1: BOOK REVIEW: Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan by Peter Ashton and David Lee. University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13 978-0-226-53569-2  

"...this profoundly inspirational book is a must-buy for anyone interested in tropical forests. It is a major reference work, which well-deserves a place on the bookshelves of all teachers and...

2: The interface between forest science and policy—a review of the IUFRO international and multidisciplinary scientific conference 4–7 October 2016: forestry-related policy and governance: analyses in the environmental social sciences

ABSTRACT: This commentary uses the experience of attending the “Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Forestry-related Policy and Governance” to contrast the lack of progress with...

3: James Franklin Maxwell 1945-2015 – an extraordinary botanist

This is the obituary and life story of J. F. Maxwell "Acharn Max", a talented botanist who established the herbarium in CMU Biology Department in 1992 and continued to curate it until his death in...

4: Second Growth : The Promise of Tropical Rain Forest Regeneration in the Age of Deforestation—Review

Robin Chazdon  In Second Growth, Robin Chazdon conveys the message that tropical forests are “malleable” and should be helped to achieve their maximum potential for regeneration wherever...

5: Book Review: Regreening the Bare Hills: Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region by David Lamb. 

Image David Lamb, one of the founding fathers of forest restoration science in the Asia Pacific region, and an enthusiastic patron of FORRU-CMU, penned "Regreeening...

6: Replanting the World's Tropical Forests 

A review of a symposium entitled "The Art and Practice of Conservation Planting", organized by the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute in September 2001 in Taipei. The symposium was meant to focus...

7: Workshop Review: Can tree plantations restore degraded tropical forests?

SUMMARY: About 15 million sq km of the tropics is classified as “degraded". One way to rehabilitate degraded land and take the pressure off remaining forest is to establish plantations of...

8: Preserving Northern Thailand's Botanical Diversity

In 1995, the herbarium collection of CMU's Biology Department was moved into a brand new custom-built facility. The plant specimen collection, the database derived from it and the encyclopaedic...

9: Measuring and monitoring biodiversity in tropical and temperate forests - review of an international symposium

The international symposium on "Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity in Tropical and Temperate Forests" was organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations and the Royal...

10: Can community forestry save biodiversity?

SUMMARY: All over the world, governments are handing over control of state forests to local communities, in the hope that local communities will manage them better than state agencies have. But...