xvi, 312pp, with numerous black and white illustrations in text. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt and red titles on front, gilt titles on red printed spine label. 8vo. Lightly rubbed and bumped spine ends, lender's shelf number on spine label; corners very lightly rubbed. Top text block edge dusty, lender's rubber stamp to top and fore edge. Lender's stamps, security device and markings on endpapers and prelims. Internally a neat, clean, bright and tight volume.
This book is about a computer simulation that is a model of how forests grow and change over time - the JABOWA forest model. This model and others derived from it have been widely used around the world including applications to forests of New Zealand, tropical forests and forests of Europe and North America.