Focusing primarily on Europe, Africa, Australia, and SE Asia, 89 contributors discuss regional programs, global networks, and methodologies using permanent sample plots for monitoring forest ecosystems. Following introductory chapters establishing a theoretical framework for such assessment for adaptive management, applications of plot-based results are detailed: e.g. analyzing global trends in tree mortality, climactic change, seed dispersal patterns; and employing satellite imagery to map forests. Based on papers presented at the first international symposium on measuring and monitoring biodiversity held in Washington, DC in May 1995, organized by the Smithsonian Institution/UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
The first of two volumes documenting the latest findings on forest biodiversity, this book presents original, new contributions by some three hundred scientists from over forty countries. Researchers from the massive Smithsonian/MAB Biological Diversity Program cover the feasibility of using long-term inventory plots as a framework for monitoring multi-layer vegetation, socioeconomic applications of research results, and promotion of multidisciplinary research and training. The book is in five main sections covering first the methodology for forest monitoring and modeling and then the results of research from Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia/Pacific.
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"The publication of this book is timely in that it adds substantially to the existing knowledge on biodiversity and addresses important subject areas that require additional research" -- Agroforestry Sytems, 1998
PREFACE xi(4) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv(2) CONTRIBUTORS xvii Section I Forest monitoring framework 3(44)
1. FOREST BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION FOR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT 3(14) Francisco Dallmeier James A. Comiskey
2. THE MAINTENANCE OF DIVERSITY IN A NEOTROPICAL TREE COMMUNITY: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES, CURRENT EVIDENCE, AND CHALLENGES AHEAD 17(30) Stephen P. Hubbell Section II Monitoring and modeling forest biodiversity 47(310)
3. A GLOBAL NETWORK OF PLOTS FOR UNDERSTANDING TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FORESTS 47(16) Peter S. Ashton
4. SIGNAL AND NOISE IN SAMPLING TROPICAL FOREST STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS 63(16) Pamela Hall Peter S. Ashton Richard Condit N. Manokaran Stephen P. Hubbell
5. PLOTS, PIXELS, AND PARTNERSHIPS: PROSPECTS FOR MAPPING, MONITORING, AND MODELING BIODIVERSITY 79(22) H. Gyde Lund Victor A. Rudis Kenneth W. Stolte
6. COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, PLANT DIVERSITY AND MICROCLIMATE OF BOREAL FOREST TYPES IN THE RUSSIAN URAL 101(8) Gennady I. Belchansky Varos G. Petrosyan David C. Douglas
7. MONITORING DIVERSITY OVER TIME USING A FOREST GROWTH MODEL BASED ON ECOLOGICAL LAND CLASSIFICATIONS 109(18) Dale S. Solomon Jeffrey H. Gove
8. SPATIAL REPRESENTATION, BIODIVERSITY, AND FRAGMENTATION OF VEGETATION COMMUNITIES OF THE CENTRAL HIGH LLANOS OF VENEZUELA 127(14) Jose L. Berroteran
9. THE ROLE OF DATA FROM INTENSIVE SAMPLE PLOTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW METHOD FOR MAPPING TROPICAL FOREST TYPES USING SATELLITE IMAGERY 141(18) France Gerard Barry Wyatt Andrew Millington Jane Wellens
10. MAPPING THE TROPICAL LANDSCAPES OF BENI (BOLIVIA) FROM LANDSAT-TM IMAGERY: BEYOND THE `FOREST/NON FOREST LEGEND 159(24) Agustin Lobo Raymond E. Gullison
11. THE DESIGN OF PROGRAMS TO MONITOR FOREST BIODIVERSITY: LESSONS FROM THE WOG WOG HABITAT FRAGMENTATION EXPERIMENT 183(14) C.R. Margules M.P. Austin K.F. Davies J.A. Meyers A.O. Nicholls
12. LARGE-SCALE PATTERNS OF SEED DISPERSAL 197(24) Shahroukh Mistry
13. INCREASING TREE TURNOVER IN TROPICAL FORESTS AS MEASURED IN PERMANENT PLOTS 221(26) Oliver L. Phillips
14. ASSESSING FOREST DIVERSITY ON SMALL PLOTS: CALIBRATION USING SPECIES-INDIVIDUAL CURVES FROM 50-HA PLOTS 247(22) Richard Condit Robin B. Foster Stephen P. Hubbell R. Sukumar Egbert G. Leigh N. Manokaran Suzanne Loo de Lao James V. LaFrankie Peter S. Ashton
15. FIELD COMPARISONS OF TWO RAPID VEGETATION ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES WITH PERMANENT PLOT INVENTORY DATA IN AMAZONIAN PERU 269(16) Margaret J. Stern
16. STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS OF WOODY REGENERATION IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RAIN FORESTS OF NORTHEASTERN COSTA RICA 285(26) Robin L. Chazdon Robert K. Colwell Julie S. Denslow Manuel R. Guariguata
17. SHE ANALYSIS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF FOREST BIODIVERSITY 311(12) Lee-Ann C. Hayek Martin A. Buzas
18. STATISTICAL POWER FOR EVALUATING ECOLOGICAL MONITORING METHODS AND ANALYSIS 323(12) Clifford G. Rice Stephen Demarais Richard W. Hansen
19. WATERSHED RESEARCH PROGRAMS: OPPORTUNITIES FOR LONG-TERM BIODIVERSITY MONITORING AND RESEARCH 335(22) Charles W. Slaughter Kenneth E. Spaeth Leslie A. Viereck Clayton L. Hanson Section III Europe 357(42)
20. ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING FOR FOREST BIODIVERSITY: A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE 357(8) Michael Kohl Janne Uuttera Peter Bachmann Risto Paivinen
21. ECOLOGICAL MONITORING IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA: BIOSPHERE RESERVE INTEGRATED MONITORING PROGRAMME (BRIM) 365(6) Jurgen Nauber
22. ASSESSMENT OF BIODIVERSITY IN ECOSYSTEM MONITORING PLOTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SWITZERLAND 371(28) John L. Innes Walter Keller Ruedi Boesch Section IV Africa and Australia 399(96)
23. A HALF-CENTURY OF PERMANENT PLOT OBSERVATION IN BUDONGO FOREST, UGANDA: HISTORIES, HIGHLIGHTS, AND HYPOTHESES 399(30) Douglas Sheil
24. FOREST STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY OF LIANAS AND UNDERSTORY TREELETS IN MONODOMINANT AND MIXED STANDS IN THE ITURI FOREST, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 429(18) Jean-Remy Makana Terese B. Hart John A. Hart
25. LONG-TERM MONITORING PLOTS SHOW TRENDS IN THE COMPOSITION, GROWTH, AND MORTALITY OF MIXED EVERGREEN FOREST IN SOUTH AFRICA 447(22) Coert J. Geldenhuys
26. ESTABLISHMENT OF LONG-TERM BIODIVERSITY MONITORING SITES IN AUSTRALIAN FORESTS 469(12) Michael J. Brown
27. FLORISTIC MONITORING IN THE COOL TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST BIOME 481(14) Michael J. Brown Paul B. Alaback Thomas T. Veblen Section V Asia/Pacific 495(154)
28. DYNAMICS OF A TROPICAL DECIDUOUS FOREST: POPULATION CHANGES (1988 THROUGH 1993) IN A 50-HA PLOT AT MUDUMALAI, SOUTHERN INDIA 495(12) R. Sukumar H.S. Suresh H.S. Dattaraja N.V. Joshi
29. FLORISTIC COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, DIVERSITY, AND DYNAMICS OF TWO EVERGREEN FOREST PLOTS IN KARNATAKA STATE, INDIA 507(14) Jean-Pierre Pascal R. Pelissier M.E. Loffeier B.R. Ramesh
30. STUDY OF TROPICAL FOREST CANOPY HEIGHT AND COVER USING A POINT-INTERCEPT METHOD 521(12) Warren Y. Brockelman
31. STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION, AND DYNAMICS OF AN EVERGREEN BROADLEAF FOREST IN DINGHUSHAN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, CHINA 533(18) Kong Guo-Hui Francisco Dallmeier James A. Comiskey Huang Zhong Liang Wei Ping Mo Jiang Ming He Dao Quan Zhang Qiang Mei Wang Yu Jia
32. STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF TROPICAL MOUNTAIN RAIN FOREST AT THE JIANFENGLING NATURAL RESERVE, HAINAN ISLAND, P.R. CHINA 551(12) Li Yide James A. Comiskey Francisco Dallmeier
33. STRUCTURE AND SPECIES COMPOSITION OF A SUB-TROPICAL RAIN FOREST IN SOUTHERN TAIWAN ON A WIND-STREES GRADIENT 563(28) I-Fang Sun Chang-Fu Hsieh Stephen P. Hubbell
34. COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND SPECIES RICHNESS OF A SUBMONTANE MOIST FOREST ON Mt KINASALAPI, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES 591(10) John J. Pipoly III Domingo A. Madulid
35. COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND CHANGES IN A MONTANE RAIN FOREST AT THE CIBODAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA 601(12) Rochadi Abdulhadi Agoes Srijanto Kuswata Kartawinata
36. RICHNESS, TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION, AND SPECIES PATCHINESS IN THREE LOWLAND FOREST PLOTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA 613(20) Michael Oatham Bruce M. Beehler
37. A THIRTY-YEAR RECORD OF FOREST DYNAMICS FROM KOLOMBANGARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS 633(16) David F.R.P. Burslem Timothy C. Whitmore Nixon Denmark Conclusion 649(8)
38. OUTLOOK ON FOREST BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH, MONITORING AND MODELING FRAMEWORK 649(8) Francisco Dallmeier James A. Comiskey INDEX 657
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