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New opportunities for small-scale farmers of the Amazon to strengthen hazards resilience while preserving forests - Field experiments combined with agent-based modelling.

Published online: 18 Mar 2015

Authors: Piketty, M. G. & Sist, P.

Content type: Bulletin article

This paper introduces a simulation model focused on smallholder practices and labour management that is used to assess the long-term impacts of altern...

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Small, but many, is big: challenges in assessing the collective scale of locally controlled forest-linked production and investment.

Published online: 31 Aug 2016

Authors: Mayers, J. & Buckley, L. & Macqueen, D.

Content type: Miscellaneous

Small and locally controlled forest-linked investments are crucial to development and environmental protection. Patchy and anecdotal evidence suggests...

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Climate change for forest policy-makers: an approach for integrating climate change into national forest policy in support of sustainable forest management, version 2.0.

Published online: 26 Jun 2019

Content type: Bulletin

The paper is based on a governance framework that recognizes eight essential elements of forest governance. These elements, which include stakeholder ...

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Under the canopy: gender and forests in Amazonia.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: Schmink, M. & Gómez-García, M. A.

Content type: Bulletin

Despite the importance of forests for global processes and the tradition of forest management by local Amazonian peoples, there is not much available ...

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Futures of tropical production forests.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: Putz, F. E. & Romero, C.

Content type: Bulletin

Forests are landscape-embedded complex systems with fates determined by multitudes of changing and interacting factors that are sectoral and extra-sec...

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Predicting tropical forest stand structure parameters from Fourier transform of very high-resolution remotely sensed canopy images.

Published online: 04 Jan 2006

Authors: Couteron, P. & Pelissier, R. & Nicolini, E. A. & Paget, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Predicting stand structure parameters for tropical forests from remotely sensed data has numerous important applications, such as estimating above-gro...

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Modelling the choice between and the costs of multiple-use vs. specialized forest management.

Published online: 10 May 2017

Authors: Garcia, S. & Petucco, C. & Thorsen, B. J. & Vedel, S. E.

Content type: Bulletin

Forests provide ecosystem services jointly with timber production. In some cases, private forest owners implement management actions in order to enhan...

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A monitoring network to detect the impact of climate change on tree biodiversity and carbon in Amazonian floodplain forests.

Published online: 21 Feb 2018

Authors: Honorio Coronado, E. N. & Draper, F. C.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

This paper addresses the following questions: (1) how do tree diversity and floristic composition vary in the floodplain forests?; (2) how much carbon...

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18th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 2-5 March 2015.

Published online: 24 Feb 2016

Authors: Schweitzer, C. J. & Clatterbuck, W. K. & Oswalt, C. M.

Content type: Bulletin; Conference proceedings

This proceedings contain a range of topics germane to the ecology and management of southern forests, addressed in 101 oral and 61 poster presentation...

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Environmental reserve quotas in Brazil's new forest legislation: an ex ante appraisal.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: May, P. H. & Bernasconi, P. & Wunder, S. & Lubowski, R.

Content type: Bulletin

The Brazilian Forest Code (FC) requires all private rural properties to maintain a fixed proportion of their area in natural vegetation as a legal res...

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