1: Comparison of Soil Microbial Communities in Opencast Limestone Mine and Mine Rehabilitation Sites

Opencast mining is considered as an extreme form of land degradation, requiring an intensive array of rehabilitation practices. The mine rehabilitation practice, in the semiopencast limestone mine...

2: Factors Affecting the Recruitment of Tree Species in Restored Tropical Forest, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Abstract: FORRU-CMU has been developing and adapting the framework species method of forest restoration (FWS) to restore tropical forest ecosystems to degraded forest land in northern Thailand,...

3: Determination of aboveground carbon sequestration in restored forest by framework species method

ABSTRACT: Tropical deforestation reduces the global terrestrial carbon sink and substantially contributes towards global climate change. Conversely, tropical forest restoration could help to...

4: The Framework Species Approach to Forest Restoration: Using Functional Traits as Predictors of Species Performance.

Abstract: Due to forest degradation and loss, the use of ecological restoration techniques has become of particular interest in recent years. One such method is the Framework Species Approach...

5: Reproductive Ecology and Propagation of Fig Trees (Ficus spp.) as Framework Trees for Forest Restoration

ABSTRACT: Fig trees (Ficus spp.) have been promoted as framework species for tropical forest restoration, because they are considered to be keystone species. This study investigated the...

6: Tree Colonization of Abandoned Agricultural Clearings in Seasonal Tropical Montane Forest in Northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: In 1994 the Thai Government embarked upon a nationwide project to restore degraded forests. One approach to such an endeavour is to assist natural regeneration (ANR) by managing a site...

7: The establishment and survival of native trees on degraded hillsides in Hong Kong

ABSTRACT: Deforestation and land degradation in the tropics and subtropics are proceeding at an unprecedented rate, threatening a massive loss in global biodiversity, comprising a fifth of the...