An interdisciplinary assessment of the conservation practices on forest soils in Mexico was conducted (1) to evaluate their effectiveness in terms of soil quality indicators and (2) to use social indicators of their acceptance and execution. After 4
[b3] Fac. de Ciencias de la Tierra, UNAM, Mexico, Mexique
[b4] Fac. de Ciencias Políticas, UNAM, Mexico, Mexique
Effects of wildfire and laboratory heating on soil aggregate stability of pine forests in Galicia : the role of lithology, soil organic matter content and water repellency
Africa ; Bibliography ; Central Africa ; Congo ; Database ; Ecosystem ; Environmental management ; Forest resource ; Forestry ; French ; French speaking countries ; Humid climate ; Natural biological resources ; Resource management ; Sub-Saharan
Africa ; Sustainable use ; Tropical forest ; Tropical zone
Africa ; Africa central ; Africa subsahariana ; Base dato ; Bibliografía ; Bosque tropical ; Ciencias forestales ; Clima húmedo ; Congo Brazzaville ; Ecosistema ; Exploitación sustentable ; Francés ; Gestiòn medio ambiente ; Gestión recursos
; Países francófonos ; Recurso biológico natural ; Recurso forestal ; Zona tropical
Estimación de la biomasa residual procedente de la gestión forrestal en Bizkaia
Basque Country ; Biomass ; Cartography ; Energy ; Energy potential ; Forest ; Forestry ; Geographical information system ; Spain ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial distribution
[b2] Departamento de Ingenería y Metalúrgica y Ciencia de los Materiales, Univ. U.P.V./E.H.U., San Sebastián, Espagne
The AA. consider the role played by forest struggles and forest intellectuals in the rewriting of India's forest policies. They also evaluate the utility of a moral economy framework in guiding joint forest management policies. They draw on village
-level fieldwork to highlight the value of an approach to the management of Degraded Protected Forests that offer a key role to active and informed forest citizens.
Administración forestal ; Africa ; Africa central ; Africa occidental ; Bosque tropical ; Camerun ; Ciencias forestales ; Congreso internacional ; Desarrollo durable ; Europa ; Europa del Oeste ; Países en desarrollo ; Proyecto ; TIERRAS FORESTALES
Africa ; Cameroon ; Central Africa ; Developing countries ; Europe ; FOREST LAND ; Forest management ; Forestry ; International conference ; Intertropical zone ; Project ; Sustainable development ; Temperate zone ; Tropical forest ; West Africa
Agriculture ; Argentina ; Deforestation ; Forest ; Plant canopy ; Population growth ; Rural outmigration ; Tropical rain forest
[b2] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Ecología Regional, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Univ. Nacional, Tucumán, Argentine
Forest ; Index ; Landscape ecology ; Methodology ; Slovenia
The article presents methodology of defining forest fragmentation on raster data. Eight indices (forest proportion, forest continuity, moderated weighted forest area, edge zone proportion, average forest depth, average forest dismemberment, average
distance from the forest, average forest isolation) quantitatively define forest dismemberment, fragmentation respectively forest disintegration stage. Presented methodology is partly adopted, further modified and adapted to Slovenian conditions. - (IKR)
Ecological studies of mixed forests in Nopporo National Forest, Central Hokkaido, Japan. Relations between the distribution of aged forests and environmental factors
In Nopporo National Forest, thirteen forest communities which were determined by dominant species and three soil types were observed. - (SGA)
Agriculture ; Argentina ; Deforestation ; Demographic change ; Forest ; Migratory balance ; Plant canopy ; Population ; Population growth ; Rural outmigration ; Rural population ; Soya bean ; Tropical rain forest
[b2] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Ecología Regional, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Univ. Nacional, Tucumán, Argentine
The impact of forest canopy structure on deposition amounts was studied by extensive throughfall monitoring in thirty different forest stands in the Netherlands. It is concluded that emission reductions on a regional and (inter)national scale level
The basics of sustainable forest management in forest promotional complexes
Biodiversity ; Concept ; Dead wood ; Decision making process ; Ecosystem ; Environmental management ; Forest ; Forestry ; Sustainable development
The intent to create Forest Promotional Complex (FPC) was introducing a new quality to Polish forestry – by taking into account social preference for forests, by embracing local community needs, by compromising forest production with nature
protection and to introduce the rules of sustainable and balanced forest development. Main subject of this study is a dead wood and its ecological functions in managed forests and chosen FPC reserves. The problem of naturalization or ecologisation of forest
[b1] Forest Ecology Unit, Forest Research Unit, Raszyn, Pologne
In this article the use of the term secondary forest is restricted to forests which have reoccupied a site after clearance. The literature on tropical forest succession is reviewed, showing the importance of the type, intensity and scale
of the disturbance, the nature of the surrounding landscape and the composition of the surviving disperser fauna. The value of tropical secondary forests is compared to primary forest, with regards to regulatory function, commercial value and conservation
The AA. assert that only through profitable management of forests for timber and non-timber products can forest cover be maintained in competition with pressures to convert forest land to other uses. This sustainability concept is important, since
parks can provide protection for only a small fraction of the remaining forests in Latin America.―(DWG)
The area of the tropical forests has been shrinking fast in the last decades and, moreover, considerable parts of the remaining natural forests are in a process of degradation, mainly due to overexploitation, intensified pasture farming and frequent
fires. This process of decline in large parts of the tropical forest belt concerns more and more the public and politicians in the industrialized countries as well as increasingly also in parts of the developing countries. - (L'A.).
Possible impact of climatic change on forested landscapes in Central Europe: a review
Central Europe ; Climatic variability ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Ecosystem ; Europe ; Forest ; Forestry ; Impact ; Landscape ; Palynology
This paper briefly reviews and tentatively discusses 1) former climatic changes and their impact on forests, 2) the impact of climatic warming on the genetic constitution of forest trees, their physiological processes, and the possible alteration
of forest environments, 3) the changes in the latitudinal and altitudinal zonation of forests, 4) the repercussions of possible diseases and pests on the vitality of forests, and 5) changes in the function of forests in Central European landscapes.
The A. briefly reviews major themes in published tropical forest research between 1991 and 1992 inclusive in an attempt to identify what questions are believed to be important.
Biogeography ; Ecology ; Ecosystem ; Forest ; Habitat ; Photosynthesis ; Tree species ; Tropical rain forest
The A. reviews the mainstream ecological literature from 1994 to 1995 to gauge the importance of ecophysiological studies in understanding the ecology of tropical rain forests.