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Mapping Woodland Cover in the Miombo Ecosystem: A Comparison of Machine Learning Classifiers

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Peer-reviewed publication
июня, 2014
Zimbabwe

Miombo woodlands in Southern Africa are experiencing accelerated changes due to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In order to formulate sustainable woodland management strategies in the Miombo ecosystem, timely and up-to-date land cover information is required. Recent advances in remote sensing technology have improved land cover mapping in tropical evergreen ecosystems.

Forest Transitions and Rural Livelihoods: Multiple Pathways of Smallholder Teak Expansion in Northern Laos

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Peer-reviewed publication
июня, 2014

Smallholder teak (Tectona grandis) plantations have been identified as a potentially valuable component of upland farming systems in northern Laos that can contribute to a “livelihood transition” from subsistence-oriented swidden agriculture to a more commercially-oriented farming system, thereby bringing about a “forest transition” at the landscape scale.

Improving Grassroots Equity in Forests and Climate Change Context: A Training Manual

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Training Resources & Tools
июня, 2014
Global
South-Eastern Asia

The training manual on improving grassroots equity in the forests and climate change context, aims to develop the knowledge and capacity needed among grassroots facilitators to implement genuinely participatory processes for improving grassroots equity in forest-based climate change policy frameworks, mechanisms and initiatives.

Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo

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Peer-reviewed publication
июня, 2014
Brunei Darussalam
Malaysia

The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale extractive industries began in the early 1970s. There is no island-wide documentation of forest clearance or logging since the 1970s.

Effects of surrounding stands and forest site productivity on the composition and size of understory trees in sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) plantations

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Journal Articles & Books
июня, 2014

The effects of the surrounding stand type and forest site productivity on the composition and size of understory trees were examined in middle-aged Cryptomeria japonica plantations. A negative correlation was found between the stem density of hardwood colonized and the site index as an indicator of forest site productivity.