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Overview
This book brings together a wealth of scientific findings and ecological knowledge to survey what we have learned about the “Wet Tropics” rainforests of North Queensland, Australia. This interdisciplinary text is the first book to provide such a holistic view of any tropical forest environment, including the social and economic dimensions.- The most thorough assessment of a tropical forest landscape to date
- Explores significant scientific breakthroughs in areas including conservation genetics, vegetation modeling, agroforestry and revegetation techniques, biodiversity assessment and modeling, impacts of climate change, and the integration of science in natural resource management
- Research achieved, in part, due to the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (the Rainforest CRC)
- Written by a number of distinguished international experts
- contains chapter summaries and section commentaries
Synopsis
Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape is a compendium of current knowledge of the so-called “Wet Tropics” landscapes of Northeast Australia. These forested landscapes are home to a high proportion of the continent’s species and ecosystems, and have a special significance both nationally and internationally, recognized through World Heritage status granted to the region in 1988.
The Wet Tropics forests of Australia face many of the major threats that other tropical forests around the world are experiencing. Like many of these areas, sustainable management has been hindered by a lack of baseline and applied research. This book reflects the multidisciplinary outcomes focused approach taken by the Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre, a partnership of research providers, including universities and CSIRO, and stakeholders including all levels of government, the tourism industry, conservation sector, and local communities including indigenous people.
The book is presented in six sections with summaries by international luminaries who have placed the chapters in a global context. Social, cultural and economic dimensions are discussed, providing a holistic view of tropical landscape environments. Bringing together a wealth of scientific findings and indigenous ecological knowledge, this book will be of great global interest to a wide range of readers including students, scientists, policy makers and natural resource managers.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"This book should be on the shelves of every university library, certainly in Australia and arguably in the world. Every rainforest research scientist, natural resource management and local government organization in theWet Tropics should have a copy in the office; it is comprehensive and essential." (Austral Ecology, 2011)"Any biologist or conservation manager interested in tropical forests cannot overlook this book, and will find much of interest and value. Entomologists and naturalists planning to visit northern Queensland will benefit from the perspective it gives, in a synthesis of lasting value which-I hope-will be a further stimulus to conservation of thisunique suite of ecosystems." (Zentralblatt Math, 2010)
"There is probably no other volume that provides such a holistic and comprehensive perspective on the science, management, people, and economics of a tropical landscape.”( The Quarterly Review of Biology , September 2009)
"A comprehensive compendium of research information … .The real value of this book is all the information it gives for future sustainable management and conservation of the wet tropics." (Biologist, November 2008)