商品簡介
Introduces the complex systems of a broad, cross-regional range of humid to semi-arid tropical climate zones and offers an integration of biophysical and human management issues. Eleven chapters provide a history of tropical environments and discuss climates and moisture regimes; soils and nutrient limitation in tropical ecosystems; tropical biotas, forests and forestry, savannas, traditional and intensified agriculture systems, animal production and utilization, land use planning, and rehabilitation and research. Illustrated with diagrams and b&w photographs of the region. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.