Rainforest : dispatches from earth's most vital frontlines /
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity, but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world ha...
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rainforest Matters
- PART 1. Earth's Most Vital Systems: Rainforest--A Clue in the Name
- Living Atmosphere
- The Ecological Weave
- Evolutionary Treasures
- PART II. The Americas : The "New World" Rainforest Peoples
- Forest Clearance in the Americas
- Counting the Cost: Green Shields
- Protest and Survive
- Forest Dividends in Costa Rica
- The Best Forest Custodians
- Temperate Zone Rainforest
- PART III. Africa: Last Frontiers: The Congo Basin
- The Lost Forests of West Africa
- Climate and Cocoa Challenges
- PART IV. Asia and the Pacific: A Short Tour of the Eastern Forests
- How to Destroy a Rainforest
- Tigers, Pangolins, and Honeycreepers
- Poachers into Gamekeepers?
- PART V. Worth More Alive Than Dead: Globalized Deforestation
- ...And Global Solutions
- Valuing Nature and Rainforest
- Future Forests