Tropical Forests in Transition

Chapter 1 Tropical Forests in Transition. Ecology of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Processes — An Introduction

Chapter 2 Palynogogical Evidence Relating to Disturbance and Other Ecological Phenomena of Rain Forests

Chapter 3 Holocene Autochthonous Forest Degradation in Southeast Venezuela

Chapter 4 Vegetation, Megaherbivores, Man and Climate in the Quaternary and the Genesis of Closed Forests

Chapter 5 Succession After Disturbance of Lowland Mixed Dipterocarp Forest by Shifting Agriculture in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Chapter 6 Degradation of a Forest in the Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya, as Initiated by Man and Maintained by Wildlife

Chapter 7 Anthropo-Zoogenic Impact on the Structure and Regeneration of a Submontane Forest in Kenya

Chapter 8 Tropical Mountain Ecology in Ethiopia as a Basis for Conservation, Management and Restoration

Chapter 9 Forests for Integrated Land-Use Development in an Eastern Ethiopian Water Catchment

Chapter 10 Geoecological Consequences of Human Impacts on Forests in Sri Lanka

Chapter 11 Structure and Dynamics of the Upper Montane Rain Forests of Sri Lanka

Chapter 12 A Research Perspective on Disturbance and Recovery of a Tropical Montane Forest

Chapter 13 Process-Oriented Models for Simulation of Growth Dynamics of Tropical Natural and Plantation Forests

Chapter 14 A Finite-Element Model to Simulate Spacial Distributions of Populations of Large Mammals

Chapter 15 The Role of the Tropics in the Global Carbon Budget: Impacts and Possible Developments

Chapter 16 Modeling the Response of Terrestrial Vegetation to Climate Change in the Tropics