Lianas of the Guianas Hoffman Bruce
Lianas of the Guianas Hoffman Bruce Lianas (woody vines) are iconic symbols of tropical forests around the world. Lianas contribute significantly to tropical forest diversity (25-40 percent of…
Specifikacia Lianas of the Guianas Hoffman Bruce
Lianas of the Guianas Hoffman Bruce
Lianas (woody vines) are iconic symbols of tropical forests around the world. Lianas contribute significantly to tropical forest diversity (25-40 percent of species), carbon sequestration, biomass, plant-animal interactions, and forest gap dynamics. These plants use the energetically expensive investment of trees in woody stems to gain relatively inexpensive access to the light-rich canopy.
Largely due to their inaccessibility, lianas and other climbers remain among the most poorly documented lifeforms in the tropics. Although they are often considered pests in commercial forestry, woody climbers are important to many traditional peoples as medicines, subsistence fibers and non-timber forest products. This book aims to facilitate learning and identification of woody climbers of the Guianas (Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname) for specialists and non-specialists by using an