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Color plates are indicated as p1, p2, etc. Figures/other photos/tables are indicated by the numbers in italics accounting, 151, 155 acid tolerance, 89 acidification, soil, 94, 99, 247 acorns, p1, p14 annual vs. biennial, 16 certification of, 131 collection of, p7 dispersal of, 117 in food webs, 16 fungal pathogens on, 104 insects eating, 117–118 large vertebrate consumption of, 118 manipulation of, 130–131 pest attacks on, 104 physical characteristics of, 116 quality of, 130–131 storage of, 130–131 value of, 64 adaptive traits, genetic control of, 130 afforestation, 247 government aid for, 187 in Portugal, 153–154 present discounted value of, 183 with private ownership, 184–185 simulation of, 179 societal preferences for, 185–187 of southwestern Europe, 129 techniques of, Moroccan, 67
Africa, forest cover in, 238 agriculture, spread of, 49 agroforestry. See also silvopastoral systems accounting system, 151 historical changes in, 3 names for, 20 systems of, 2 Aguelmous, Morocco, 46–47 Akfadou, Algeria, 22–23 Alentejo region changing land use patterns in, 55–56 mixed woodland in, 153 Algeria, parks in, 209 allozyme, 247 altitude, maximum, 12 ambrosia beetles, 107 amplified fragment length polymorphism, 25–26, 247 animal communities, 205–206 animal products, price of, 212 antiquitine, 247 arbuscular mycorrhiza, 82, 247 aridity, increasing, 224 artificial landscapes, 211 autecology, 248 azaghar, 34–35 azhagar, 248 Balkan Peninsula, cork oak from, 28 Barbary deer, p9 bark stripping, p1–p2 base saturation, soil, 90, 248 307