TY - ECHAP
KW - soil conservation
KW - agroforestry
AU - U.S. National Research Council, Committee on Selected Biological Problems in the Humid Tropics
AB - <p>Focused on ecological considerations in tropical areas, this chapter covers the following topics:</p><ul><li>Agriculture as rearrangement of the ecosystem;</li><li>Productivity of tropical agricultural systems;</li><li>Constraints to shifting cultivation;</li><li>Cultivated land as an ecosystem;</li><li>Humid tropical agriculture as vegeculture/polyculture;</li><li>Animal products;</li><li>Export crops;</li><li>Linkages between tropical and temperate zones;</li><li>Nutrition in the humid tropics;</li><li>Stability of tropical agricultural systems;</li><li>Improving plants of the humid tropics;</li><li>Research needs; and</li><li>Agriculture and conservation.</li></ul>
AN - 91-02147
BT - Ecological aspects of development in the humid tropics
CN - QH84.5.N373 1982
CY - Washington, DC
DA - 01/1982
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N1 - Chapter 5
N2 - <p>Focused on ecological considerations in tropical areas, this chapter covers the following topics:</p><ul><li>Agriculture as rearrangement of the ecosystem;</li><li>Productivity of tropical agricultural systems;</li><li>Constraints to shifting cultivation;</li><li>Cultivated land as an ecosystem;</li><li>Humid tropical agriculture as vegeculture/polyculture;</li><li>Animal products;</li><li>Export crops;</li><li>Linkages between tropical and temperate zones;</li><li>Nutrition in the humid tropics;</li><li>Stability of tropical agricultural systems;</li><li>Improving plants of the humid tropics;</li><li>Research needs; and</li><li>Agriculture and conservation.</li></ul>
PB - National Academy Press
PP - Washington, DC
PY - 1982
SN - 0-309-03235-0
SP - 93
EP - 156
T2 - Ecological aspects of development in the humid tropics
TI - Agriculture in the humid tropics
UR - https://doi.org/10.17226/19533
ER -