A remote sensing (RS)-based Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to characterize the breeding habitats of Anopheles minimus species A and C in five different districts of Kanchanaburi Province in western Thailand. The GIS and RS were used to monitor the area for the presence and absence of An. minimus A and C in five major land areas, forest, agriculture, urban, water and bare land. The...

Y. Balci, S. Balci, J. Eggers, and W. L. MacDonald, West Virginia University, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, 1090 South Agricultural Sciences Building, Morgantown 26506; J. Juzwik, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN 55108; R. P. Long, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Delaware, OH 43015; and K. W. Gottschalk...

Xiao-Yi Wang, Zhong-Qi Yang , , Juli R. Gould, Hui Wu and Jian-Hai Ma The Key Laboratory of Forest Protection, State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture, Otis ANGB, MA 02542 5008, USA Forestry Bureau of Sanming City in Fu...

Swidden agriculture is by far the dominant land use system in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia (SEA). It provides various valuable subsistence products to local farmers, mostly the poor ethnic minority groups. Controversially, it is also closely connected with a number of environmental issues. With the strengthening regional economic cooperation in SEA, swidden agriculture has experien...

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Over the last 200 years the wetlands of the Upper Tietê and Upper Paraíba do Sul basins, in the southeastern Atlantic Forest, Brazil, have been almost-completely transformed by urbanization, agriculture and mining. Endemic to these river basins, the São Paulo Marsh Antwren (Formicivora paludicola) survived these impacts, but remained unknown to science until its discovery in 2005. Its populatio...

Jung Il Seo, Futoshi Nakamura,* Kun Woo Chun, Suk Woo Kim and Gordon E. Grant 1 Department of Forest Resources, College of Industrial Sciences, Kongju National University, 54 Daehakro, Yesan, Chungcheongnamdo, 340-702, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Forest Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan 3 Department of ...

ce. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-635. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 389p. O'HARA, K. L., R. S. SEYMOUR, S. D. TESCH and J. M. GULDIN (1994): Silviculture and our changing profession: leadership for shifting paradigms. J. For. 92(1): 8-13 PETERSON, C. E. and D. A. MAGUIRE (eds). (2005): Balancing ecosystem values: innovative experime...