Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

This deals in large part with the world's forests as yielding
materials that man cannot do without. It also considers forests
as part of the land, as features of the landscape, and indicating
the relationship of forests to rainfall and temperature, relief
and soils.
Six chapters, are devoted to forests and wood products in their
worldwide aspects, and 25 chapters to the forest situation and
the problems of particular regions. Chapter 23 is devoted to
Southeast Asia, with sections treating with the forests and forest
products of Thailand and Indochina.
A relected bibliography is included, with * limited list of references
to forestry according to continent and country. This is
followed by selected subject bibliographies, including dictionaries
and glossaries pertaining to forestry, and references to atlases
and maps. There is a botanical index to tree species mentioned in
the text, and a general index.
Haig, I.T., M.A. Huberman nd M.Aung Din. Tropical Silvi.co3.ture. FAO
Forestry and Forest Products Studies. 1(13). 190 pp., illustr. 1958.
The proper development and use of tropical forests, covering
an'area slightly less than one half of the world's forest land, have
concerned the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization
(PAO) since its inception. These forests not only contain
an enormous quantity of unused or little used rav materials but
their proper management also poses some of the rr -S. difficult problems
in silvicultural techniques as well as in t;;e formulation of
a sound forest policy.
This study suras up the status of tropical silviculture with particular
regard to natural regeneration, as a guide to future efforts
in developing silvicultural practices.
The first four pages present a general review of tropical, forests,
their classification, and a table listing investigations undertaken
during the past 150 years on climatic-vegetation relationships. This
is accompanied by a fairly extensive bibliography.
There is a treatment of Silvics and Silviculture of Major Forest
Communities, with a comprehensive discussion of Wet Evergreen (Rain)
forest. A bibliography is also included.
Major forest types discussed are: Moist Deciduous forest, accf/npanied
by a list of references: Dry Deciduous forest and its
occurrence, physical factors, silvical factors, silvicultural practices,
and a bibliography; the occurrence, physical and silvical
factors of the Mangrove forest; and soae pertinent data on the
occurrence of Bamboo and Coniferous forests.
The final chapter is a discussion of proposed program relating
to the physical and silvical. features of major climatic forest formations,
indicating the most important fields of definite value and
promise for consideration in future programs.
Hammer, E. J. The struggle for Indochina continues: Geneva to Bandung.
Stanford Univ. Press. kQ pp. 1955.
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