Authors: Asquith, N.M.; Wunder, S.; eds.
Payments for watershed services: the Bellagio conservation
Publication Year : 2008
Payments for watershed services: the Bellagio conservation
Publication Year : 2008
Food and Biodiversity
Gobernanza Ambiental y el surgimiento de movimientos forestales de base
Publication Year : 2008
Authors: Cronkleton, P.; Taylor, P.L.; Barry, D.; Stone-Jovicich, S.; Schmink, M.
Wood density as a conservation tool: Quantification of disturbance and identification of conservation-priority areas in tropical forests
Publication Year : 2008
Inventories of tree species are often conducted to guide conservation efforts in tropical forests. Such surveys are time consuming, demanding…
Authors: Slik, J.W.F.; Bernard, C.S.; Breman, F.C.; Van Beek, M.; Salim, A.; Sheil, D.
Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues
Publication Year : 2008
Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as amechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into…
Authors: Engel, S.; Pagiola, S.; Wunder, S.
Impacts of payments for environmental services on local development in northern Costa Rica: A fuzzy multi-criteria analysis
Publication Year : 2008
Market mechanisms for forest environmental services are increasingly used for promoting environmental conservation, and their impacts on development are of…
Authors: Locatelli, B.; Rojas, V.; Salinas, Z.
A revision of the genus Podococcus (Arecaceae)
Publication Year : 2008
A taxonomic revision of the palm genus Podococcus (Arecaceae) is presented. Two species are recognised:P. barteri, a species relatively widespread…
Authors: van Valkenburg, J.L.C.H.; Sunderland, T.C.H.
Financing forest conservation in Uganda
Publication Year : 2008
Authors: van Heist, M.; Sheil, D.; Bitariho, P.; Kasangaki, A.
Distinguishing dung from blue, red and yellow-backed duikers through noninvasive genetic techniques
Publication Year : 2008
Dung counts have been widely used to estimate duiker abundance and densities in tropical African forests. However, one of the…
Authors: Van Vliet, N.; Zundel,S; Miguel, C.; Taberlet, P; Nasi, R.
Site management and productivity in tropical plantation forests: Proceedings of Workshops in Piracicaba (Brazil) 22-26 November 2004 and Bogor (Indonesia) 6-9 November 2006
Publication Year : 2008
These proceedings present results from research done for a decade in the CIFOR project Site Management and Productivity in Tropical…
Authors: Nambiar, E.K.S.; ed.
Herbaceous species responses to long-term effects of prescribed fire, grazing and selective tree cutting in the savanna-woodlands of West Africa
Publication Year : 2008
Grazing, fire and selective tree cutting are major disturbances that shape species diversity in savanna ecosystems, yet their effects are…
Authors: Savadogo, P.; Tiveau, D.; Sawadogo, L.; Tigabu, M.