Library productivity of grass ecosystems of tropics and sub-tropics
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has sponsored a programme of research into the primary productivity of grass ecosystems in the tropics and subtropics, resulting in this book. It represents the first internationally integrated study of bioproductivity since the IBP in the 1970s.
Print Book, English, 1992
Chapman & Hall, London, 1992
267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780412410208, 0412410206
1027849464
Aims, goals and general methods, S.P.Long and M.B.Jones; the primary productivity and photosynthesis of savanna grasses in Kenya - studies at Nairobi National Park, J.I.Kinyamario and S.K.Imbamba; saline grassland near Mexico City, E.Garcie-Moya and P.Montanez Castro; moist savannas of Thailand, A.Kamnalrut and J.Evenson; the productivity of echinochloa polystachya, a semiaquatic grass in the Amazonian floodplain, M.T.F.Piedade et al; the productivity and photosynthesis of bamboo with reference to phyllostachya pubescens forest in subtropical China, C-X.Qiu et al; remote sensing of primary producation in natural tropical grasslands and articifial mixed-species canopies, J.M.O.Scurlock; synthesis and conclusions, M.B.Jones and S.P.Long; UNEP epilogue, R.J.Olembo.