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Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency & Ecolocial Change In Highlands (Ecology & History)
by James L.A. Webb, Jr. (Author),
Ohio University Press (Publisher)
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Book Description
In 1800, the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse
primary tropical rainforest ecosystems in the world. By 1900, only a few craggy
corners and mountain caps had been spared the firestick. Highland villagers,
through the extension of slash-and-burn agriculture, and British managers,
through the creation of plantations - first of coffee, then cinchona, and
finally tea - had removed virtually the entire primary forest cover. Tropical
Pioneers documents the conversion of a tropical rainforest biome and the
collision between what previously had been more discrete ecological zones within
South Asia. The ecological impacts were transformational. Author James L. A.
Webb, Jr., demonstrates that
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780821414279
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Ohio University Press
Publishing Date 2002-03-01
Product Edition 1
Total Pages 243