subject: Safety Equipment And Technique For Climbing Rain Forest Trees [print this page] Timothy G. Laman, Biotropica Vol. 27 Timothy G. Laman, Biotropica Vol. 27
Tropical biologists assert recently came to realize with the aim of the access to the light rain forest canopy provides a wealth of fresh inexperienced possibilities. Canopy studies arrange been reviewed by Nadkarni (1988a), Wilson (1991), Lowman and Moffett (1993), and Moffett (1993), and are hastily expanding. This exercise has been restricted by the old techniques in the sphere of order to get through to the treetops. Perry pioneered the drive of "single rope technique" to climbing trees and this practice has been described in the sphere of the line of several papers (Perry 1978, Perry & Williams 1981, Whitacre 1981, Mitchell 1982, Nadkarni 1988b). A variety of other methods are, in the sphere of addition, being utilized in the sphere of back of safely getting the canopy, such in the same way as