Though often overlooked, small wetlands in an upland matrix can support diverse plant communities that increase both local and regional species richness. Here we characterize the full range of wetland vegetation within an upland forest landscape and compare the diversity and composition of different wetland plant communities. In an old-growth forest reserve in southern Quebec, Canada, we sample...

Rural communities around Akure forest reserve depend mostly on and its products for their livelihoods, which results in high rate of deforestation. Meanwhile, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation Degradation programme (REDD+), one international forest-governance initiatives to address sustainable anagement climate change mitigation has been introduced reserve. This research investigated so...

The scope of the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanism has broadened REDD+ to accommodate different country interests such as natural forests, protected areas, as well as forests under communitybased management. In Tanzania the REDD+ mechanism is still under development and pilot projects are at an early stage. In this paper, we seek to understand how loc...

Introduction Forest resources are an important source of products on which rural communities depend for survival. Mpanga Central Reserve (CFR) is a valuable resource to adjacent through provision different goods and serves subsistence income generation. It also as eco-tourist site. However, there scanty information regarding the obtained from CFR their contribution livelihoods communities. Meth...

The Parvati Aranga wildlife sanctuary and adjoining Tikri reserve forest in northeastern Terai region of Uttar Pradesh with its varied ecological habitats and occurrence of patchy wetlands in form of ‘River’ and ‘Tals’ sustains a variety of plant communities. The area also harbours a rich diversity of economical and medicinal plant species, mainly confined to the peripheral region of the forest...

This paper aims to clarify the conservation and management system by multiple local stakeholders adapt transition of function use coastal forest. We focused on forests Kanazawa City with recreational facilities, understand forest based community, establishment a for reserve. The development projects have been carried out villages since Meiji period, current were formed through large-scale affor...

A riparian zone is the land adjacent to streams and rivers, known to be one of the most important habitats in the tropical forest. However, not many studies have been done in Peninsular Malaysia and no information particularly in lowland forest. The purpose of this study was to characterize the plant communities where two sites were chosen, Pasoh Forest Reserve (PFR) which includes two logged-o...

Abstract A study was conducted in Thuma area central Malawi to quantify contemporary land cover and explore the degree of use change forest reserve by analysing comparing satellite-derived maps from 1997, 2007 2017. The carried out using Remote Sensing Geographic Information System (GIS), focusing on analysis Landsat 5 ETM 8 ORI/TIRS satellite images. classification for following distinct class...

Habitat loss and landscape fragmentation are often associated with changes in biological communities at different spatial scales. Our goal in this study was to identify fragment characteristics and environmental variables linked to palm species richness, abundance and community similarity at local and landscape spatial scales and to contrast these patterns between adults and juveniles. We sampl...