Capillary rise represents an often neglected fraction of the water budget that contributes to crop water demand in situations of s...
Authors: Awan, U.K.;Tischbein, B.;Martius, C.
Articles
Advocacy coalitions, REDD+, and forest governance in Papua New Guinea: how likely is transformational change?
Publication Year : 2014
Tropical forests in developing countries are increasingly being valued for their role in carbon sequestration. Such interest is re...
Authors: Babon, A.;McIntyre, D.;Gowae, G.Y.;Gallemore, C.;Carmenta, R.;Di Gregorio, M.;Brockhaus, M.
Minimizing Risks of Invasive Alien Plant Species in Tropical Production Forest Management
Publication Year : 2014
Timber production is the most pervasive human impact on tropical forests, but studies of logging impacts have largely focused on t...
Authors: Padmanaba, M.;Corlett, Richard T.
Integration of adaptation and mitigation in climate change and forest policies in Indonesia and Vietnam
Publication Year : 2014
Forests play a major role in both climate change mitigation and adaptation, but few policies, if any, integrate these two aspects....
Authors: Pham, T.T.;Moeliono, M.;Locatelli, B.;Brockhaus, M.;Di Gregorio, M.;Mardiah, S.
How does conversion of natural tropical rainforest ecosystems affect soil bacterial and fungal communities in the Nile river watershed of Uganda?
Publication Year : 2014
Uganda\'s forests are globally important for their conservation values but are under pressure from increasing human population and...
Authors: Alele, P.O.;Sheil, D.;Surget-Groba, Y.;Lingling, S.;Cannon, C.H.
Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires
Publication Year : 2014
Trans-boundary haze events in Southeast Asia are associated with large forest and peatland fires in Indonesia. These episodes of e...
Authors: Gaveau, D.L.A.;Salim, M.A.;Hergoualc\'h, K.;Locatelli, B.;Sloan, S.;Wooster, M.;Marlier, M.E.;Molidena, E.;Yaen, H.;DeFries, R.;Verchot, L.;Murdiyarso, D.;Nasi, R.;Holmgren, P.;Sheil, D.
Lessons for REDD+ from Cameroon's past forestry law reform: a political economy analysis
Publication Year : 2014
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) is gaining traction in Cam...
Authors: Dkamela, G.P.;Brockhaus, M.;Kengoum Djiegni, F.;Schure, J.;Assembe Mvondo, S.
Estimating the aboveground biomass of Bornean Forest
Publication Year : 2014
We apply a process-based model, called 3-PG (physiological principles for predicting growth), to estimate aboveground biomass for ...
Authors: Budiharta, S.;Silk, J.W.F;Raes, N.;Meijaard, E.;Erskine, P.D.;Wilson, K. A.
Carbon stocks of intact mangroves and carbon emissions arising from their conversion in the Dominican Republic
Publication Year : 2014
Mangroves are recognized to possess a variety of ecosystem services including high rates of carbon sequestration and storage. Defo...
Authors: Kauffman, J.B.;Heider, C.;Norfolk, J.;Payton, F.
Economic valuation of ecosystem services fails to capture biodiversity value of tropical forests
Publication Year : 2014
The reconciliation of biodiversity conservation, ecosystem service provision and agricultural production in tropical landscapes re...
Authors: Carrasco, L.R.;Nghiem, T.P.L.;Sunderland, T.C.H.;Koh, L.P.