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Book reviews AgroforestrySystems 14: 245--252, 1991. Cordia alliodora: a promising tree for tropical agroforestry. By A. Greaves and P.S. McCarter. 1990, VII + 37 pp. Tropical Forestry Papers, no. 22. Oxford Forestry Institute, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. ISBN 085074 1173; ISSN 0141-9668. Price £4.50. Following the annotated bibliography (see review in Agroforestry Systems Vol. 12, No. 3, 285) this is one of the outstanding monographs on fast- growing and/or promising timber trees, formerly issued in the series 'Fast Growing Timber Trees of the Lowland Tropics', later replaced by the 'Tropical Forestry Papers'. This publication not only summarizes the results of extension OFI work on provenance variation in Cordia alliodora but also reviews all the infor- mation on the species published up to 1987. It is intended to provide the manager with an insight into past experience with the species and to draw attention to the range of management options that are available. Cordia alliodora is a fast-growing forest tree of continental tropical America from central Mexico to northern Argentina, also with a wide occurence among the Caribbean islands. It is one of the pioneer species sometimes forming almost pure stands after http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agroforestry Systems Springer Journals

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Life Sciences; Forestry; Agriculture
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AgroforestrySystems 14: 245--252, 1991. Cordia alliodora: a promising tree for tropical agroforestry. By A. Greaves and P.S. McCarter. 1990, VII + 37 pp. Tropical Forestry Papers, no. 22. Oxford Forestry Institute, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. ISBN 085074 1173; ISSN 0141-9668. Price £4.50. Following the annotated bibliography (see review in Agroforestry Systems Vol. 12, No. 3, 285) this is one of the outstanding monographs on fast- growing and/or promising timber trees, formerly issued in the series 'Fast Growing Timber Trees of the Lowland Tropics', later replaced by the 'Tropical Forestry Papers'. This publication not only summarizes the results of extension OFI work on provenance variation in Cordia alliodora but also reviews all the infor- mation on the species published up to 1987. It is intended to provide the manager with an insight into past experience with the species and to draw attention to the range of management options that are available. Cordia alliodora is a fast-growing forest tree of continental tropical America from central Mexico to northern Argentina, also with a wide occurence among the Caribbean islands. It is one of the pioneer species sometimes forming almost pure stands after

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