Techniques in Forestry

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Forests are invaluable in our daily lives, crucial to our nation’s economy and integral to the long-term health of the environment. The problems related to forestry are attracting the attention of forest managers and environmentalists throughout the world. Forestry research, to be of sufficient quality and quantity to solve societal problems, must embrace more areas of science. Past approaches to forestry research have proved inadequate. Contemporary issues such as sustainable development, the role of forests in global carbon balance and global warming, acid rain and the preservation of biological diversity illustrate the need for scientific expertise which is at present inadequately represented by traditional forestry research guideline manuals. Forestry research must change radically if it is to help meet national and global needs. It must become broader in its clients, participants and the problems it examines and at the same time, must conduct more in-depth research. To meet the challenge of rapid change, new approaches and new resources should be augmented for initiation, development and redirection of basic and also applied research. This book provides research guidelines in the field of forest and plantation productivity, nutrient cycling, chemical analyses of wood, evaluation of agro-forestry results, nursery, seed technology, fertilizer and eco-technology, etc. It will serve as a good reference for graduate students in forestry, research scholars and foresters.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Shanmughavel

Dr. P. Shanmughavel has a brilliant academic career in Botany, with specialization in Plantation Forestry and a Ph.D. degree in Botany (Plantation-Bamboo) from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He has submitted a dissertation for Doctor of Science (D. Sc.). He has specialized in Plantation Bamboo work and contributed more than 120 research papers and popular articles and has also written four books on bamboo. In appreciation of his research work, the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu, honoured him with the prestigious Tamil Nadu Scientist Award (TANSA) in 2002. His book in a regional language was awarded the Best book of the Year 2002 in the field of Agriculture by the Government of Tamil Nadu. He has visited several Asian and African countries. He is a Principal Investigator of several research works in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. Presently, he is a Lecturer with the Unit of Bioinformatics, Department of Botany, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Title
Techniques in Forestry
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8171323391
Length
x+182p., Tables; Figures; 23cm.
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