Twenty four permanents sample plots (PSPs), of one ha each have been randomly set up to be a long term monitoring in the hill mixed dipterocarps forest in the Bulungan Research Forest, East Kalimantan. All trees (DBH=20cm) were measured and indentified. In this study area, reduced-impact logging ...
Priyadi, H.
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Kartawinata, K.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Sist, P.
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[Monitoring permanent sample plots (PSPs) after conventional and reduced-impact logging in the Bulungan research forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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Monitoring permanent sample plots (PSPs) after conventional and reduced-impact logging in the Bulungan research forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
This study has two central concerns: the state of human health in forests, and the causal links between forests and human health. Within this framework, we consider four issues related to tropical forests and human health. First, we discuss forest foods, emphasizing the forest as a food-producing...
Sheil, Douglas
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Salim, A.
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Chaves, J.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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Hawthorne, W.
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[Illumination-size relationships of 109 coexsiting tropical forest tree species]
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Illumination-size relationships of 109 coexsiting tropical forest tree species
In order to maintain the high levels of biodiversity and the ecological functions of tropical forest landscapes in South East Asia, production forests need to be managed in a more sustainable way. Numerous initiatives already exist in the form of codes of practice, criteria and indicators, and ce...
Gustafsson, L.
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Nasi, Robert
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Dennis, R.A.
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Nguyen Hoang Nghia
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Sheil, Douglas
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Meijaard, E.
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Dykstra, D.P.
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Priyadi, H.
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Pham Quang Thu
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[Logging for the ark: improving the conservation value of production forests in South East Asia]
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Logging for the ark: improving the conservation value of production forests in South East Asia
It is not simple to predict how environmental changes may impact tropical forest species diversity. Published hypotheses are almost invariably too incomplete, too poorly specified and too dependent upon unrealistic assumptions to be useful. Ecologist have sought theoretical simplicity, and while ...
Sheil, Douglas
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[Tropical forest diversity, environmental change and species augmentation: after the intermediate disturbance hypothesis]
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Tropical forest diversity, environmental change and species augmentation: after the intermediate disturbance hypothesis
In order for local community views to be incorporated into new development initiatives, their perceptions need to be clearly understood and documented in a format that is readily accessible to planners and developers. The current study sought to develop a predictive understanding of how the Punan...
Cunliffe, R.N.
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Lynam, T.J.P.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Wan, M.
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Salim, A.
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Basuki, I.
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Priyadi, H.
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[Developing a predictive understanding of landscape importance to the Punan-Pelancau of East Kalimantan, Borneo]
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Developing a predictive understanding of landscape importance to the Punan-Pelancau of East Kalimantan, Borneo
Monitoring and research activities may hinder rather than improce conservation in tropical countries. This paper identifies some critical threats to biodiversity and the limited resources for defending against them. It suggests various contributory factors, and a few common sense options for impr...
Sheil, Douglas
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[Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction]
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Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction
Results of a 2-year study on post-fire vegetation dynamics in the unlogged dipterocarp rainforest of Sungai Wain near Balikpapan East Kalimantan, Indonesia are discussed. Results showed that the maintenance of a productive permanent forest estate is likely to be served best by avoiding logging ac...
Nieuwstadt, M.G.L. van
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Sheil, Douglas
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Kartawinata, K.
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[The ecological consequences of logging in the burned forests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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The ecological consequences of logging in the burned forests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia
The relationship between succession and tropical forest diversity has been much debated. A fundamental disagreement hinges on whether high local species richness is a transient successional property, albeit one that can be maintained by disturbance, or is rather a property of stable late successi...
Sheil, Douglas
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[Long-term observations of rain forest succession, tree diversity and responses to disturbance]
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Long-term observations of rain forest succession, tree diversity and responses to disturbance
Poorter, L.
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Hawthorne, W.
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Bongers, F.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Maximum size distributions in tropical forest communities: relationships with rainfall and disturbance]
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Maximum size distributions in tropical forest communities: relationships with rainfall and disturbance