Overview
- Editors:
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Kanehiro Kitayama
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, School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Thorough descriptions of biological communities in a tropical forest after logging
- A wide array of ecological approaches including ground, airborne, satellite, and modeling
- Provides support material for the ecological legitimacy of Forest Stewardship Council certification
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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- Robert C. Ong, Andreas Langner, Nobuo Imai, Kanehiro Kitayama
Pages 1-21
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- Andreas Langner, Jupiri Titin, Kanehiro Kitayama
Pages 23-40
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- Nobuo Imai, Tatsuyuki Seino, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, Masaaki Takyu, Jupiri Titin, Kanehiro Kitayama
Pages 41-61
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- Motohiro Hasegawa, Arthur Y. C. Chung, Tomohiro Yoshida, Tsutomu Hattori, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Masamichi T. Ito et al.
Pages 63-87
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- Hiromitsu Samejima, Peter Lagan, Kanehiro Kitayama
Pages 89-111
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- Masaaki Takyu, Hisashi Matsubayashi, Nobuhiko Wakamatsu, Etsuko Nakazono, Peter Lagan, Kanehiro Kitayama
Pages 113-128
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- Nobuo Imai, Jupiri Titin, Satoshi Kita, Robert C. Ong, Kanehiro Kitayama
Pages 129-148
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- Kanehiro Kitayama, Robert C. Ong, Ying Fah Lee
Pages 149-157
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Back Matter
Pages 159-161
About this book
Tropical rain forests are increasingly expected to serve for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation amid global climate change and increasing human demands for land. Natural production forests that are legally designated to produce timber occur widely in the Southeast Asian tropics. Synergizing timber production, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in such tropical production forests is one of the most realistic means to resolve these contemporary global problems. Next-generation sustainable forest management is being practiced in the natural tropical rain forest of a model site in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, while earlier sustainable management practices have generally failed, leading to extensive deforestation and forest degradation elsewhere in the tropics. Ecologists have examined co-benefits of sustainable forestry in the model forest in terms of forest regeneration, carbon sequestration and biodiversity in comparison to a forest managed by destructive conventional methods. Taxonomic groups studied have included trees, decomposers, soil microbes, insects and mammals. A wide array of field methods and technology has been used including count plots, sensor cameras, and satellite remote-sensing. This book is a compilation of the results of those thorough ecological investigations and elucidates ecological processes of tropical rain forests after logging. The book furnishes useful information for foresters and conservation NGOs, and it also provides baseline information for biologists and ecologists. A further aim is to examine the environmental effects of a forest certification scheme as the model forest has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Taken as a whole, this book proves that the desired synergy is possible.
Editors and Affiliations
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, School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Kanehiro Kitayama
About the editor
Kanehiro Kitayama, Professor of Forest Ecology, School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Ph.D. in Botanical Sciences, University of Hawaii), authors of 75 peer-reviewed original papers.
