Sacred forest groves in the Western Ghats of India are small fragments of tropical forest that have received protection due to religious beliefs and cultural practices. These forest fragments are an example of community-based conservation and they serve as refugia for many forest-dwelling species in otherwise highly anthropogenic tropical forest-agriculture landscapes of the Indian Western Ghat...

Enhanced network services often involve preferential allocation of resources such as transmission capacity (“bandwidth”) and buffer space to packets belonging to certain flows or traffic classes. Such services are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks if access to those resources is granted based on information that can be forged, such as source and destination addresses and port numbers. Tra...

I examined the lingering effects of past timber management practices on the vegetation structure and bird community of Kibale National Park, Uganda. I compared four forest treatments: unlogged native forest (UL), two that were selectively logged at low (LL) and high (HL) intensities in the 1960s, and a conifer plantation (PL). Forest-dependent birds were best represented at UL. LL was similar t...

Traditionally Land Use Cover Change (LUCC) studies have focused on processes of negative land-cover change, primarily deforestation, partially because examples of positive land-cover change were not common. During the last two decades an outstanding tropical dry forest restoration process had taken place in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, which has given us a unique opportunity to study...

Forest landscape models are effective tools for exploring the effects of long-term and large-scale landscape processes such as seed dispersal, fire, and timber harvest. These models have been widely used for about a decade, and although significant advances in theory and technology have been incorporated into their development, evaluating the veracity of simulated results from forest landscape ...

This work was presented at the 12th North American Forest Soils Conference, Whitefish, MT, 16–20 June 2013, in the Forest Change Dynamics and Climate Change session. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 78:S84–S94 doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.11.0463nafsc Received 1 Nov. 2013. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No...

Forest fragmentation results in population declines and extinctions for many forest vertebrates, but little is known about the mechanisms causing declines in fragments. We investigated potential causes of declines in forest fragments for an Amazonian forest frog (Colostethus stepheni) at an experimental fragmentation study site in central Amazonian Brazil using field estimates of abundance and ...

— This paper presents an empirical analysis that addresses recent work seeking ‘‘win– win–win’’ scenarios for economic development, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. I focus on arguments for ‘‘productive conservation’’ in forest frontier regions, namely raising rural incomes while conserving the forest resource base. The analysis examines the impacts of agricultural product an...

This paper deals with optimal forest rotation age and silvicultural investment under policy or regulatory uncertainty to which wasteful deforestation and lack of reforestation and afforestation efforts in the developing countries and loss of old growth forests and biodiversity in the developed countries are attributed. Incorporating a stochastic uncertainty factor into the familiar deterministi...