Soils of Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Characteristics, Ecology and Management

An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems. The present book examines the contribution that forest soil science and forest ecology can make to sustainable land use in the humid tropics. Four main issues are addressed: characteristics and classification of forest soils, chemical and hydrological changes after forest utilization, soil fertility management in forest plantations and agroforestry systems as well as ecosystem studies from the dipterocarp forest region of Southeast Asia. Additionally, case studies include work from Guyana, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Nigeria.

Logging can cause a serious lack of calcium in tropical rainforest ecosystems: An
example from Sabah, Malaysia Professor emeritus Nils Nykvist1,2 (1)
Department of Forest Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S901
83, Umeå, Sweden (2) Skogsstigen 1, S14462, Rönninge, Sweden Professor
emeritus Nils Nykvist Phone: +468 53 25 26 31 Abstract Chemical analysis of
total calcium in soil samples from Mendolong research area revealed that they
had a very low ...