Publisher's Synopsis
This text has evolved from an updated and expanded version of a standard course text on the ecology of woodland processes. It presents a foundation for the study of woodland communities, but also explores the dynamics of interactions between various ecosystem components. Topics of particular current interest include: root productivity; competitive foraging by plants; patch dynamics and regeneration; the significance of defensive compounds; population dynamics of forest insects; and a treatment of nutrient cycling in tropics forests.;The authors compare world forest types and also present new information on working forests, contemporary problems and the future of forests. They report observations and inference from worldwide research, with direct reference to original papers.
