Sustainable harvesting of tropical rainforests: Reply to Keto, Scott and Olsen

Sustainable timber harvesting : simulation studies in the tropical rainforests of north eueensland

Although logging ceased in the tropical rainforests of north Queensland following their World Heritage Listing in 1988, they provide a good basis for simulation studies on sustainability of timber harvesting as reliable logging records, inventory and growth data are available. A growth model for these forests has been developed and published. The growth model is dynamic, responding to changes i...

Sustainable Production : Scott Swisher

“The debate on sustainable production often ends in discussions on the feasibility of farreaching changes in relation to the competitiveness of companies. Industry itself and policy-makers tend to back away from engaging in profound processes of industrial transformation” (Green, quotation frames the problem of moving towards sustainable production while dividing the issue into two separate yet...

No rattlesnakes in the rainforests: reply to Gosling and Bush.

Gosling & Bush (2005) criticize our interpretation (Wüster et al. 2005) of a phylogeographic analysis of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) as supporting a hypothesis of Pleistocene fragmentation of the Amazonian rainforests. We thank these two authors for the opportunity to further discuss issues concerning the ecological and biogeograph-ical history of the Amazon Basin. Gosling a...

Tropical rainforests: Diversity begets diversity

Tropical rainforests exhibit an extraordinarily high level of biological diversity. A new study shows that the patterns of seedling survival surrounding parent trees are responsible in large part for this amazing diversity.

High resilience of tropical rainforests to climate change