Management
of Tropical Plantation Forests and their Soil Litter System
Litter,
Biota and Soil-nutrient Dynamics
M. Vikram Reddy (ed.)
ISBN 978-1-57808-176-9; 2002; 444 Pages; US $ 121.00
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Sustainable
management of planted forests in tropical areas depends on knowledge of the
various aspects of litter, biotic, and soil-nutrient dynamics-systems which
affect the growth and productivity of trees in plantations of any size, as
well as the long-range health of the ecosystem. This volume comprises
contributions from renowned international scientists who discuss the
specifics for an audience of environmental biologists, soil scientists,
forest conservators, plantation managers, and others with an interest in the
tropics.
Contents:. Introduction: Perspective
of soil-litter environment in tropical plantation forests in relation to
litter,biota, and nutrient dynamics: M. Vikram Reddy
LITTER
DYNAMICS
. The litter system in African forest-tree plantations:
F. Bernhard-Reversat and J.J. Loumeto . Litter
production and nutrient dynamics in tropical forest plantations of India:
J.S. Samra and A. Raizada . Tropical plantations with
native trees: Their function in ecosystem restoration:
F. Montagnini
. Comparative nutrient dynamics with particular reference to
litter fall in Hevea rubber plantations and lowland tropical rain forests in
Asia:
I.A.U.N. Gunatilleke BIOTIC DYNAMICS
.
Litter layer dynamics and soil microbial biomass in reforested areas after
degradation by bauxite mining in eatern Amazon:
Enir S. Costa et al.
.
Litter and microbial dynamics in relation to nutrient cycling in oilpalm
(Elaies guineenis jacq) ecosystem:
N.O. Aisueni and C.E. Airede.
Decomposition dynamics and nutrient flow in pine forest plantation in
central Java:
H.A. Verhoef and B. Gunadi. Tree
plantation and community structure and function of beneficial macro- and
micro-anthropods of soil litter system:
M. Vikram Reddy.
Tree performance, soil plant litter characteristics and faunal activities in
some tropical plantations:
F.K. Akinnifesi et al.
.
Earthworms in tropical tree-plantations: Effects of management and relations
with soil carbon and nutrient use efficiency:
X. Zou and G. GonzalezSOIL-NUTRIENT
DYNAMICS
. Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil: Their soil nutrient
dynamics and management:
A. Spangenberg and H. Folster.
Nitrogen fixing leguminous trees in forestry and agroforestry systems:
D.L.N.
Rao. Nutrient flux control by trees for improving soil
fertility in tropical agroforestry:
J. Lehmann.
Accretion of Carbon and Nutrients in the forest floor and mineral soil of
Casuarina equisetifolia plantations the costal sand dunes of
Senegal:
D. Mailly and H.A. Margolis
