TY  - BOOK
AU  - Webb, James L.A.
TI  - Tropical pioneers: human agency and ecological change in the highlands of Sri Lanka 1800-1900
SN  - 0821414275
U1  - 577.3409549309034 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Nature--Effect of human beings on
KW  - Rain forest ecology
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Agricultural ecology
KW  - Human ecology
N1  - 1. The natural ecology of the island and processes of early ecological change --
2. The highland ecologies in the early nineteenth century --
3. Early-nineteenth century processes of change --
4. The transformation of the middle highlands --
5. Into the upeer highlands --
Appendixes: --
1. Sir Joseph Banks, director of Kew Gardens, on the principles on which a colonial botanic garden in Ceylon should be founded --
2. Sir Joseph Bank's instructions to William Kerr, first gardener of the Royal Botanic Garden, Ceylon --
3. Burning the forest --
4. Cinchona harveting --
5. Superintendents, assistant directors, and directors of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, in the nineteenth century
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