The Tropical Rain Forest A First Encounter - Jacobs, Marius; Kruk, Remke; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1988)
Contents: A Matter of Public Awareness -- How Rain Forests Are Studied -- Climate -- Soils and Cycles -- The Trees -- Other Life Forms -- Composition -- Primary and Secondary Forest -- Tropical America -- Malesia -- Tropical Africa -- Relationships of Plants and Animals -- Evolution -- How Species are Formed -- At the Fringes of the Rain Forest -- Values of the Rain Forest -- Damage and Destruction -- Protection -- Forest and Man -- References -- Name and Subject Index.
Keywords: Agriculture; Forestry; Ecology .; Plant science; Botany; Agriculture; Forestry; Ecology; Plant Sciences