1: Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes

ABSTRACT: In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, large knowledge gaps persist on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated tropical landscapes....

2: Diversity of Ground Flora in Restoration Area of The Siam Cement (Lampang) Co., Ltd Limestone Quarry

 Ground flora communities in framework species method restoration area of Siam cement (Lampang) Co. Ltd. limestone quarries were studied. adding top soil with the value of 2.81, 2.50 and 1.99,...

3: Where science meets communities: developing forest restoration approaches for northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: This paper contrasts lessons learned from two forest restoration research projects in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, near Chiang Mai City, northern Thailand, which combined science with...

4: Restoring Tropical Forests: a Practical Guide

Available in English, Spanish and French      The authors at a publishers' meeting, Kew 2012Restoring Tropical Forests is a hands-on guide to restoring degraded tropical forest ecosystems. Based...

5: The Framework Species Method: Restoring tropical forest biodiversity in a changing climate

ABSTRACT: The ultimate goal of forest restoration is to re-establish climax forest, with maximum biomass, structural complexity and species diversity that can be supported by the soil conditions...

6: 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...

7: Recovery of Lichen Diversity During Forest Restoration in Northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the recovery of lichen diversity during restoration of upland evergreen forest in northern Thailand. Lichen diversity and species frequencies were recorded within...

8: The effects of forest restoration activities on the species diversity of naturally establishing trees and ground flora

The framework species method of forest restoration aims to rapidly re-establish forest ecosystem structure and function. At the same time, it aims to encourage wildlife, attracted to the planted...

9: 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...

10: 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...