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Climbing plants, including lianas, represent a fascinating component of the ecology of tropical forests. This book focuses on the climbing plants of West African forests. Based on original research, it presents information on the flora (including a checklist), diversity (with overviews at several levels of integration), ecology (distribution, characteristics in relation to environment, their role in forest ecosystems) and ethnobotany. Forestry aspects, such as their impact on tree growth and development, and the effects of forestry interventions on climbers are also covered.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Frans Bongers |
Publisher |
: CABI |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 296 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 085199914X |
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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 receive relatively lesser attention than trees in ecological studies. The difficulties in taxonomic assertions and lack of standard methodologies overlook climbers in plant inventories, resulting in the underrepresentation of climbers in regional floras. There is a growing consensus about the increasing abundance of climbers and their multifaceted role in tropical forests worldwide. Therefore, it is essential to understand the taxonomic diversity and ecology of climbers at the regional scale to substantiate our efforts towards constructing a global climber database, which serves as a reference for fundamental research in climber ecology and evolution. This book is of interest to biodiversity researchers, taxonomists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists. Field biologists, forest managers, and naturalists will also find this a useful read.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Vivek Pandi |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Release |
: 2023-02-13 |
File |
: 928 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789811986451 |
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This book “Biodiversity of lianas” under the series “Sustainable development and Biodiversity” is unique as it covers a wide array of topics in this subject covering all continents and will constitute a valuable reference material for students, researchers and forest managers who are concerned with biodiversity, forest ecology and sustainable development of forest resources. It contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading academicians and researchers around the world in the field of Plant Ecology, Taxonomy and related areas of Biodiversity Science but, centered on Lianology and includes original research articles, case studies and reviews (regional and global) in biodiversity, ecology and phytogeography and conservation of lianas from temperate, sub-tropical and tropical forests. The interest in lianas has increased over the last two decades. The ultimate goal of this book is to provide an insight into the patterns of liana diversity, distribution, the role of lianas in structuring forest community, and functional ecology (carbon uptake, ecosystem services, dynamics and invasion), biotechnological tool for conservation of lianas and finally summarizes the significance and the need for conservation of lianas in the changing global environmental scenario.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: N. Parthasarathy |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2015-07-24 |
File |
: 285 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783319145921 |
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Lianas are woody vines that were the focus of intense study by early ecologists, such as Darwin, who devoted an entire book to the natural history of climbing plants. Over the past quarter century, there has been a resurgence in the study of lianas, and liana are again recognized as important components of many forests, particularly in the tropics. The increasing amount of research on lianas has resulted in a fundamentally deeper understanding of liana ecology, evolution, and life-history, as well as the myriad roles lianas play in forest dynamics and functioning. This book provides insight into the ecology and evolution of lianas, their anatomy, physiology, and natural history, their global abundance and distribution, and their wide-ranging effects on the myriad organisms that inhabit tropical and temperate forests.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Stefan Schnitzer |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Release |
: 2014-10-24 |
File |
: 517 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781118392485 |
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In Chhindwara district no work has been done specifically on traditional knowledge of climber plants. The present account deal with plants commonly met with in the forest inhabited by tribal, villagers, vaid in Chhindwara district, Madhya-Pradesh. Hence the book will help the common reader to identify such plants. A small beginning is made with few plants in this book. Detailed account of more plants will follow subsequently. The information furnished here are based on work carried during the ethno-botanical field exploration and the observation recorded here are original. Botanical correct name of plant species, local name of plant, taxonomic description, its family, flowering and fruiting session, distribution, Specimen examined number, and ethnobotanical uses are furnished for each plants.
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Genre |
: Education |
Author |
: Dr. Omkar Bawistale |
Publisher |
: OrangeBooks Publication |
Release |
: 2023-05-06 |
File |
: 168 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: |
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The book provides an overview on adoption of biotechnological approaches for the conservation, micropropagation, synseed production of various medicinal and ornamental climbers. The work includes a brief chapter on evolution and diversification of climbers. Other chapters give insights on protocols for in vitro propagation and synseed production of selected threatened medicinal and ornamental climbers. Informative chapter on the production of bioactive compound and their enhancement through genetic transformation and elicitation have been incorporated to cover latest advancement in the field of plant biotechnology. This book also explores the use of molecular marker technique for the desired improvement/magnification of medicinal and aesthetic value of climbing plants.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Anwar Shahzad |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2015-12-24 |
File |
: 504 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783319192888 |
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A study of the flowering plant flora of West Africa south of the Sahara with the emphasis upon species of ecological or economic importance.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Medical |
Author |
: Margaret Steentoft |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 1988-06-09 |
File |
: 364 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521261920 |
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This volume deals with the fibres of Tropical Africa. 515 ‘primary use’ fibres are described in 248 review articles. Many of the articles are illustrated with a geographic distribution map and a line drawing of the habit.
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: |
Author |
: Brink, M. & Achigan-Dako, E.G. |
Publisher |
: PROTA |
Release |
: 2012 |
File |
: 604 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789290814818 |
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The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.
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Genre |
: Nature |
Author |
: D. S. Hammond |
Publisher |
: CABI |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 552 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845930924 |
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This multi-compendium is a comprehensive, illustrated and scientifically up-to-date work covering more than a thousand species of edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, researchers, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, agriculturists, botanists, herbalogists, conservationists, teachers, lecturers, students and the general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy (botanical name and synonyms); common English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agro-ecological requirements; edible plant part and uses; botany; nutritive and medicinal/pharmacological properties, medicinal uses and current research findings; non-edible uses; and selected/cited references. Each volume covers about a hundred species arranged according to families and species. Each volume has separate scientific and common names indices and separate scientific and medical glossaries.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Technology & Engineering |
Author |
: Lim T. K. |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Release |
: 2012-01-03 |
File |
: 852 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789048186600 |