21: Research for Restoring Tropical Forest Ecosystems: A Practical Guide

Aimed at researchers and their supervisors, this technical manual describes how to establish a forest restoration research unit (FORRU) and implement a research program to determine how best to...

22: Appropriate Tree Species and Techniques for Direct Seeding for Forest Restoration in Chiang Mai and Lamphun Provinces

ABSTRACT: Most forest restoration projects involve planting nursery-raised tree seedlings, but this is highly labour- and capital-intensive. Seed collection, raising seedlings in a nursery,...

23: Direct seeding for forest restoration on abandoned agricultural land in northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: Seed predation and desiccation present major limitations to the use of direct seeding as an efficient forest restoration technique. The study presented here tested the hypotheses that...

24: Forest Restoration for Wildlife Conservation

In 2000, there was little interest in restoring tropical forest ecosystems as wildlife habitat. The need was to consolidate the concept and to identify how scientific research might contribute...

25: The Chiang Mai Research Agenda for the Restoration of Degraded Forestlands for Wildlife Conservation in Southeast Asia

Back in 2000, forest restoration research was far from main stream. Deforestation was regarded as irreversible and the idea that ecologists could actually find a way to restore tropical forest...

26: 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...