Most biodiversity assessment methods tend to sample isolated areas of land cover such as closed forest or local land use mosaics. ...

Authors: Gillison, A.N.;Liswanti, N.

Criteria and indicators to assess sustainability have been desingned to promote the implementation of sustainable forest managemen...

Authors: Pokorny, B.;Sabogal, C.;Silva, J.N.M.;Lima, J.;Bernardo, P.

Management in the production forest concessions of the Congo Basin is based on rotation principles, with the concessionary industr...

Authors: Fargeot, C.;Forni, E.;Nasi, R.

The forests of the Congo Basin are exploited by rural communities and timber companies at different scales to meet various conflic...

Authors: Ndoye, O.;Tieguhong, J.C.

In many traditionally managed agroecosystems, populations of domesticated plants maintain high levels of genetic diversity. The th...

Authors: Alvarez, N.;Garine, E.;Khasah, C.;Dounias, E.;Hossaert-McKey, M.;McKey, D.

Tropical biologists need help. Examples show that local people can be trained to be effective parataxonomists, greatly assisting e...

Authors: Sheil, D.;Lawrence, A.

During the last two decades, the Costa Rican government has promoted the establishment of Tectona grandis plantations for sawn tim...

Authors: Kanninen, M.;Perez Cordero, L.D.;Montero, M.;Viquez, E.

Asian policymakers need to know how changes in land uses and practices related to forests affect flooding, dry season stream flow,...

Authors: Kaimowitz, D.

Mathematical proofs show that rate estimates, for example of mortality and recruitment, will decrease with increasing census inter...

Authors: Lewis, S.L.;Phillips, O.L.;Sheil, D.;Vinceti, B.;Baker, T.R.;Brown, S.;Graham, A.W.;Higuchi, N.;Hilbert, D.W.;Laurance, W.F.;Lejoly, J.;Malhi, Y.;Monteagudo, A.;Vargas, P.N.;Sonke, B.;Terborgh, J.W.;Martinez, R.V.

The area of forest plantations in the tropics worldwide is increasing as a response to the expansion of degraded lands. Rural farm...

Authors: Piotto, D.;Montagnini, F.;Kanninen, M.;Ugalde, L.;Viquez, E.