Ingeniería forestal y silvicultura: práctica y técnicas

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  • Urban Forest Landscapes
    Girish Bali / Laila Singh / Sanjay Patal
    •Introduction to urban forest landscapes as complex ecosystems within urban environments•Overview of multidisciplinary approaches to studying and managing urban forests, including ecology, urban planning, sociology, and landscape architecture•Discussion of the ecological, social, and economic benefits of urban forests, such as carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, an...
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    67,65 €

  • Forest Management for Timber Production and Climate Change Mitigation
    Seppo Kellomäki
    This book introduces the complex world of carbon dynamics within forest ecosystems, particularly in boreal zones, while also incorporating findings from selected temperate areas. It explores how these dynamics are influenced by management strategies and operations, providing a comprehensive understanding of how forests can be managed to enhance carbon uptake and thus, mitigate ...
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    235,27 €

  • Sustainable Plant Nutrition and Soil Carbon Sequestration
    Terrestrial plant systems are an integral part of Earth’s land resources. Resources are mutually connected via the nutrient exchange phenomena. Thus, plant nutrition is crucial in managing soil fertility and land productivity. Soil organic carbon is one of the critical indicators for assessing the viability of land, and hence soil carbon sequestration, which is a burgeoning iss...
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    261,28 €

  • Sustainable Land Management in India
    This edited book addresses various aspects of sustainable land management, including existing policy norms and indigenous knowledge. It focuses on how sustainable land management can combat desertification, increase livelihood opportunities, mitigate poverty and hunger, and conserve biodiversity. The book explores different sustainable land management practices and policy frame...
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    260,97 €

  • Forests and Climate Change
    Hukum Singh
    This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective. It explores the effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions, changing rainfall patterns, droughts, and cold spells, on individual trees and forest ecosystems. It considers how climate change affects forest structure, ...
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    367,52 €

  • Agroforestry Solutions for Climate Change and Environmental Restoration
    This book discusses the possibilities, reach, challenges, and limitations of agroforestry in new contexts where the security of food, nutrition, and the environment are equally vital. The focus of each chapter in the book is on the potential for agroforestry to address pressing issues such as sustainability, food, fodder, nutrition, and environmental security, as well as to off...
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    287,96 €

  • Wood Handbook
    U.S. Dept. of Agriculture / U.SDeptof Agriculture
    This Wood Handbook, published first in 1955, details how to maintain exemplary conditions in forests and to provide for sustainable yield and profitable utilization of timber crops. It contains basic information on wood as a material of construction with data for its use in design specification. Includes index, charts, and illustrations. ...
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    26,66 €

  • The Principal Species of Wood
    Charles H. Snow
    The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designe...
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    23,64 €

  • Instant Insights
    Dr Alfredo J. Escribano / Dr J. Ryschawy / Various authors
    This book provides a detailed overview of the implementation of agroforestry practices to improve the sustainability of agriculture. ...
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    69,76 €

  • Forest Policies, Laws, and Governance in India
    Asheem Srivastav
    The book delves into the intricate relationship between India’s forest governance, laws, and policies over time, examining their effects on the quality and coverage of the country’s forests. Historically, especially during the British era and the initial phase following independence, forests were valued for timber, leading to increased deforestation to fulfill the rising demand...
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    221,47 €

  • Microbes in Agri-Forestry Biotechnology
    This book explores recent advances in the use of microbes for agri-forestry applications. It provides technical concepts and discussions on the use of microorganisms for processes such as bioremediation, soil enhancement, aquaponics advances, and plant-host symbiosis. ...
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    91,46 €

  • The Poplar Genome
    This book is the first comprehensive compilation of research on state‐of‐the-art genomics on the most advanced model tree species including genome assemblies, insights into genomic structural features and methylation patterns, whole‐genome resources used for population genomics and adaptation to climate, enabled breeding vs. classical genetics and traditional breeding, comparat...
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    280,20 €

  • Flora and Vegetation of Nepal
    This volume highlights the plant life of Nepal, which accounts for 20% of the Himalayan biodiversity. For the first time, this group of authors compile over 200 years’ worth of local botanical research. Due to the high topographical diversity, Nepal has a very unique flora and vegetation.The chapters focus on cryptogams, phanerogams and alien flora. As an added bonus, historica...
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    246,18 €

  • Instant Insights
    Andreas Schindlbacher / Dr Andreas Schindlbacher / Dr Mathias Mayer / Dr Robert Jandl
    This book discusses the utilisation of tropical and temperate forests as tools for monitoring and managing carbon. The book also considers how agroforestry systems can be utilised to improve soil fertility, food security and land restoration. ...
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    69,80 €

  • Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape
    This edited volume reviews 20 years’ worth of research under the European Landscape Convention. The authors from the research network UNISCAPE offer readers insights into their combined efforts to carry out and support the goals of a sustainable European landscape. 20 years after defining these original goals, the editors make landscape ecology and management, a cornerstone for...
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    307,99 €

