The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest by Turner, I.M - 2001

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact Texty body is free of annotations but the endpapers, both front and back, have copious automotive notes in ink. No foxing but very small mark on back endpapers Edges very slightly spotted or marked Boards have slight on bottom of spine With detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur, our current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rainforest trees is limited. This book aims to summarise the contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rainforest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and that may also lead to a workable ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rainforest community and making it more amenable to analysis.

Unique in focusing on the trees that make up the forest
Emphasises the comparative ecology of the different species
Provides a critical analysis of ecological classification systems B & W illustrations