A thorough review concerning palm uses in tropical rainforests of north-western South
America was carried out to understand patterns of palm use throughout ecoregions …

Mauritia flexuosa is a key ecological and economic palm found throughout tropical South
America. To inform improved management of M. flexuosa, we conducted a systematic review …

Its wise and sensitive approach to working with local people will be relevant in situations
throughout the world.'ECOS'The numerous diagrams, tables of data, information flow charts …

This user-friendly and authoritative book will serve scientists, growers, and sightseers as a
guide to the 67 genra and 550 species of naturally occurring palms found in the Americas …

The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and
innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by …

The palms are among the most abundant diverse, and important families of plants found in
the Amazon. This book, based on extensive field work, provides a systematic treatment of all …

Tropical forests contain an incredible diver- and a basic disregard for the functional ecolsity
of fruit, nuts, oil seeds, latexes, resins, ogy of tropical plant populations. gums, spices, and …

Palms are tropical miracles. Heinrich Heine, the German poet, stated" Unter den Palmen
wandert man nicht ungestraft", ie, one does not wander unpunished under the palms. It was …

This book is concerned with how people respond to unpredictable variation in
environmental and economic conditions (risk) and lack of information (uncertainty) about …

Tropical forests dominated by only one or two tree species occupy tens of millions of
hectares in Amazonia In many cases, the dominant species produce fruits, seeds, or oils of …