Tropical Rainforests
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Neotropical Companion Rev & Exp 2ND Edition
by John Kricher  Publisher Comments A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one...
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Secret Jungle
by Nicole Viloteau Publisher Comments Secret Jungle is a photographic record of one woman's determination to reveal the beauties of a vibrant yet endangered world. Nicole Viloteau has spent over twenty-five years exploring the world's jungles, from Gabon to Australia, from Madagascar to...
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Jungle of the Maya
by Douglas Goodell Publisher Comments This enchanted land, steeped in history and sheathed in forest, is so exquisitely photographed and engagingly described in Jungle of the Maya you can almost hear the bellow of howler monkeys above and the rustle of army ants below as you turn the pages...
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Wild Amazon: A Photographer's Incredible Journey
by Nick Gordon Publisher Comments This book is a stunning book by British wildlife photographer and filmmaker, Nick Gordon. Nick has spent over 12 years of his life in Amazonia where he first went there to try and find, see and photograph that most elusive and highly dangerous cat, the...
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Rainforest
by Sara Oldfield Publisher Comments Illustrated with more than 200 full-color photos, this book is a celebration of the diverse wildlife of the world's major rainforests. Includes a full-color world map and summary of current conservation issues....
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Seedling Recruitment in a Tropical Rain Forest
by C. E. Timothy Paine Publisher Comments Tropical rain forests contain most of the world's known biological diversity. Understanding how this diversity persists in the face of anthropogenic disturbance is an increasingly critical issue. To manage and preserve intact ecosystems, and to restore...
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The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them
by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments Royte weaves together her own adventures on Panama's fertile and animal filled Barro Colorado with tales of researchers struggling to parse the intricate workings of the rain forest, the most complicated natural system on the planet....
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Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest
by Bruce M Beehler Publisher Comments Perhaps it is not possible to experience all the mysterious sounds, the unfamiliar smells, and the spectacular sights of a tropical rainforest without ever visiting one. But this exhilarating and honest book comes wondrously close to taking the reader on...
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Men Who Matched the Mountains: The Forest Service in the Southwest
by Edwin A. Tucker Publisher Comments For nearly a year, Edwin A. Tucker tape recorded interviews with early-day Rangers and other officials, some retired, some still in harness. And from newspapers and official sources he gleaned news items, letters and reports concerning early activities...
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Costa Rican Natural History
by Daniel H Janzen Publisher Comments This volume is a synthesis of existing knowledge about the flora and fauna of Costa Rica. The major portion of the book consists of detailed accounts of agricultural species, vegetation, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, and insects. "This is an...
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The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier (Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific)
by John F. Mccarthy Publisher Comments This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural Aceh, this work considers a number of questions: How do...
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The Last Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalization
by Mark London Publisher Comments With a landmass larger than the continental U.S. west of the Mississippi and the richest diversity of plant and animal species on earth, the Amazon has always struck its explorers and would-be exploiters as infinite and largely impenetrable. For decades,...
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Deep Jungle
by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments Deep Jungle is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on earth. Beginning with man’s earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce takes us high into the canopy—home to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet. Pearce also...
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Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future
by Eldredge Bermingham Publisher Comments Synthesizing theoretical and empirical analyses of the processes that help shape these unique ecosystems, "Tropical Rainforests" looks at the effects of evolutionary histories, past climate change, and ecological dynamics on the origin and maintenance of...
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Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon
by Gomercind Rodrigues Publisher Comments A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers--a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of his years with Mendes has never before been translated...
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Tropical Rainforest: A World Survey of Our Most Valuable Endangered Habitat with a Blueprint for Its Survival
by Arnold Newman Book News Annotation Newman (founder, International Society for the Preservation of the Tropical Rainforest) introduces a general readership to the ecology and distribution of the world's remaining tropical rainforests, describes the consequences of continued...
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Tropical Forest Conservation: An Economic Assessment of the Alternatives in Latin America
by Douglas Southgate Publisher Comments Attempts to halt the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats in the tropics have met with little success. In particular, national parks, like those found in wealthy nations, have proven difficult to establish in Africa, Asia, and South and...
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In Search of the Rain Forest (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by Candace Slater Publisher Comments The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan Save the Rain Forest --emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and...
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Last Stands: A Journey Through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests
by Larry Pynn Publisher Comments An award-winning environmental reporter plunges into coastal rainforests from California to Alaska to explore this unique ecosystem and the complex factors that threaten it....
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Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine Rain Forest
by Lawrence R. Heaney Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the centennial of Philippine independence (declared on June 12, 1898), this lavishly illustrated, full-color book celebrates the extraordinary diversity of life found in the Philippine rain forest. This forest is home to one of...
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