'...the first internationally integrated study of bio-productivity since the IBP of the early 1970s...provides an assessment of an extremely important but under-researched biome.' Bulletin Mutteilungsblatt '...a tremendous data bank on tropical grasslands all over the world.' Acta Ecologica

• Aims, goals and general methods, S.P.Long and M.B.Jones; the primary productivity and photosynthesis of savanna grasses in Kenya - studies at Nairobi National Park, J.I.Kinyamario and S.K.Imbamba; saline grassland near Mexico City, E.Garcie-Moya and P.Montanez Castro; moist savannas of Thailand, A.Kamnalrut and J.Evenson; the productivity of echinochloa polystachya, a semiaquatic grass in the Amazonian floodplain, M.T.F.Piedade et al; the productivity and photosynthesis of bamboo with reference to phyllostachya pubescens forest in subtropical China, C-X.Qiu et al; remote sensing of primary producation in natural tropical grasslands and articifial mixed-species canopies, J.M.O.Scurlock; synthesis and conclusions, M.B.Jones and S.P.Long; UNEP epilogue, R.J.Olembo.

'...the first internationally integrated study of bio-productivity since the IBP of the early 1970s...provides an assessment of an extremely important but under-researched biome.' Bulletin Mutteilungsblatt '...a tremendous data bank on tropical grasslands all over the world.' Acta Ecologica

• Aims, goals and general methods, S.P.Long and M.B.Jones; the primary productivity and photosynthesis of savanna grasses in Kenya - studies at Nairobi National Park, J.I.Kinyamario and S.K.Imbamba; saline grassland near Mexico City, E.Garcie-Moya and P.Montanez Castro; moist savannas of Thailand, A.Kamnalrut and J.Evenson; the productivity of echinochloa polystachya, a semiaquatic grass in the Amazonian floodplain, M.T.F.Piedade et al; the productivity and photosynthesis of bamboo with reference to phyllostachya pubescens forest in subtropical China, C-X.Qiu et al; remote sensing of primary producation in natural tropical grasslands and articifial mixed-species canopies, J.M.O.Scurlock; synthesis and conclusions, M.B.Jones and S.P.Long; UNEP epilogue, R.J.Olembo.

'...the first internationally integrated study of bio-productivity since the IBP of the early 1970s...provides an assessment of an extremely important but under-researched biome.' Bulletin Mutteilungsblatt '...a tremendous data bank on tropical grasslands all over the world.' Acta Ecologica

• Aims, goals and general methods, S.P.Long and M.B.Jones; the primary productivity and photosynthesis of savanna grasses in Kenya - studies at Nairobi National Park, J.I.Kinyamario and S.K.Imbamba; saline grassland near Mexico City, E.Garcie-Moya and P.Montanez Castro; moist savannas of Thailand, A.Kamnalrut and J.Evenson; the productivity of echinochloa polystachya, a semiaquatic grass in the Amazonian floodplain, M.T.F.Piedade et al; the productivity and photosynthesis of bamboo with reference to phyllostachya pubescens forest in subtropical China, C-X.Qiu et al; remote sensing of primary producation in natural tropical grasslands and articifial mixed-species canopies, J.M.O.Scurlock; synthesis and conclusions, M.B.Jones and S.P.Long; UNEP epilogue, R.J.Olembo.