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Under the changed forest scenario the “Handbook of Forestry” had been planned to cover the different topics of forest and forestry, which comprise eight chapters viz. introduction, the structure of forests, the development of forestry, diminishing forest area, forest conservation and protection, forest policy and environmental management, forest resources, forest products and industry.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The structure of forests. ...
Forests are ecosystem in which the major ecological characteristics reflects the dominance of ecosystem conditions and processes by trees. The key functional aspects of forest ecosystem are energy capture and biomass creation, nutrient cycling and the regulation of atmospheric and water chemistry, and important contributions to the regulation of the water cycle. The present book comprises of seven chapters, which covers the introduction, forest composition and ...