People and the tropical forest: A research report from the United States Man and the Biosphere Program

Contents:

• Human Ecology and Agroforestry
• People and the Palm Forest: Biology and Utilization of Babassu Forests in Maranhao, Brazil (A.B. Anderson, E.S. Anderson, and J.J. Ewel)
• Swidden-Fallow Agroforestry, Iquitos, Peru (W.M. Denevan, C. Padoch, and S. Flores Paitan)
• A study of a Bornean System of Intensive Agriculture as a Model for Development (C. Padoch)
• A Study of Relationships Between Mbuti Hunting Systems and Faunal Resources in the lturi Forest of Zaire (J.A. Hart and G.A. Petrides)
• lnteractions Between People and Forests in East Kalimantan, lndonesia (A.P. Vayda)
• Shifting Cultivation and Patch Dynamics in an Upland Forest in East Kalimantan, lndonesia (A.P. Vayda)
• Development of Economic Theory and Methodology for Evaluating Non-Market Values of Tropical Forests (C.F. Jordan, E.G. Farnworth, T.H. Tidrick, and W.M. Smathers); General Ecology
• A Comparison of Driving Forces and System Response of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries (L.A. Deegan, J.W. Day, Jr., and J.G. Gosselink)
• General Hydrology and Water Quality in Eastern Caribbean lslands (A.E. Lugo and P.L. Diaz)
• The Role of Epiphytes in the Nutrient Cycles of Two Rain Forest Ecosystems (C.C. Grier and N.M. Nadkarni)
• Regeneration and Growth Strategies of Brosimum alicastrum Sw. in the Moist Tropical Forests of Mexico (C.M. Peters)
• Potential Productive Capacity of Abandoned Pasture Lands in the Brazilian Amazon (C. Uhl and R. Buschbacher)
• Tropical Dry Forests of Northern Australia: Structure, Recovery, and the Conflict of Human lnterests (P.A. Werner, P.G. Murphy, and M. Scott)
• Forestry
• Comparison of Plantations and Natural Forests in Puerto Rico (A.E. Lugo and L.H. Liegel)
• Forester's Guide to the Moraceae of Sarawak, East Malaysia (R.B. Primack and P. Ashton)
• Conflict of Human lnterests in the lturi Forest of Zaire: lmplications for Forest Survival (T.B. Hart and P.G. Murphy)
• Comparison of Wood Productivity Between Tropical Second-Growth Forests and Plantation Forests (C.F. Jordan and E. G. Farnsworth)
• Shelterbelt System to Minimize Nutrient Losses in Sustained-Yield Tropical Forestry (C. F. Jordan, G.G. Parker, and J.C. Luvall)
• Present Utilization and Potential Regeneration of the Pinaceae in the Highlands of Tropical Mexico and Guatemala (W.K. Ostler)
• Tree Growth as a Guide to the Management of Secondary Tropical Forests (F.H. Wadsworth) Appendices