As a reaction to the continued dwindling of tropical forest resources, many research and
development organizations have turned to the idea of natural forest management in the …

Global palm oil production has greatly increased in recent years with the adoption of
renewable energy policies by the EU and USA and growing demand for its use in food …

Logged and structurally degraded tropical forests are fast becoming one of the most
prevalent land-use types throughout the tropics and are routinely assumed to be a net …

Southeast Asia experiences one of the highest rates of deforestation in the tropics due to
agricultural expansion, logging, habitat fragmentation and urbanization, which are expected …

Global concern over rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide is stimulating
development and implementation of policies aimed at reducing net greenhouse gas …

Summary 1 We reviewed the use of dung beetles as indicators of environmental change,
highlighting the influence of natural forest dynamics on species distributions in primary forest …

We studied the influence of anthropogenic disturbance on forest structure and composition
in the highly populated Montane Rain Forests of northern Chiapas, Mexico. We evaluated …

The effects of commercial logging on tree diversity in tropical rainforest are largely unknown.
In this study, selectively logged tropical rainforest in Indonesian Borneo is shown to contain …

This book presents a technical review of ecological and life history information on a range of
Bornean wildlife species, aimed at identifying what makes these species sensitive to timber …

Tropical deforestation is well known to have serious negative consequences for biodiversity,
terrestrial carbon sinks and the balance of atmospheric greenhouse gases. By contrast …