Department of Biology, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, N-9269 Tromsø, Norway, Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany, Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, N-1432 Ås, Norway, Telemark University College, 3800 Bø, Norway, WSL Institute for S...

II. Testing in a ringand diffuse-porous species Erica I. von Allmen, John S. Sperry*, Duncan D. Smith, Van M. Savage, Brian J. Enquist, Peter B. Reich and Lisa P. Bentley Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112 USA; Department of Biomathematics, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, ...

a Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 It'enhua Road, Shenyang, 110015 China School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, 203M ABNR Building, Columbia, MO 65211 USA " Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 USA R' '-' $a Received 3 September 1999; received in revised form 29 Septem...

Department of Special Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 East Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, VU University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Biodiversity Researc...

I present a brief synopsis of six key lessons provided by research on forest ecology and conservation, focusing particularly on the Malaysian state of Sabah in northeastern Borneo. These lessons are generalizable to other contexts, especially for tropical developing nations, where surviving forests are under growing pressures from a range of human activities.

1Centre for Applied Ecology, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal *([email protected]); 2Centre for Forest Research, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda;3WWF-Mediterranean Program, Rome, Italy; 4Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France, and Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO; 5Centro de Investigación sobre Desertificac...

Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden Woods and Wayside International, Princeton, NJ, USA Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia d Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Kibale, Uganda e Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Yaounde, Cameroon f Technical Training and Research Centre for Development...

Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA, Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA, Department of E...

"Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands #Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA $Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2082 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA %Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA ...

L. Bergès (Corresponding author) • C. Avon Irstea, UR EMAX, CS 40061, 13182 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 5, France e-mail: [email protected] phone: +33442669906/fax: +33442669923 V. Pellissier UMR 7204 CERSP, MNHM/CNRS/UPMC, 61 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris K. Verheyen Ghent University, Laboratory of Forestry, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 MelleGontrode, Belgium J.L. Dupouey INRA-Nancy University,...