This book presents an overview of the approaches and challenges associated with climate change risks in the Alpine region. Climate variations indicate that current forest resources will face drastically different temperature and precipitation conditions in the future. Developing prospective strategies for forest management in spite of uncertain and highly variable forecasts of future site conditions is a great challenge. Transnational case studies dealing with different manifestations of climate change effects have been analyzed in this book. It intends to encourage discussions on management...

This book highlights current developments in forestry research by providing valuable information related to latest research in this domain. Contributions from experts across the globe have been made in this extensive book. It elucidates the positive and negative practices in forestry. Forest is an intricate system of habitat for humans, insects, animals and micro-organisms alike. The activities of these organisms can affect the forest both positively and negatively. This complicated relationship has also been elucidated in this book. Advancement in tree plantations has been humankind's...

This book presents advanced in-depth information regarding tropical forests. The surprisingly rich and abundant biodiversity of tropical forests is declining at a fast rate. This has led to serious changes in important biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, etc. and has resulted in an alteration in the global climate and pure natural ecosystems. This book broadly defines Tropical Forests in light of the following major aspects: tropical forest synthesis, synergy and structure; effect of anthropogenic pressure; tropical forest protection and process; tropical forest...

Forests are much more than a bunch of trees, contrary to popular belief. They are complicated operating systems of interrelated biological, physical and chemical elements, whose biological features have constantly evolved to preserve itself. These complex combinations of climate, soils, trees and plants result in many varied types of forests throughout the globe. Although trees are the main highlight of forest ecosystems, the vast variety of other creatures and abiotic elements in the forests indicate that there is also a need to study about these elements like soil nutrients and wildlife and...

Forests are much more than a bunch of trees, contrary to popular belief. They are complicated operating systems of interrelated biological, physical and chemical elements, whose biological features have constantly evolved to preserve itself. These complex combinations of climate, soils, trees and plants result in many varied types of forests throughout the globe. Although trees are the main highlight of forest ecosystems, the vast variety of other creatures and abiotic elements in the forests indicate that there is also a need to study about these elements like soil nutrients and wildlife and...

This book deals with the challenges faced by protected area managers and the techniques and methods to tackle them. Protected areas are the base of most national and international conservation strategies. Each of the protected areas needs a case-specific set of guidelines because of the numerous unpredictable elements in ecology matters, but a general issue in all these cases remains that of coping with human interaction. The management of these areas is full of challenges and the only way to gain understanding and achieve higher management possibilities is to exchange experiences and...