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A Modest Proposal for Wealthy Countries to Reforest Their Land for the Common Good

A More Realistic Portrayal of Tropical Forestry: Response to Kormos and Zimmerman

scholarly article by Francis E. Putz et al published 11 July 2013 in Conservation Letters

A Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Preferences, and Values into Decision Making in Natural Resources Management

article

A booming trade? How collection of war residues affects livelihoods and forest in Vietnam

scholarly article by M. Boissiere et al published 1 December 2011 in International Forestry Review

A camera trap assessment of terrestrial vertebrates in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

scholarly article by Badru Mugerwa et al published 25 August 2012 in African Journal of Ecology

A critique of permanent plot methods and analysis with examples from Budongo Forest, Uganda

article

A first look at the impediments to forest recovery in bracken-dominated clearings in the African Highlands

article published in 2017

A logged forest in Borneo is better than none at all

scientific article published in Nature

A preliminary assessment of large mammal and bird use of different habitats in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

article

A standardized assessment of forest mammal communities reveals consistent functional composition and vulnerability across the tropics

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Accessing local knowledge to identify where species of conservation concern occur in a tropical forest landscape

scientific article

African Golden Cats, Citizen Science, and Serendipity: Tapping the Camera Trap Revolution

An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?

scientific article published on 2 April 2020

An encounter with an African golden cat Caracal aurata: one of the World’s least known felids

article by Douglas Sheil published 11 January 2011 in African Journal of Ecology

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

An extreme-value approach to detect clumping and an application to tropical forest gap-mosaic dynamics

article

Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

Bamboo for people, Mountain gorillas, and golden monkeys: Evaluating harvest and conservation trade-offs and synergies in the Virunga Volcanoes

scientific article published in 2012

Bell miner associated dieback: nutrient cycling and herbivore crown damage in Eucalyptus propinqua

scientific article

Better estimates of soil carbon from geographical data: a revised global approach

article

Biological control of an agricultural pest protects tropical forests

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Biological control protects tropical forests

Book review

Call of the wild: define it or lose it

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Can engaging local people’s interests reduce forest degradation in Central Vietnam?

scholarly article by M. Boissière et al published 10 April 2009 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Carbon isotopic signatures of soil organic matter correlate with leaf area index across woody biomes

article

Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals

article published in 2009

Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

scientific article published in 2014

Charisma counts: the presence of great apes affects the allocation of research effort in the paleotropics

article published in 2016

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Comments on “The Tropospheric Land–Sea Warming Contrast as the Driver of Tropical Sea Level Pressure Changes”

article

Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network

scientific article (publication date: 27 September 2011)

Comparing seed removal rates in actively and passively restored tropical moist forests

scientific article published in 2017

Compatibility of timber and non-timber forest product management in natural tropical forests: Perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

article

Complex contexts and dynamic drivers: Understanding four decades of forest loss and recovery in an East African protected area

article by Marieke Sassen et al published March 2013 in Biological Conservation

Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring in the Tropics: Realities, Priorities, and Distractions

scholarly article published in 2001

Conservation in a Wicked Complex World; Challenges and Solutions

Conservation: focus on implementation

scientific article

Conserving What and for Whom? Why Conservation Should Help Meet Basic Human Needs in the Tropics

article by David Kaimowitz & Douglas Sheil published September 2007 in Biotropica

Consistent diel activity patterns of forest mammals among tropical regions

scientific article published on 19 November 2022

Convergence of bark investment according to fire and climate structures ecosystem vulnerability to future change

article

Cuddly animals don't persuade poor people to back conservation

scientific article published in July 2008

Defining and defending Connell's intermediate disturbance hypothesis: a response to Fox ⬇️

scientific article published on August 14, 2013

Definition and estimation of vital rates from repeated censuses: Choices, comparisons and bias corrections focusing on trees

article

Developing a Predictive Understanding of Landscape Importance to the Punan-Pelancau of East Kalimantan, Borneo

article

Developing tests of successional hypotheses with size-structured populations, and an assessment using long-term data from a Ugandan rain forest

scientific article published in 1999

Distributional shifts in a biodiversity hotspot

Disturbance and distributions: avoiding exclusion in a warming world

scientific article published in 2016

Disturbance and the elevation ranges of woody plant species in the mountains of Costa Rica

