[PDF] Plant Ecology In West Africa eBook

Author : G. W. Lawson
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1986-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN :

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Brings together authoritative and up-to-date accounts of the principal types of vegetation found in West Africa and describes the main processes that occur within them. Deals with such varied topics as the complex inter-relationships between plants and animals, the breeding systems found in West African plants, the structure and dynamics of forest, savanna, desert, coastal and montane vegetation, and the urgent need to conserve this natural environment.

Author : Frans Bongers
Publisher : CABI
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780851999142

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Climbing plants, including lianas, represent a fascinating component of the ecology of tropical forests. This book focuses on the climbing plants of West African forests. Based on original research, it presents information on the flora (including a checklist), diversity (with overviews at several levels of integration), ecology (distribution, characteristics in relation to environment, their role in forest ecosystems) and ethnobotany. Forestry aspects, such as their impact on tree growth and development, and the effects of forestry interventions on climbers are also covered.

Author : L. Poorter
Publisher : CABI
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0851999514

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The rain forests of West Africa have been designated as one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity. They extend from Ghana to Senegal and are referred to as the Upper Guinean forests. Because of their isolated position, they harbour a large number of rare and endemic animal and plant species.This book focuses on the biodiversity and ecology of these forests. It analyses the factors that give rise to biodiversity and structure tropical plant communities. It also includes an atlas with ecological profiles of rare plant species and large timber species.

Author : MARTIN
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3034877269

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Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world's scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Botanists wentabout establishing their herbariums and paid much too little attention to the vegetation as a whole, or to the significance of useful plants for local populations. Zoologists, too, busied themselves with collecting and describing species. Anthropologists, on the other hand, tended to overlook faunal details: in their ignorance of the animal world, they wrote of tigers and deer in Africa. And finally, foresters saw neither the forest nor the trees for the timber - and even confused rainforests with monocultures of fir trees.

Author : Lourens Poorter
Publisher : CABI
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0851997341

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The rain forests of West Africa have been designated as one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity. This book focuses on the biodiversity and ecology of these forests. It analyses the factors that give rise to biodiversity and the structure of tropical plant communities. It includes an atlas with ecological profiles of 280 rare plant species and 56 large timber species, each with a one page entry including a colour photograph and distribution map.

Author : Margaret Steentoft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 1988-06-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521261929

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A study of the flowering plant flora of West Africa south of the Sahara with the emphasis upon species of ecological or economic importance.