Tropical Grazing Lands Communities and Constituent Species /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1974.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1974. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2325-2 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- of Chapters
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Objective and scope
- 1.2 Management of tropical grazing lands
- 1.3 Semantics
- 1.4 Succession and climax
- 1.5 Socio-economic factors
- 1.6 Ecosystems
- 1.7 Wildlife in African ecosystems
- 1.8 Coverage
- 1.9 Contrasts between tropical and temperate latitudes
- 2 Evolution of grass covers: Australia and Asia
- 2.1 Technique of ecological/historical analysis
- 2.2 Australia
- 2.3 Eastern monsoon Asia
- 2.4 Mainland and insular south-east Asia
- 2.5 Western monsoon Asia
- 3 Evolution of grass covers: Africa and America
- 3.1 Africa south of the Sahara
- 3.2 America: South, Central and Caribbean
- 4 Surrey and Assessment of Resources
- 4.1 The integrated or holistic approach
- 4.2 Significance of climate
- 4.3 Aerial photography
- 4.4 United Nations Programmes
- 4.5 The approach of the plant sociologist
- 4.6 Review of international literature
- 4.7 Range condition analysis
- 4.8 Grassland Survey of India
- 4.9 IEMVT, Maisons Alfort, France
- 4.10 Assessment in terms of livestock production
- 5 Synecology and Succession
- 5.1 Percentage of land under extensive and intensive use
- 5.2 Grass covers in forest climaxes
- 5.3 Authenticity of indigenous species
- 5.4 Relative aggression
- 5.5 Relative place in succession
- 5.6 The pantropical ubiquitaries
- 5.7 Indicator value
- 5.8 Types of grass covers
- 5.9 Succession in time and place
- 5.10 America: Caribbean Islands: Succession on abandoned cultivated land
- 6 Ecological Management of Natural Resources
- 6.1 Science and practice of management
- 6.2 Levels of production
- 6.3 Management on basis of condition analysis
- 6.4 The ecological component in range management
- 6.5 Prevention of progression to forest
- 6.6 Forestry working plan
- 6.7 Shrubs and trees in tropical grazing lands
- 6.8 The sylvo-pastoral system
- 7 Addition of Legumes to Sward
- 8 Replacement of Natural Covers
- 8.1 Small proportion of total area
- 8.2 Human sociological distinctions
- 8.3 Changed conditions of soil and habitat
- 8.4 Tailoring species for cultivation
- 9 The Gramineae
- 9.1 Importance
- 9.2 Origin
- 9.3 Taxonomy
- 9.4 Speciation
- 9.5 Taxonomic geography
- 9.6 Contributions to taxonomic geography
- 9.7 C. A. B. Bibliographies
- 10 The Leguminosae
- 10.1 Origin
- 10.2 Taxonomic geography
- 10.3 Legume/Rhizobium symbiosis
- 10.4 Fixation and transfer of nitrogen
- 10.5 Interest outside Australia
- 10.6 Research in Australia
- 10.7 C. A. B. Bibliographies
- 11 Genetic Evolution and Resources
- 11.1 Centres of origin
- 11.2 Reconciliation of species taxonomy and variability
- 11.3 Significance and use of variability
- 11.4 The Dichanthium complex
- 11.5 Reproduction and variability in species
- 11.6 Genetic resources
- 12 Plants and Environment
- 12.1 Autecology
- 12.2 Potential production and energy conversion
- 12.3 Photosynthesis
- 12.4 Root studies
- 12.5 Seasonality in growth
- 12.5.1 Seasonality in individual species
- 12.6 Flowering, reproduction and environment
- 12.7 Seed yield
- 12.8 Genetical response to physiological stress
- Addendum
- 13 Bibliography
- General
- Africa south of the Sahara
- America: South, Central, Caribbean
- Asia: Monsoonal and equatorial
- Australia and Pacific Islands
- 14 Index
- Subjects
- Geographical names
- Plant names.