Tropical Publications
Publications related to tropical plants.
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Tropical Nursery Manual – A Guide to Starting and Operating a Nursery for Native and Traditional Plants (2014)
This comprehensive manual serves people who are starting or operating a nursery for native and traditional species in the tropics. Key concepts, principles, and processes are presented, based on proven practices and the best science available. Click here to request a hardcopy.
- Challenging a Paradigm: Toward Integrating Indigenous Species into Tropical Plantation Forestry (2012)
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Specialty Crops for Pacific Island Agroforestry (2011)
This manual provides information for promoting high quality food, fiber, and healthcare crops grown in diverse agroforestry systems to provide family farms both subsistence and commercial opportunities.
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Tree Nursery Sourcebook – Options in Support of Sustainable Development (2010)
- Manual on Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Coastal Forests Damaged by Natural Hazards in the Asia-Pacific Region (2009)
- Good Nursery Practices: A Simple Guide (Nairobi) (2008)
- Research For Restoring Tropical Forest Ecosystems: A Practical Guide (2008)
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Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands: Their Culture, Environment, and Use (2006)
This is a wonderful reference for identifying, propagating, harvesting, and developing natural and useful vegetative communities for trees in the Pacific Islands.
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Tropical Tree Seed Manual (2002)
This manual consists of chapters in areas of seed biology, collection, storage, dormancy, germination, pathology, ecology, ethnobotany, and dendrology along with descriptions of 197 botanically and economically important tropical tree species.
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Manual on Nursery Practices (Jamaica) (2003)
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizas: Producing and Applying Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculum (2001)
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Seed Technology for Forestry in Hawaii (2000)
- Good Tree Nursery Practices: Practical Guidelines for Community Nurseries (1999)
- Good Tree Nursery Practices: Practical Guidelines for Research Nurseries (1999)
- Koa: A Decade of Growth–Proceedings of the Symposium (1996)
- Organic and Compost-Based Growing Media for Tree Seedling Nurseries (1995)
- Tropical Trees: Propagation and Planting Manuals (Commonwealth Science Council, London) (1993)
- Common and Scientific Names of Trees and Shrubs of Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands (1990)
- A Technical Guide for Forest Nursery Management in the Caribbean and Latin America (1987)
- Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (1974)
- Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (1964)
- Pacific Island Tree Nursery Workshop Held in Guam (2020)
Tree Planters' Notes
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Seed Technology: A Challenge for Tropical Forestry
Franklin T. Bonner
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Plantation Establishment Techniques in Tropical America
William E. Ladrach
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Windbreak Benefit to Potato Yield in Tropical North Australia
D. Sun and G. R. Dickinson
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Sowing of Pelletized Seed: A Technique To Simplify Eucalypt Raising in Tropical Nurseries
Beti Piotto
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Tecnicas Para el Establecimiento de Plantaciones Forestales en la America Tropical
William E. Ladrach
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Simple and Inexpensive Method for Extracting Wood Density Samples From Tropical Hardwoods
John K. Francis
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The Rain Forest in Tropical America: Forest Dynamics, Reforestation, Seed Handling, and Problems of Management
Carlos Vazquez-Yanes and Alma Orozco-Segovia
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El Bosque Lluviosa en America Tropical: Dinamica Forestal, Reforestacion, Manipulacion de la Semillas y Problemas de Manejo
Carlos Vazquez-Yanes and Alma Orozco-Segovia
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Increasing Seed Germination of Bursera graveolens, a Promising Tree for the Restoration of Tropical Dry Forests
Michael Morgan and Shibu Jose
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Effect of Seed Size on Seedling Growth of a Shade-Tolerant Tropical Tree (Hymanea stilbocarpa Haynes)
Marlene de Matos Malavasi and Ubirajara Contro Malavasi
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A Simply Made Cover for Seedbeds
Elbert A. Schory, Sr.
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Growing the Norfolk Island Pine
Blaine B. Logsdon
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Evaluation of Drought Tolerance in Five Native Caribbean Tree Species With Landscape Potential
Michael Morgan and Thomas W. Zimmerman
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Germination Rates of Bursera simaruba Seeds Subjected to Various Scarification Treatments
Michael Morgan and Thomas W. Zimmerman
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A Reforestation Profile of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Michael Morgan, Brian Daley, Louis Hilgemann and Thomas W. Zimmerman
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One-Year Results of Species Trial on Guam
Timothy J. Krohn
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Homemade Potting Mixes for Container Planting in the Pacific Islands
Roger G. Skolmen and Donovan S. Goo