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Disturbing hypotheses in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2003

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome ⬇️

scientific article

Diversity of locally useful tropical forest wild-plants as a function of species richness and informant culture

article

Do Anthropogenic Dark Earths Occur in the Interior of Borneo? Some Initial Observations from East Kalimantan

article

Does biomass growth increase in the largest trees? Flaws, fallacies and alternative analyses

scientific article published in 2016

Drought, fire and tree survival in a Borneo rain forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

scholarly article by MARK G. L. VAN NIEUWSTADT & Douglas Sheil published February 2005 in Journal of Ecology

Ecological Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Forest Landscapes: Challenges in the Search for Progress

article

Environmental correlates for tropical tree diversity and distribution patterns in Borneo

scientific article published in 2009

Environmental correlates of tree biomass, basal area, wood specific gravity and stem density gradients in Borneo's tropical forests

article

Erratum to: Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management

scholarly article published in Environmental Management

Estimates of soil carbon concentration in tropical and temperate forest and woodland from available GIS data on three continents

article

Estimating net biomass production and loss from repeated measurements of trees in forests and woodlands: Formulae, biases and recommendations

article

Evaluating the success of conservation actions in safeguarding tropical forest biodiversity.

scientific article

Evaluating turnover in tropical forests.

scientific article

Exploring Local Perspectives for Conservation Planning: A Case Study from a Remote Forest Community in Indonesian Papua

Falling back on forests: how forest-dwelling people cope with catastrophe in a changing landscape

Finding and promoting a local conservation consensus in a globally important tropical forest landscape

Forest Tree Persistence, Elephants, and Stem Scars

Forest loss and Borneo’s climate

Forests, atmospheric water and an uncertain future: the new biology of the global water cycle

article by Douglas Sheil published 20 March 2018 in Forest Ecosystems

Four decades of forest persistence, clearance and logging on Borneo.

scientific article

Four new Arthoniomycetes from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda – supported by molecular data

scholarly article by Andreas Frisch et al published 1 May 2014 in Nova Hedwigia

Fuel for cyclones: The water vapor budget of a hurricane as dependent on its movement

Fuelwood collection and its impacts on a protected tropical mountain forest in Uganda

scholarly article by Marieke Sassen et al published October 2015 in Forest Ecology and Management

Further Notes on Species Richness, Tropical Forest Dynamics and Sampling: A Reply to Phillips et al

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Fusing radar and optical remote sensing for biomass prediction in mountainous tropical forests

Glasgow forest declaration needs new modes of data ownership

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Global disparity of camera trap research allocation and defaunation risk of terrestrial mammals

scientific article published on 17 August 2023

Global patterns of terrestrial assemblage turnover within and among land uses

scientific article published in 2016

Growth assessment in tropical trees: large daily diameter fluctuations and their concealment by dendrometer bands

article by Douglas Sheil published October 2003 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

scientific article published on 25 August 2021

How Forests Attract Rain: An Examination of a New Hypothesis

article by Douglas Sheil & Daniel Murdiyarso published April 2009 in BioScience

How are soil carbon and tropical biodiversity related?

How does conversion of natural tropical rainforest ecosystems affect soil bacterial and fungal communities in the Nile river watershed of Uganda?

scientific article

How plants water our planet: advances and imperatives

scientific article

How selective are elephants as agents of forest tree damage in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda?

scholarly article by Fredrick Ssali et al published 7 September 2012 in African Journal of Ecology

Human density modulates spatial associations among tropical forest terrestrial mammal species

scientific article published on 29 September 2022

Human impacts on forest structure and species richness on the edges of a protected mountain forest in Uganda

article

Illumination-size relationships of 109 coexisting tropical forest tree species

article

Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention

scientific article

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

scientific article published on February 2009

Innocent invaders? A preliminary assessment of Cecropia, an American tree, in Java

scientific article published in 2011

Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics.

