Table of Contents

Ch 1 - An introduction to tropical rain forests
Ch 2 - What are tropical rain forests?
Ch 3 - Plant life
Ch 4 - Rain forest animals
Ch 5 - Interconnections between plants and animals - the web of life
Ch 6 - Tropical rain forests through time
Ch 7 - Forest dynamics
Ch 8 - Nutrients and their cycles
Ch 9 - Species richness
Ch 10 - Tropical rain forests yesterday and today
Ch 11 - Tropical rain forests today at the cusp of the new millennium
Epilogue
Notes
References
Glossary
Indexes

About the Author

Timothy Charles Whitmore, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, England CB2 3EN.

Reviews

A greater awareness has led to bolder initiatives emerging to promote sustainable management of these forests, such as the rapidly approaching Year 2000 Objective set by the ITTO. The most significant changes in this edition address these issues with an extra chapter added, focusing on management for sustainability. ... In the end this excellant book is positive that a sustainable balance might be struck before the forests disappear. Tim Baker/East African
Wilde Life Society/Afr. Jr. Ecol.,38, 93-94