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The Urban Forest: Comprehensive Management
ISBN: 9780471122753 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban forestry includes not only the city -street, it includes city parks and recreation areas as well as suburban areas. It involves city planning, forestry for development, construction of an infrastructure to care and nurture trees, funding, and community action. This title deals with the aspects of managing all facets of these areas.
Urban forestry includes not only the city -street, it includes city parks and recreation areas as well as suburban areas. It involves city planning, f...
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1296,53 |
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Principles of Forest Pathology
ISBN: 9780471129523 / Angielski / Twarda / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the practical aspects of forest diseases and on practical measures to minimize damage and loss. Forest Pathology is a reference book that deals with the study of the problems and damage to forests due to: plant diseases, insects, fire, weather, and animals. It is both a forestry book and a plant pathology book. The first section deals with general topics and principles, including both abiotic causes and biotic causes such as fungi, bacteria, mycoplasms, and viruses. The second section presents the details of particular forest diseases and offers practical management...
This book focuses on the practical aspects of forest diseases and on practical measures to minimize damage and loss. Forest Pathology is a reference b...
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1991,99 |
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Ecology and Management of Central Hardwood Forests
ISBN: 9780471137580 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to effective hardwood forest management
Extending 235,000 square miles from New York to Georgia and from Virginia to Missouri, the Central Hardwoods Region harbors the most extensive concentration of deciduous hardwoods in the world. As harvests in the Pacific Northwest decline and timber prices rise, the maturing stands of mixed species in this central U.S. region are a rich and valuable resource that is increasingly vulnerable to exploitation. This timely book examines all of the key ecological, social, and economic management considerations essential to... A comprehensive guide to effective hardwood forest management
Extending 235,000 square miles from New York to Georgia and from Virginia t... |
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1092,60 |
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Resource Assessment in Forested Landscapes
ISBN: 9780471155829 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers forest mensuration--the process of counting, measuring, and estimating the economic value of a stand of trees. This process also involves measuring non-timber, landscape values such as soils, wildlife habitat, and hydrology.
This book covers forest mensuration--the process of counting, measuring, and estimating the economic value of a stand of trees. This process also invo...
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1150,12 |
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Introduction to Forest Ecosystem Science and Management
ISBN: 9780471331452 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conveying the wide-ranging scope of forestry and the great challenges that lie ahead, this Third Edition brings together leading forestry experts and gives readers a broad overview of the field. Coverage ranges from the basic cell, individual trees, and the forest stand, to management of the forest stand and acquisition of goods and services from the forest.
Conveying the wide-ranging scope of forestry and the great challenges that lie ahead, this Third Edition brings together leading forestry experts and ...
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1348,82 |
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Dryland Forestry: Planning and Management
ISBN: 9780471548003 / Angielski / Twarda / 453 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study uses an innovative approach towards integrating biophysical and socioeconomical components into environmentally sound, sustainable forest management practices in dryland regions. The text covers technical considerations in dryland forestry, agroforestry systems, rehabilitation of saline regions, investment and employment opportunities, and forestry extension programmes. Issues such as conservation, watershed management, grazing practice, livestock production, small-scale agricultural crop production and wildlife are discussed. The recreation and tourism industry is also addressed.
This study uses an innovative approach towards integrating biophysical and socioeconomical components into environmentally sound, sustainable forest m...
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2190,69 |
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Sampling Methods for Multiresource Forest Inventory
ISBN: 9780471552451 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to aid readers in gathering the most reliable quantitative information on forests for the least cost.
Designed to aid readers in gathering the most reliable quantitative information on forests for the least cost.
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1442,94 |
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Regional Silviculture of the United States
ISBN: 9780471598176 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A valuable working resource for professionals.
An excellent text for advanced forestry students . . . This unique book provides students and professionals with a broad- based knowledge of contemporary silviculture theory and practice. Throughout, the authors emphasize fundamental questions of edaphic, physiographic, and climatic site factors, as well as ecological relationships and silvical characteristics of major tree species. Updated and expanded to reflect the many scientific, socioeconomic, and public policy trends that have had a profound impact on silviculture... A valuable working resource for professionals.
An excellent text for advanced forestry students . . . This unique book provi... |
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1837,72 |
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Forest Nutrition Management
ISBN: 9780471818830 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An integrated treatment of forest nutrition management that draws on the fields of silviculture, soil studies, ecology and economics to provide broad-based information on how to enhance the nutritional status of forest soils in order to increase their long-term stand productivity. It covers the use of fertilizers to enhance biological nitrogen fixation and how the nutrition status of forests is affected by other operations, such as harvesting and site preparation. Also included are methods for assessing nutrient status, the economics of nutrition management, and models to aid in decision...
An integrated treatment of forest nutrition management that draws on the fields of silviculture, soil studies, ecology and economics to provide broad-...
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1514,86 |
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Essentials of Forestry Practice
ISBN: 9780471842378 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Principles of forestry are introduced with emphasis on actual field practices, both traditional and modern. The fourth edition includes expanded treatments of small private forest owners, reflecting changing patterns in ownership; more informtion on new advances in timber volumes, growth, cut, and management; updated coverage of forest instruments; and more on pollution damage, reflecting current problems. Each significant field practice is illustrated with photos, drawings, and tables for easier comprehension.
Principles of forestry are introduced with emphasis on actual field practices, both traditional and modern. The fourth edition includes expanded treat...
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1113,51 |
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Logging and Pulpwood Production
ISBN: 9780471868224 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to work effectively both as a manual for the logging industry and as a textbook for timber harvesting courses. The sequence of the chapters on logging and associated activities coincides with the consecutive steps in logging - from acquiring the timber through its final transport. This second edition emphasizes environmental considerations - such as the increasing need to reduce excessive soil movement and subsequent siltation.