scientific article

Interpreting forest diversity-productivity relationships: volume values, disturbance histories and alternative inferences

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea

scientific article published in 2011

Is wildlife research useful for wildlife conservation in the tropics? A review for Borneo with global implications

article

Kinetic energy generation in heat engines and heat pumps: the relationship between surface pressure, temperature and circulation cell size

scholarly article by A.M. Makarieva et al published January 2017 in Tellus A

Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

article

Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds

scientific article

Local Perceptions of Climate Variability and Change in Tropical Forests of Papua, Indonesia

scholarly article by Manuel Boissière et al published 2013 in Ecology and Society

Local people may be the best allies in conservation

scientific article published in Nature

Local temperature and ecological similarity drive distributional dynamics of tropical mammals worldwide

scientific article published in 2019

Logging scars in Ghanaian high forest: Towards improved models for sustainable production

article

Long-term observations of rain forest succession, tree diversity and responses to disturbance.

scientific article published in 2001

Long-term permanent plot observations of vegetation dynamics in Budongo, a Ugandan rain forest

article

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

scientific article

Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires

scientific article

Mass Fruiting in Borneo: A Missed Opportunity

scientific article published in Science

Matrix population models indicate that bark harvest of two medicinal plants in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is sustainable

article

Maximum size distributions in tropical forest communities: relationships with rainfall and disturbance

article

Microwave pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass––a contribution to power Africa

article

Mortality and Recruitment Rate Evaluations in Heterogeneous Tropical Forests

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Motivation Matters: Lessons for REDD+ Participatory Measurement, Reporting and Verification from Three Decades of Child Health Participatory Monitoring in Indonesia

scientific article

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

Naturalized and invasive plant species in the evergreen forests of the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

article

Observations on Southern White Rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum Translocated to Uganda

scholarly article by Douglas Sheil & Andrew E. Kirkby published January 2018 in Tropical conservation science

Occurrence dynamics of mammals in protected tropical forests respond to human presence and activities

scientific article published in 2023

Of Cecropias, Snarks and Boojums

scientific article published in 2011

Oil-Palm Plantations in the Context of Biodiversity Conservation

On taxing wildlife films and exposure to nature

Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene.

scientific article

Partnerships for tropical conservation

Phylogenetic Age is Positively Correlated with Sensitivity to Timber Harvest in Bornean Mammals

scholarly article by Erik Meijaard et al published 18 July 2007 in Biotropica

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity ⬇️

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Plant functional types and traits as biodiversity indicators for tropical forests: two biogeographically separated case studies including birds, mammals and termites

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Predicting alpha diversity of African rain forests: models based on climate and satellite-derived data do not perform better than a purely spatial model

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Pseudoreplication in tropical forests and the resulting effects on biodiversity conservation

scientific article

Purity and Prejudice: Deluding Ourselves About Biodiversity Conservation

Quantifying the global atmospheric power budget

Quantifying the global atmospheric power budget

Quantifying the mitigation of temperature extremes by forests and wetlands in a temperate landscape

scientific article

REDD at the crossroads? The opportunities and challenges of REDD for conservation and human welfare in South West Uganda

scholarly article by Ronald Twongyirwe et al published 2015 in International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development

Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo.

scientific article

Recent loss of closed forests is associated with Ebola virus disease outbreaks.

