NEW: Amazon Forest and Savanna Lands

A guide to the climates, vegetation, landscapes, and soils of central tropical South America

Irrigation book for Santa Cruz:

Contact Information:

Telephone (New Zealand):       

+64 3 364 2378

FAX (New Zealand):

+64 3 364 2758

 

Postal address (Dr Tom Cochrane):  

Dept. of Civil and Nat. Resources

University of Canterbury

Private Bag 4800

Christchurch,

New Zealand

 

www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/cochrane

Just released:

Amazon Forest and Savanna Lands

A guide to the climates, vegetation, landscapes, and soils of central tropical South America

Authored by Thomas T. Cochrane, Thomas A. Cochrane

This book provides an overview of the land resources of the Amazon in terms of the complex of climates, landscapes, vegetation and soils found throughout this vast, often misunderstood region. It has been prepared for a broad audience of scientists, agronomists, foresters, farmers, ecologists and also administrators. The study is partly a sequel to the original Land Systems study of the region carried out by the senior author between 1976 and 1980 that was published with the title "Land in Tropical America"; however it includes a wealth of interesting information from subsequent studies conducted by the authors over the past 30 years. Apart from the additional detailed land resource studies of Amazonia summarized in the book, it provides a fresh and novel insight into the ecological complex of forest and savanna lands throughout the region. Further, it includes a gamma of technical information of importance to the study and understanding of tropical lands in general.

You can buy this book here (click on the link): Amazon.com

or from here https://www.createspace.com/3453794

ISBN / EAN13:  1452866376 / 9781452866376

Pages: 190, Full color

Language: English

Reference studies (when using these please reference appropriately):

To obtain direct access to the books reference studies, please send a requesting e-mail to .  You will be given access to the following information:

1. Personal Computer Version with Database of the Study "Land in Tropical America".  Also see items in section below.
2. The Lands of the Geo-Economic Region of Brasilia:  Personal Computer Version with Database
3. The Lands of the Northern Amazonian Region of Bolivia:  Personal Computer Version with Database
4. The Lands of the State of Rondonia, Brazil:  Personal Computer Version with Database
5. SIGTERON: Sistema de informacao geografica para os terrenos e solos do estado de Rondonia, Brasil
6. Analisis de Suelos y Plantas Tropicales.  Un Manual de Metodos Modernos.

Personal Computer version of the study: Land in Tropical America

Agteca S.A. with cooperation from Conservation International and the Museo NKM Santa Cruz digitized and improved the original study by T.T. Cochrane.  Here we present a basic description of the data (Manual), the digitized maps and an improved database.  Please acknowledge usage of data and maps and report any errors to .  Thanks!

Introductory Manual

Database of soils and terrain

GIS Maps

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Scanned maps from the original study:

 

                                 Last modified: July 23, 2010