Restoring degraded landscapes with native species in Latin America / Florencia Montagnini and Christopher Finney, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montagnini, Florencia, 1950-

Finney, Christopher.

Series:

Climate Change and its Causes, Effects and Prediction

Environmental remediation technologies, regulations and safety

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest restoration--Latin America.

Forest restoration.

Reforestation--Latin America.

Reforestation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reforestation in Latin America is more than planting trees in formerly forested landscapes. Rather, reforestation with native trees can restore degraded pasturelands and can also foster regeneration under the plantations' canopies. This book discusses the economic and ecological benefits of forest restoration in Latin America.

Contents:

Can native tree plantations serve as catalysts of secondary succession in degraded tropical forest landscapes? / Florencia Montagnini

Watershed restoration using native species : Pomar Stream, Eldorado, Misiones, Argentina / Sara R. Barth, Beatriz I. Eibl, Florencia Montagnini, José Palavecino and Juan Carlos Kozarik

Seed sourcing recommendations for forest restoration : impacts of tree isolation on progeny performance of cedar and mahogany in the neotropics / Carlos Navarro, Stephen Cavers and Andrew Lowe

Amelioration of growing conditions in mixed species plantation of Terminalia Amazonia and nitrogen-fixing dalbergia retusa / Dylan Craven, Norma Cedeño, Emilio Mariscal, José Deago, Mark H. Wishnie and Jefferson S. Hall

A comparison of growth and yield among four native and one exotic tree species in plantations on six farms at Las Lajas, Chiriquí Province, Western Panama / Hugo Sergio Lam Bent, Florencia Montagnini and Christopher Finney

Productivity, growth, and timber yield of hyeronima alchorneoides allemao (pilón) plantations in Costa Rica / Héctor M. De los Santos-Posadas, Marcelino Montero-Mata, J. René Valdez-Lazalde and Markku Kanninen

Living fences as linear extensions of forest remnants : a strategy for restoration of connectivity in agricultural landscapes / Wendy Francesconi, Florencia Montagnini and Muhammad Ibrahim

Diversity of lepidopterain pure and mixed plantations of eight native tree species at la Selva biological station, Costa Rica / Tracy Monique Magellan, Florencia Montagnini and José Joaquín Montero

In vitro seedling production for sustainable use of orchids by the Guaraní indigenous community in the Atlantic interior forests of Northeastern Argentina / Fernando Niella, Patricia Rocha and Valeria Morales

Community perceptions of the degradation and restoration of forest ecosystems in Southeastern Hidalgo State, Mexico / Maria Raimunda Araújo Santana, Florencia Montagnini, Alfonso Suárez Islas, Celina Palacios Mendoza, Ramón Razo Zárate and Leopoldo Mohedano Caballero

Strategies for cost-effective native species restoration in the sub-tropical Atlantic forest of Southern Brazil / Matthew D. Brewer

Payment for environmental services as a tool to encourage the adoption of silvo-pastoral systems and restoration of agricultural landscapes dominated by cattle in Latin America / Muhammad Ibrahim, Francisco Casasola, Cristóbal Villanueva, Enrique Murgueitio, Elías Ramírez, Joel Sáenzand Claudia Sepúlveda

Municipal land use legislation and sustainable plantation forestry: a case study of Southern São Paulo, Brazil / Christopher Finney.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61122-602-3

OCLC:

923658923