Designed to work effectively both as a manual for the logging industry and as a textbook for timber harvesting courses. The sequence of the chapters o...
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1840,35 |
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Wind and Trees
ISBN: 9780521460378 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winds over topography and inside forests produce mechanical reactions in trees, and eventually failure in stems and roots when stressed by storms. The mechanics of these reactions and the physiological responses to wind in leaves, stems and root systems, and the important ecological consequences of wind-throw are described in this book. Management techniques of forests in windy climates are detailed, including the use of models predicting risk of wind damage. It is clear that the whole field of wind effects on trees has benefited from recent multi-disciplinary research, and significant...
Winds over topography and inside forests produce mechanical reactions in trees, and eventually failure in stems and roots when stressed by storms. The...
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665,15 |
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Tropical Forest Insect Pests: Ecology, Impact, and Management
ISBN: 9780521873321 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tropical Forest Insect Pests, first published in 2007, promotes a better theoretical understanding of pest population dynamics, and causes of forest insect outbreaks in the tropics. Covering pests of both natural forests and plantations, it examines the diversity of tropical forest insects; their ecological functions; the concept of pests; and the incidence of pests in natural forests, plantations, and stored timber. General issues on which foresters and forest entomologists hold strong traditional views, such as the severity of pest incidence in plantations vs. natural forests, in...
Tropical Forest Insect Pests, first published in 2007, promotes a better theoretical understanding of pest population dynamics, and causes of forest i...
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415,73 |
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An Historical Dictionary of Forestry and Woodland Terms
ISBN: 9780631176367 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Historical Dictionary of Forestry and Woodland Terms describes the special words used by those working or hunting in England's woodlands and forests from the early Middle Ages until the present. The author does not simply give the meanings of words: he describes the customs and practices to which they refer, and frequently adds quotations from contemporary sources, the latter ranging from medieval royal charters and Shakespeare's As You Like It to such books as Taylor's Common Good for the Improvements of Commons (1652) and Jefferies Wildlife in a Southern County (1879).
An Historical Dictionary of Forestry and Woodland Terms describes the special words used by those working or hunting in England's woodlands and forest...
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350,08 |
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Tropical Agroforestry
ISBN: 9780632040476 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agroforestry is the cultivation, by farmers, of trees or other woody plants with crops or pasture. Its scientific study is attracting great interest and increasing funding because of its potential to produce sustainable agricultural systems and agroforestry is now included in most university and college courses covering land use subjects. "Tropical Agroforestry" is the first book that provides an analytical account of the principles, as well as the practices, of agroforestry within the context of the needs of land occupiers and, in so doing, describes the various specialist aspects that are...
Agroforestry is the cultivation, by farmers, of trees or other woody plants with crops or pasture. Its scientific study is attracting great interest a...
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967,10 |
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Forest Futures: Science, Politics, and Policy for the Next Century
ISBN: 9780742531352 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forest Futures is an exciting collection of original essays written by leading scientists, policy analysts, public lands managers, and advocates that addresses four related issues regarding the future of our nation's forests: ideas and practices of sustainable forestry; science and policymaking; threatened and endangered species protection on forested lands; and the future of public forest lands management. Offering a genuine debate and dialogue, Forest Futures discusses the present and future of our nation's forests in light of the current debate on forest management concepts, practices, and...
Forest Futures is an exciting collection of original essays written by leading scientists, policy analysts, public lands managers, and advocates that ...
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248,33 |
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Chemistry and Technology of Agrochemical Formulations
ISBN: 9780751404432 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agrochemical products and adjuvants are of vital importance in agriculture, to protect food and fibre crops from weeds, insect pests and diseases, in order to feed and clothe the growing world population. In recent years there have been increasing pressures to produce agrochemical formulations which have a lower environmental impact and are safer in use. Enormous changes have taken place in the chemistry and technology of agrochemicals over the last twenty years or so and this book provides a timely review of the most important area of technology in the development of new products.
This... Agrochemical products and adjuvants are of vital importance in agriculture, to protect food and fibre crops from weeds, insect pests and diseases, in ...
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1219,01 |
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Ecology and Management of Sitka Spruce: Emphasizing Its Natural Range in British Columbia
ISBN: 9780774805612 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sitka spruce, the largest of the world's spruces, is a crucial component of British Columbia's coastal forests but is poorly understood in comparison with its main coniferous companions. This text describes for silviculturists and forest managers the biology and ecology of naturally-occurring Sitka
Sitka spruce, the largest of the world's spruces, is a crucial component of British Columbia's coastal forests but is poorly understood in comparison ...
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153,99 |
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The Wealth of Forests: Markets, Regulations, and Sustainable Forestry
ISBN: 9780774806831 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are turbulent, unpredictable, yet opportune times for Canadian forestry. Never before have competing demands on Canada's forest resources been so great. At the same time, we are finally being forced to confront the sustainable limit of these resources. Now, the improbable has happened: government, industry, First Nationa, and NGOs appear to be part of an emerging consensus that industrial forestry in Canada must change. The Wealth of Forests is a pioneering attempt to grapple with the policy implications of the transition to sustainable forestry. While much has been... These are turbulent, unpredictable, yet opportune times for Canadian forestry. Never before have competing demands on Canada's forest resources bee... |
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188,77 |
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Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
ISBN: 9780774809634 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and form aspects of their identity. This book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society to explore a previously neglected avenue of social history. By examining grassroots conservation activities, early slaughter rituals, iconographic traditions, and subsistence strategies, Colpitts clearly demonstrates how western attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs - through the fur trade,... In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and fo... |
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144,01 |
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