Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan by Ashton, Peter

Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226535692)

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Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan by Ashton, Peter

Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan

$45.00
Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan by Ashton, Peter

Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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Informed by decades of researching tropical Asian forests, a comprehensive, up-to-date, and beautifully illustrated synthesis of the natural history of this unique place.

Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia invites readers on an expedition into the leafy, humid, forested landscapes of tropical Asia--the so-called tapovan, a Sanskrit word for the forest where knowledge is attained through tapasya, or inner struggle. Peter Ashton and David Lee, two of the world's leading scholars on Asian tropical rain forests, reveal the geology and climate that have produced these unique forests, the diversity of species that inhabit them, the means by which rain forest tree species evolve to achieve unique ecological space, and the role of humans in modifying the landscapes over centuries. Following Peter Ashton's extensive On the Forests of Tropical Asia, the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region from India east to New Guinea, this new book provides a more condensed and updated overview of tropical Asian forests written accessibly for students as well as tropical forest biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists.

Author: Peter Ashton, David Lee
ISBN-10: 022653569X
ISBN-13: 9780226535692
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2022
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.91w x 1.26d

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Choice 07/01/2023
By Peter Ashton
By Peter Ashton
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Peter Ashton is professor emeritus in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where he served as director of the Arnold Arboretum. He is also an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is the author, most recently, of On the Forests of Tropical Asia: Lest the Memory Fade. For over fifty years, David Lee has researched leaves, first in the Asian tropics and later at Florida International University, where he taught for thirty years and is professor emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences. He is the author of many articles and several books, including Nature's Palette and Nature's Fabric, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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