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Conservation is necessary to ensure forests are able to provide these essential services for generations to come, but management of forest resources is also required to meet global demand for goods and employment. Forest management expenditures, which are made in the expectation of creating benefits at some time in the future, are best viewed as investments. This opens up opportunities for using standard investment analysis techniques to rank projects competing for scarce funding. The use of these techniques lets forest managers evaluate alternative strategies and select the one which will contribute the most to the achievement of management goals. This book is intended to provide forest resource managers with an introduction to benefit-cost analysis and its potential use in forest management. This book is expected to benefit the researchers, general readers and policy makers for policy implication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oryson Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453378658582,"sku":null,"price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/8905\/3974\/files\/Forest-Conservation-and-Management.jpg?v=1781935019"},{"product_id":"forest-genetics-and-tree-breeding","title":"Forest Genetics And Tree Breeding","description":"\u003cp\u003eForest genetic resources or tree genetic resources are genetic material of shrub and tree species of actual or future value. Forest genetic resources are integral for forest-depending communities who rely for a substantial part of their livelihoods on timber and non-timber forest products like fruits, gums and resins, for food security, domestic use and income generation. These resources are also the basis for large-scale wood production in planted forests, so as to satisfy the worldwide need for timber and paper. The Ministry of Forests and Range Forest Genetics research program includes tree improvement, as well as a wide range of initiatives related to genetic conservation, genetic resources management, and identifying and developing mitigation strategies for climate change impacts. The topics of this book have been chosen as to give a comprehensive idea about forest genetics and tree breeding. 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According to the widely used United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization definition, forests covered four billion hectares (15 million square miles) or approximately 30 percent of the world's land area. Forests are among the most important repositories of terrestrial biological diversity. Together, tropical, temperate and boreal forests offer very diverse habitats for plants, animals and microorganisms. A forest consists of many components that can be broadly divided into two categories that are biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) components. The living parts include trees, shrubs, vines, grasses and other herbaceous (non-woody) plants, mosses, algae, fungi, insects, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and microorganisms living on the plants and animals and in the soil. 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Single cells, plant cells without cell walls (protoplasts), pieces of leaves, or (less commonly) roots can often be used to generate a new plant in culture media given the required nutrients and plant hormones. The main advantage of this technique is the production of exact copies of the parent plant. Plant tissue culture technique offers an excellent opportunity for mass propagation of plants in laboratory test tubes, which are transferred to the field. Besides crop plants, the technique is also applied to regenerate saplings for plantation and regeneration of dwindling forests. Some rare and nearly extinct plant species can be rescued and propagated by this technique. Due to rapid deforestation and depletion of genetic stocks, concerted efforts must be made to evolve new methods for mass propagation and production of short duration trees. This required genetic manipulation to evolve vigorous and fast growing trees with a short reproductive cycle which can be mass propagated. The technology of tissue culture is competent to meet this challenge. Some of the chapters will provide the reader with a broad review of recent developments and progress in the field of tissue culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oryson Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453379281174,"sku":null,"price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/8905\/3974\/files\/Tissue-Culture-in-Forestry.jpg?v=1781935067"},{"product_id":"wood-for-bioenergy-forests-as-a-resource-for-biomass-and-biofuels","title":"Wood for Bioenergy: Forests as a Resource for Biomass and Biofuels","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs much of the world seeks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, energy companies and nations alike are turning once again to our oldest renewable energy resource wood. 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Recent low forest product prices and financial difficulties faced by the forest sector have also led to calls for increased use of forest biomass for production of a range of bioproducts including bioenergy as additions or alternatives to traditional forest products. Forests are considered as important natural resources, so their proper management is highly essential for the growth and development of mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oryson Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453380985110,"sku":null,"price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/8905\/3974\/files\/Wood-for-Bioenergy-Forests-as-a-Resource-for-Biomass-and-Biofuels.jpg?v=1781935083"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.orysonpress.com\/collections\/forestry.oembed","provider":"orysonpress","version":"1.0","type":"link"}