31: Producing Framework Tree Species for Restoring Forest Ecosystems in Northern Thailand

Abstract: Since 1994, the Forest Restoration Research Unit of Chiang Mai University’s Biology Department (FORRU-CMU) has been developing methods to restore forest ecosystems to deforested sites...

32: A Technical Strategy for Restoring Krabi’s Lowland Tropical Forest

This report is one of the outputs from the project “Gurney’s Pitta Research and Conservation in Thailand and Myanmar”, implemented by the U.K.’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)...

33: 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...

34: A Field Guide to Forest Trees of Northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: This field guide provides information on over 75% of the native tree flora in northern Thailand. It gives detailed information on 430 native tree species and notes for an additional 450...

35: A Comparison of Growth of Naturally Established and Planted Trees in a Degraded Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest: Assessing the Potential for Forest Regeneration

Deforestation is widely acknowledged as a major environmental problem in the tropics, causing loss of biodiversity and environmental degradation (e.g. soil erosion) Therefore, this...

36: Recovery Rates of Some Framework Tree Species After Fire

Abstract: Recovery rates of some framework tree species affected by fire in April 2005, were compared in a 3-year-old FORRU experimental plot (40 X 40 sq m) above Ban Mae-Sa Mai, Mae Rim District,...

37: How to Plant a Forest: The Principles and Practice of Restoring Tropical Forests

FORRU-CMU's second practical training manual was published in 2005. It includes generic principles of restoration theory and practice, applicable throughout the tropics, as well as  descriptions...

38: 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,...

39: Seed Dispersal of Three Framework Tree Species and Seed Predation of Manglietia garrettii Craib

ABSTRACT: Deforestation is a serious problem in northern Thailand. Framework tree species are native forest trees that help to accelerate natural forest regeneration. Planting them can, therefore,...

40: Seed Dispersal and Germination of 2 Native Tree Species: Gmelina arborea (Roxb.) and Terminalia chebula Retz. var. chebula.

ABSTRACT: Forest restoration, using native forest trees (the so called “framework tree species”), requires detailed knowledge of the dispersal ecology of such trees. This project was conducted in...