Co-benefits of Sustainable Forestry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Management History of the Study Sites: The Deramakot and Tangkulap Forest Reserves

   • Robert C. Ong, Andreas Langner, Nobuo Imai, Kanehiro Kitayama

   Pages 1-21

3. The Application of Satellite Remote Sensing for Classifying Forest Degradation and Deriving Above-Ground Biomass Estimates

   • Andreas Langner, Jupiri Titin, Kanehiro Kitayama

   Pages 23-40

4. Management Effects on Tree Species Diversity and Dipterocarp Regeneration

   • Nobuo Imai, Tatsuyuki Seino, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, Masaaki Takyu, Jupiri Titin, Kanehiro Kitayama

   Pages 41-61

5. Effects of Reduced-Impact Logging on Decomposers in the Deramakot Forest Reserve

   • Motohiro Hasegawa, Arthur Y. C. Chung, Tomohiro Yoshida, Tsutomu Hattori, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Masamichi T. Ito et al.

   Pages 63-87

6. Impacts of Two Different Forest Management Practices on the Abundance of Mammals

   • Hiromitsu Samejima, Peter Lagan, Kanehiro Kitayama

   Pages 89-111

7. Guidelines for Establishing Conservation Areas in Sustainable Forest Management: Developing Models to Understand Habitat Suitability for Orangutans

   • Masaaki Takyu, Hisashi Matsubayashi, Nobuhiko Wakamatsu, Etsuko Nakazono, Peter Lagan, Kanehiro Kitayama

   Pages 113-128

8. Co-benefits of Sustainable Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration

   • Nobuo Imai, Jupiri Titin, Satoshi Kita, Robert C. Ong, Kanehiro Kitayama

   Pages 129-148

9. Synthesis: Co-benefits of Sustainable Production Forestry

   • Kanehiro Kitayama, Robert C. Ong, Ying Fah Lee

   Pages 149-157

10. Back Matter

    Pages 159-161

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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.

• Biodiversity
• Conservation
• Forest Management
• Reserves
• Sustainable
• Forestry Management

• , School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  Kanehiro Kitayama

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.

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