11: Smart seed for automated forest restoration.

ABSTRACT: Aerial seeding may be an effective way to restore forest ecosystems on inaccessible or remote sites; it has been used for almost 80 years in agriculture and now is a widespread practice...

12: Allelopathy for weed management in forest restoration

ABSTRACT: In forest restoration, weeds compete with tree seedlings for water, nutrients, sunlight and space, as well as act as habitat for pests and diseases. Allelopathy - the inhibition of one...

13: Developing aerial seeding by UAVs: lessons from direct seeding

ABSTRACT: Direct seeding means sowing the seeds of forest tree species directly into the substrate of restoration sites. It is cheaper than conventional tree planting, but seed predation is high...

14: Applications of remote sensing for tropical forest restoration: challenges and opportunities

ABSTRACT: The tremendous physical and material efforts, required to accurately assess forest degradation and to plan and monitor vegetation recovery using conventional ground surveys, often limit...

15: Forest restoration: concepts and the potential for its automation

ABSTRACT: In 2014, the UN New York Climate Summit set a goal to restore forest to 350 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, to counter climate change. Conventional tree-planting with human...

16: Quality and production costs of seedlings grown with different root-pruning techniques

Abstract: About half of the cost of forest restoration by the framework species method (FSM) is planting stock production costs. Manual root pruning promotes better tree seedlings, but is time...

17: The ecology and technology of accelerating forest ecosystem recovery

Whilst the science of restoration has improved greatly over recent years, the technologies for implementing it remain primitive. Nearly all accessible land is already used for agriculture. So,...

18:  Principles of restoring tropical forest ecosystems and opportunities for conserving endemic, endangered and threatened tree species

ABSTRACT Restoring tropical forest ecosystems involves manipulating natural regeneration to achieve the maximum biomass, structure, biodiversity and ecological functioning that are possible within...

19: Potential seed predators in an abandoned agricultural area in northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: One limitation of forest restoration by direct seeding in degraded areas is seed predation by animals foraging on the ground. Seeds sown on the ground can be removed or destroyed leading...

20: Fire resilience of framework tree species in hill evergreen forest

This paper won an award for best oral presentation at the national conference: "Biological and Cultural Diversity: Living in Harmony" - run by the NSTDA (National Science and Technology...