11: Young Forest Restorers—Action Book

This user-friendly booklet guides school children through a series of hands-on forest-restoration activities from seed collection and germination to growing trees in nurseries, tree planting,...

12: Living Fungi in an Opencast Limestone Mine: Who Are They and What Can They Do? 

Abstract: Opencast limestone mines or limestone quarries are considered challenging ecosystems for soil fungi as they are highly degraded land with specific conditions, including high...

13: Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery to Monitor Progress of Early Forest Ecosystem Restoration in an Opencast Mine

ABSTRACT: Monitoring forest restoration is essential for improving and advancing restoration techniques, but human-based monitoring is costly as it requires intensive labour in the field. Although...

14: Multi-Scenario Simulations of Future Forest Cover Changes Influenced by Socio-Economic Development: A Case Study in the Chiang Mai-Lamphun Basin

Abstract: Changes in land cover in the Chiang Mai-Lamphun basin have been influenced by pressures of rapid socio-economic developments. The Markov-cellular automata and a multi-layer perceptron...

15: Bar-HRM for Species Confirmation of Native Plants Used in Forest Restoration in Northern Thailand

ABSTRACT: Plant species confirmation is a crucial step in using native plant species for forest restoration. To enhance this, a hybrid method of DNA barcoding and high-resolution melting analysis...

16: Exploring the Environment & Nature of Chiang Mai: a Teachers' Handbook—ENGLISH VERSION 

  The Thai version of the manual received 3rd prize in the writing category of the Green Globe Institute Awards. Phai and Som (our education officers), who were primary writers and designers of...

17: Seed dispersal and seed predation between natural forest and restored forest area in Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai

ABSTRACT: Seed dispersal and seed predation are natural mechanisms reflecting natural regeneration. The objective of this study was to compare seed dispersal and the effect of seed predators in a...

18: Comparison of seedling detection and height measurement using 3D point cloud models from three software tools: applications in forest restoration

ABSTRACT: A challenge for forest restoration is monitoring success, particularly in terms of seedling survivorship. 3D-point-cloud models, generated from aerial images taken from unmanned aerial...

19: Comparative study on tree seedling growth rate and diversity between a natural forest and a restored forest area in Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai

ABSTRACT: In 1967, Thailand had forest cover as high as 53.22 percent of the country's land area, but in 2021 the forest area was reduced to 31.68 percent, of which 63.99 percent was forested in...

20: The diversity of mammal in natural and restored forest in Mae Rim district, Chiang Mai Province

Forest areas in Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province, have been converted to farmlands, causing the area to deteriorate and affecting wildlife habitats. Various organizations are working to...