Tropical Publications

Publications related to tropical plants.

• 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)
• 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.

• 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)
• 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.

• 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.
  • Manual de Semillas de Árboles Tropicales
• Manual on Nursery Practices (Jamaica) (2003)
• Arbuscular Mycorrhizas: Producing and Applying Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculum (2001)
• 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)
  • Volume 1: Rooting cuttings of tropical trees
  • Volume 2: Raising seedlings of tropical trees
  • Volume 3: Growing good tropical trees for planting
  • Volume 4: Preparing to plant tropical trees
• 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)