  • Instant Insights
    Dr Alice Muchugi / Dr Sammy Muraguri / Mr Patrick D. Hardcastle
    This book offers a unique insight into the recent research completed on achieving sustainable management of tropical forests. Chapters review the factors which determine tropical forests, the process of forest landscape restoration, as well as the interactions between forest ecosystems and the climate system. ...
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    69,63 €

  • Taxonomy and Ecology of Climbers
    Vivek Pandi
    This book brings out the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of climbers in India. Climbing is one of the principal plant growth habits that have long attracted the interests of ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Climbing plants can add significantly to the species richness of many tropical forests ecosystems, yet they r...
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    249,07 €

  • Forest Hydrology and Catchment Management
    Leon Bren
    This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment. The unique Australian ecosystem provides valuable information on the water yields and hydro-ecology of forests. Insights can be transferred to other climate zones and conditions. In this second edition, the author puts a particular foc...
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    198,30 €

  • Concepts and Applications of Remote Sensing in Forestry
    Mohd Nazip Suratman
    This edited book is a collection of information on recent advancements in remote sensing for forestry application. The main focus of this book is to address the novel applications in remote sensing in terms of recent techniques, sensors, methods and data collection. Remote sensing has been used for many decades. Today, remote sensing is heavily utilized in forest management, wh...
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    222,96 €

  • Silvopastoral systems of Meso America and Northern South America
    This book offers an overview of the most important research and developments in silvopastoral systems of the northern part of South America and Central America, including the most common silvopastoral arrangements in each country and their characteristics in terms of productivity, and environmental and socioeconomic aspects. Featuring a compilation of original research articles...
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    245,81 €

  • Ökologisch-ökonomische und sozio-ökologische Strategien zur Erhaltung der Wälder
    In diesem Buch werden Strategien zur Verbesserung der Widerstandsfähigkeit und des Schutzes der gemäßigten Wälder in Südamerika vorgeschlagen, damit diese Wälder auf nachhaltige Weise Ökosystemleistungen erbringen können. Als solches trägt es zum Entwurf eines widerstandsfähigen Mensch-Wald-Modells bei, das die Multikulturalität lokaler Gemeinschaften berücksichtigt und in viel...
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    109,21 €

  • Principles of National Forest Inventory Methods
    Allan Sims
    This Monograph explains the statistical theory behind the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data collection and compares different methods for modelling and inventory design. The author also explains how natural uncertainty in measurement and modelling can affects the results. Forests, as dynamic systems, are influenced by many unpredictable factors over time. Therefore, readers ...
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    135,88 €

  • Soil Erosion Control in Drylands
    Mohammad Ehteram / Mohammad Jafari / Mohammad Tahmoures
    This book focuses on drylands such as arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas where they form the main part of ecosystems, e.g., in Iran, but also around the world. Mismanagement and improper exploitation of these areas lead to more degradation day by day. Besides an introduction to the role and importance of vegetation cover in conserving soil against wind and water erosion, t...
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    137,70 €

  • Conservation, Management and Monitoring of Forest Resources in India
    This volume is devoted to compiling recent advancements, methodological improvements, new processing techniques, integration methods and rigorous applications associated with conceptual techniques on the conservation and monitoring of forest resources for a scientific audience, with a focus on cases and applications in India. The primary objective of the book is to advance the ...
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    211,03 €

  • Manuel pratique de Jardinage; contenant la manière de cultiver soi-même un jardin ou d’en diriger la culture
    Courtois-Gérard
    Manuel pratique de Jardinage; contenant la manière de cultiver soi-même un jardin ou d’en diriger la culture, un livre classique, a été considéré comme important tout au long de l’histoire humaine, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, nous, aux éditions Alpha, nous sommes efforcés de le préserver en republiant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations prése...
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    29,89 €

  • Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production
    This book will address the major subsoil physical and chemical constraints and their implications to crop production; Plant growth is often restricted by adverse physical and chemical properties of subsoils yet these limitations are not revealed by testing surface soils and hence their significance in crop management is often overlooked. The major constraints can be physical or...
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    161,43 €

  • The School Book of Forestry
    Charles Lathrop Pack
    The School Book of Forestry, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scan...
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    21,08 €

  • Forest Science
    This book highlights the sustainability aspects of products and processes in forest science. The forest products sector supplies raw materials to several industrial sectors worldwide. These products can be classified as timber or non-timber products. Wood products are those that originate from the woody fraction and can include pulp, charcoal, firewood, and others. The non-timb...
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    48,01 €

  • Instant Insights
    Beth A Kaplin / Dr Matthew J. McGrath / Dr Oliver Gardi / Matthew J McGrath / Prof Beth A. Kaplin
    This collection provides a considered overview of the range of ecosystem services delivered by tropical, temperate and boreal forests. Chapters explore the role of forests in storing carbon, improving hydrological cycles and optimising soil health. ...
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    69,70 €

  • Non-Wood Forest Products of Asia
    This book highlights the importance of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) and their crucial role in sustaining the livelihood of rural and indigenous communities in Asia. The authors depict how the preservation of forests and the associated major non-wood resources may provide an important avenue to reduce poverty. The local practices and knowledge on harvesting NWFPs are often ...
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    222,33 €


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