51: 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...

52: The effect of artificial perches and local vegetation on bird-dispersed seed deposition into regenerating sites

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of the role of birds in natural regeneration could be used to accelerate and reduce the costs of forest restoration. The objectives of this study were to determine: (1) whether...

53: Propagating native trees to restore degraded forest ecosystems in northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: Producing a wide range of native forest tree species to restore forest ecosystems for biodiversity conservation is beset with nursery-scheduling problems. Different species produce seeds...

54: Nursery technology and tree species selection for restoring forest biodiversity in northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: The Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU) was established in 1994 to develop methods to restore forest ecosystems in degraded areas for the conservation of biodiversity in northern...

55: Implementing the Agenda

The main outcome of FORRU-CMU's first international workshop was the "Chiang Mai Research Agenda for the Restoration of Degraded Forest Lands for Wildlife Conservation in Southeast Asia". This...

56: 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...

57: Forests for the Future: Growing and Planting Native Trees for Restoring Forest Ecosystems

All over Thailand, people who are concerned about the rapid destruction of the Kingdom's once magnificent forest are banding together to plant trees. Gone are the days when plantations of pines...

58: Low technology tree propagation and the restoration of natural forest ecosystems

ABSTRACT: Loss of forests, and their associated biodiversity, is a serious issue in many developing tropical countries. Throughout northern Thailand for example, large areas within national parks...

59: Forest restoration research in conservation areas in northern Thailand

Loss of forests and their associated biodiversity is a serious issue in many tropical countries. In Thailand, for example, forest cover has been reduced from about 53% in the early 1960s...

60: Selecting species for restoring degraded forests in northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a system to score the suitability of tree seedling species for planting, to accelerate natural forest regeneration on degraded sites within protected areas in...