Management of tropical plantation-forests and their soil litter system : litter, biota and soil-nutrient dynamics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reddy, M. V. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Enfield, NH : Science Publishers , c2002
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Perspectives of soil-litter environment in tropical plantation-forests in relation to litter, biota and nutrient dynamics
  • Pt. I LITTER DYNAMICS
  • 2. The litter system in African forest-tree plantations
  • 3. Litter production and nutrient dynamics in tropical forest plantations of India
  • 4. Tropical plantations with native trees: their function in ecosystem restoration
  • 5. Comparative nutrient dynamics with particular reference to litter fall in Hevea rubber plantations and lowland tropical rain forests in Asia
  • Pt. II BIOTIC DYNAMICS
  • 6. Litter layer dynamics and soil microbial biomass in reforested areas after degradation by bauxite mining in eastern Amazon
  • 7. Litter and microbial dynamics in relation to nutrient cycling in Oilpalm (Elaies guineenis jacq) ecosystem
  • 8. Decomposition dynamics and nutrient flow in pine forest plantation in central Java
  • 9. Tree plantation and community structure and function of micro- and micro-arthropods of soil litter system
  • 10. Tree performance, soil plant-litter characteristics and faunal activities in some tropical plantations
  • 11. Earthworms in tropical tree-plantations: effects of management and relations with soil carbon and nutrient use efficiency
  • Pt. III SOIL NUTRIENT DYNAMICS
  • 12. Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil: Their soil nutrient dynamics and management
  • 13. Nitrogen fixing leguminous trees in forestry and agroforestry systems
  • 14. Nutrient flux control by trees for improving soil fertility in tropical agroforestry
  • 15. Accretion of carbon and nutrients in the forest floor and mineral soil of Casuarina equisetifolia plantations on the costal sand dunes of Senegal / Daniel Mailly, H. A. Margolis