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Title:High Diversity Forest Restoration in Degraded Areas : Methods & Projects in Brazil
Author:Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Sebastião Venâncio Martins & Sergius Gandolfi (eds)
ISBN:1600214215 : 9781600214219
Illustrations:colour & b/w illus
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:286
Weight: .836 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - July 2007
List Price: 59.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Brazil: Forestry & related industries: Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques: Deforestation


The discussion of ideas, methods, scientific results, empirical practices and perspectives on the restoration of high diversity tropical and subtropical forest formations is the objective of this book; however, principles here proposed may be used in other less complex forest formations. Special attention is given to the role of the ecological processes on the restoration of functional forest communities, once the composition and structure of these natural or even restored communities change in space and time.

Preface; Forest Restoration: Many Views and Objectives; Theoretical Bases of the Forest Ecological Restoration; The Importance of the Regional Floristic Diversity for the Forest Restoration Successfulness; Restoration Actions; Combination of Species into Filling and Diversity Groups as Forest Restoration Methodology; Management of Monospecific Commercial Reforestations for the Forest Restoration of Native Species with High Diversity; Transference of Seedlings and Aloctone Young Individuals As Ecological Restoration Methodology; Ecological Management of Degraded Forest Fragments; A Focus on Plant Reproductive Biology in the Context of Forest Restoration; Environmental Education (Ee) and Restoration of Degraded Areas: Public Policies Committed to Diversity; Intermontes Project in the Context of Brazilian Field Works and Researches on Restoration; Identification of Degraded Areas and Classes of Vegetal Cover Through Geographical Information System for Environmental Adequacy; Use of Evaluation and Monitoring Indicators in a Riparian Forest Restoration Project in Viçosa, Southeastern Brazil; Index.