(Brief Article)
Author: David K. Choo
Publication: Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
Volume: 46Issue: 5Page: 62

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on June 1, 2000. The length of the article is 455 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Dominican Republic, a Country between Rain Forest and Desert: Contributions to the Ecology of a Caribbean Island.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Kenneth H. Orvis
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2000
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 166Issue: 2Page: 181

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1612 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Trading companies from Colombia and other South American countries are planning to complete the Pan-Amerian Highway through a road construction project in the forest area. However, opposition from indigenous groups residing in the Darien is threatening construction. The highway, which stretches from Alaska to the Strait of Magellan, may cause serious damage to the forest ecology as well as to the culture of the Kuna and Choco people. As a result, the companies have opted to use alternative routes that will have the least impact on the forest ecosystem.

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Title: Pandora's American highway. (Pan-American Highway)
Author: Elena Wilken
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: v7Issue: n6Page: p6(2)

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This digital document is an article from Instructor (1990), published by Scholastic, Inc. on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 481 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Into the Amazon. (Cyberhunt Reproducible).(Brief Article)
Author: Philip Stevens
Publication: Instructor (1990) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 111Issue: 7Page: 78(2)

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on February 1, 1994. The length of the article is 421 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Peten, Guatemala, has recently been opened to oil exploration. The environmental impact on Peten's tropical forests, which contain many endangered and rare animals, has been ignored due to the need for economic development in the area.

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Title: Guatemala: trading the rainforest for oil?
Author: Robert Bryce
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1994
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: v5Issue: n1Page: p11(2)

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This digital document is an article from American Scientist, published by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4255 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conserving biodiversity coldspots: recent calls to direct conservation funding to the world's biodiversity hotspots may be bad investment advice.
Author: Peter Kareiva
Publication: American Scientist (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Volume: 91Issue: 4Page: 344(8)

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 8460 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Climatic patterns in a tropical rainforest in Brunei.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: A.p. Dykes
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 166Issue: 1Page: 63

Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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This digital document is an article from Kids Discover, published by Kids Discover on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 551 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Insect Variety.
Publication: Kids Discover (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Kids Discover
Volume: 9Issue: 9Page: 4

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Taking readers out of the laboratory and into the humid tropical forests, this comprehensive volume explores the most recent advancesoccurring in tropical plant ecophysiology. Drawing on the knowledgeof leading practitioners in the field, this book synthesizes a broadrange of information on the ways in which tropical plants adapt totheir environment and demonstrate unique physiological processes.This book is arranged into four sections which cover resource acquisition, species interactions, ecophysiological patterns within and among tropical forest communities, and the ecophysiology of forest regeneration. These sections describe plant function in relation to ecology across a wide spectrum of tropical forest species and growth forms. How do different species harvest and utilize resources from heterogeneous tropical environments? How do patterns of functional diversity reflect the overwhelming taxonomic and morphological diversity of tropical forest plants? Such fundamental questions are examined in rich detail. To illuminate the discussions further, every chapter in this book features an agenda for future research, extensive cross referencing, timely references, and the integration of ecophysiology and the demography of tropical species where the data exist. Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology providesplant scientists, botanists, researchers, and graduate students withimportant insights into the behavior of tropical plants. Biologistsand foresters interested in tropical ecology and plant physiologicalecologists will also benefit from this authoritative and timelyresource. ... Read more

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Rainforests-home to more than half of all plant and animal species on earth while covering less than six percent of the world's land area-have intricate ecosystems with multitudes of animal and plant species, including humans. Yet deforestation of the rainforests has greatly increased in the past half century. Ten thousand years ago rainforests covered an estimated 9.5 million square miles, but as millions of trees are lost daily to agricultural and commercial development, scientific studies project the reduction of rainforests to six million square miles by the year 2000 and 3.5 million square miles by 2050.

Numerous scientific, political, conservationist, public-information and other organizations have been formed to address every aspect of rainforests; over 120 worldwide can be found in this directory. Each entry lists the address, phone number, contact person, e-mail or Internet address, (if available), mission statement or goals, publications, and often the group's history and current projects. All listed agencies and organizations readily accept queries for information about rainforests, and most invite participation in their activities and projects. ... Read more

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An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems. The present book examines the contribution that forest soil science and forest ecology can make to sustainable land use in the humid tropics. Four main issues are addressed: characteristics and classification of forest soils, chemical and hydrological changes after forest utilization, soil fertility management in forest plantations and agroforestry systems as well as ecosystem studies from the dipterocarp forest region of Southeast Asia. Additionally, case studies include work from Guyana, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Nigeria. ... Read more

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Hardbound. After publication of the first volume of the Tropical Rain Forest, the International Journal of Mycology and Lichenology commented ``This is a welcome addition to the literature on the ecology of tropical rain forests.The book provides a wealth of data and stimulating discussions and is of great interest to ecologists interested in tropical areas.''Whereas the first volume dealt with system-ecological aspects such as community organization and processes, the present volume concentrates on biogeographical aspects such as species composition, diversity, and geographical variation.

Recent ecological research in the tropical rain forest has greatly extended our understanding of biogeographical patterns of variation in the various groups of organisms, and has revealed many of the ecological and evolutionary forces that led to the present patterns of variation.Many important systems of co-evolution between the tropical rain forest ecosystems h ... Read more