This paper analyses the underlying causes of secondary forest formation and recovery in India, particularly the Western Ghats regi...

Authors: Bhat, D.M.;Murali, K.S.;Ravindranath, N.H.

Indonesia has extensive areas of post extraction secondary forests and degraded lands arising from intensive exploitation of fores...

Authors: Kartawinata, K.;Riswan, S.;Gintings, A.N.;Puspitojati, T.

Secondary forests are the largest and most dynamic natural forest ecosystems in the Philippines. This paper examines the character...

Authors: Lasco, R.D.;Visco, R.G.;Pulhin, J.M.

Much of mainland Southeast Asia\'s primary forest has been converted into secondary vegetation types in the past several decades. ...

Authors: Mittelman, A.

Most forests in tropical Nepal are secondary, resulting largely from episodes of large-scale timber harvesting in the past along w...

Authors: Kanel, K.R.;Shrestha, K.

Estimates of the area of swidden fallow secondary forest in Indonesia are inaccurate, partly because swidden agricultural practice...

Authors: de Jong, W.;van Noordwijk, M.;Sirait, M.;Liswanti, N.

Secondary forests form a major component of the forest types in the Central Himalayan region and in the north eastern hills of Ind...

Authors: Ramakrishnan, P.S.;Kushwaha, S.P.S.

Swidden farming is the main agent of conversion of primary forests to secondary forests in the highlands of mainland Southeast Asi...

Authors: Schmidt-Vogt, D.

Most forests in Sri Lanka are secondary, are mostly confined to the dry and intermediate zones of the country, and arise out of sw...

Authors: Perera, G.A.D.

Large scale, catastrophic fires have become a significant and visible part of the tropical forest landscape in the past two decade...

Authors: Dennis, R.A.;Hoffmann, A.;Applegate, G.;von Gemmingen, G.;Kartawinata, K.