Trees are one of the dominant features of our existence on earth and play a fundamental role in the environment. This book gives the reader an overview and understanding of trees. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation, and surgery.
Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades.
Forests are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply essential harvestable products, but also ornamental landscapes, regulate climate, hydrology, mineral cycling and soil erosion.
This is an excellent, attractive, authoritative, and handy field guide to an area of Brazil that includes Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Ridgely, an ornithologist and conservationist, has authored previous titles on birds of Panama and Ecuador.
Trees and Forests by 
Forest under Story by 
Forestry by 
Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil by