Big-Leaf Mahogany Genetics, Ecology, and Management
Big-Leaf Mahogany is the most important commercial timber species of the tropics. Current debate concerning whether to protect it as an endangered species has been hampered by the lack of complete, definitive scientific documentation. This book reports on
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Edited by I.T. Baldwin, Jena, Germany M.M. Caldwell, Logan, USA G. Heldmaier, Marburg, Germany O.L. Lange, Würzburg, Germany H.A. Mooney, Stanford, USA E.-D. Schulze, Jena, Germany U. Sommer, Kiel, Germany
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Ariel E. Lugo Julio C. Figueroa Colón Mildred Alayón Editors
Big-Leaf Mahogany Genetics, Ecology, and Management
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Ariel E. Lugo International Institute of Tropical Forestry USDA Forest Service Río Piedras, PR 00928-5000 USA [email protected]
Julio C. Figueroa Colón Puerto Rico Conservation Foundation Urbanización Puerto Nuevo San Juan, PR 00920-4131 USA jfi[email protected]
Mildred Alayón International Institute of Tropical Forestry USDA Forest Service Río Piedras, PR 00928-5000 USA [email protected] Cover illustration: Large big-leaf mahogany tree in Chiapas, Mexico. The tree is approximately 70 meters tall. Photo credit: Julio C. Figueroa Colón.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Big-leaf mahogany: genetics, ecology, and management/editors, Ariel E. Lugo, Julio C. Figueroa Colón, Mildred Alayón. p.; cm.—(Ecological studies; v. 159) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-387-98837-8 (hc: alk. paper) 1. Honduras mahogany. I. Lugo, Ariel E. II. Figueroa Colón, Julio C. III. Alayón, Mildred. IV. Series SD397 .H67 B54 2002 634.9¢7377—dc21 2002019727 ISSN 0070-8356 ISBN 0-387-98837-8
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Preface: Knowledge—and Conserving Mahogany
Since the 1930s, the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) Forest Service’s International Institute of Tropical Forestry (the Institute) has studied mahogany and its management. In the 1960s, F.B. Lamb, the author of the classic book on mahogany (1966), was an Institute collaborator. Before gene flow and genetic erosion became popular terms, my predecessor Frank Wadsworth established a gene bank at the Luquillo Experimental Forest. This project required two expeditions to Central America in successive years (1958 a
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