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Recognizing local people's priorities for tropical forest biodiversity

scientific article published in February 2006

Reconciling forest conservation and logging in Indonesian Borneo

scientific article

Reduced-impact logging in Indonesian Borneo: some results confirming the need for new silvicultural prescriptions

article published in 2003

Restoring the orangutan in a Whole- or Half-Earth context

scientific article published on 13 October 2022

Rise and fall of forest loss and industrial plantations in Borneo (2000-2017)

Scoring the importance of tropical forest landscapes with local people: patterns and insights

scientific article published in July 2006

Seasonality in the equatorial tropics: Flower, fruit, and leaf phenology of montane trees in the highlands of Southwest Uganda

scientific article published in 2023

Seeing the fruit for the trees in Borneo

Sex ratios, damage and distribution of<i>Myrianthus holstii</i>Engl.: a dioecious afromontane forest tree

scientific article published in 2023

Sharing future conservation costs

scientific article

Simulating Oil Palm Expansion Requires Credible Approaches that Address Real Issues

scientific article published in 2008

Soils on exposed Sunda shelf shaped biogeographic patterns in the equatorial forests of Southeast Asia

scientific article

Species Richness, Tropical Forest Dynamics and Sampling: Questioning Cause and Effect

article

Spread of the Invasive Alien Species Piper Aduncum via Logging Roads in Borneo

article

Standardized Assessment of Biodiversity Trends in Tropical Forest Protected Areas: The End Is Not in Sight

scientific article

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

article

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

scientific article

Tangible benefits or token gestures: does Bwindi impenetrable National Park's long established multiple use programme benefit the poor?

Tanzanian coastal forests – unique, threatened, and overlooked

scholarly article by Douglas Sheil published April 1992 in Oryx

Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

scientific article (publication date: 21 May 2013)

Termites and large herbivores influence seed removal rates in an African savanna

scientific article

Termites confer resistance to changes in tree composition following reduced browsing in an African savanna

article

The Ecological Consequences of Logging in the Burned Forests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia

scholarly article by Mark G. L. Van Nieuwstadt et al published 3 August 2001 in Conservation Biology

The Implementation and Sustainability of Village Conservation Agreements Around Kerinci Seblat National Park, Indonesia

scholarly article by Pete Wood et al published 25 April 2014 in Society and Natural Resources

The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Mortality Rate Measures

scientific article published in 1995

The Key Physical Parameters Governing Frictional Dissipation in a Precipitating Atmosphere

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts ⬇️

scientific article

The Value of Tropical Forest to Local Communities: Complications, Caveats, and Cautions

scientific article published in 2002

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

scientific article

The differential effects of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) on germination and seedling performance of tree species in the African tropics

scientific article published in 2018

The dilemma of green business in tropical forests: how to protect what it cannot identify

The equations of motion for moist atmospheric air

scientific article

The evolving role of tropical forests for local livelihoods in Indonesia

scholarly article by Imam Basuki et al published 2011 in International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development

The feasibility of local participation in Measuring, Reporting and Verification (PMRV) for REDD.

scientific article

The forests and related vegetation of Kwerba, on the Foja Foothills, Mamberamo, Papua (Indonesian New Guinea) ⬇️

article by M. van Heist et al published 10 September 2010 in Blumea

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The impacts of selective logging on non-timber forest products of livelihood importance

scientific article published in 2012

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity

scientific article

The lowland forest tree community in Malinau, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo): results from a one-hectare plot

scientific article published in 2010

The moral basis for conservation - reflections on Dickmanet al

article

The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

article

The persistence and conservation of Borneo’s mammals in lowland rain forests managed for timber: observations, overviews and opportunities

article

The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson

The potential for species conservation in tropical secondary forests

scientific article

The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence

scientific article published in 2023

Towards sustainable management of mixed dipterocarp forests of South-east Asia: moving beyond minimum diameter cutting limits

article

Trade‐off between standing biomass and productivity in species‐rich tropical forest: Evidence, explanations and implications

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Tree Species Composition Predicts Epiphytic Lichen Communities in an African Montane Rain Forest

article

Tree seed rain and seed removal, but not the seed bank, impede forest recovery in bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn)-dominated clearings in the African highlands

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world ⬇️

Tropical Alpine Environments: Plant Form and Function

article

Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration

scientific article published on 5 October 2004

Tropical forest diversity, environmental change and species augmentation: After the intermediate disturbance hypothesis

article

Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary

article

Understanding and integrating local perceptions of trees and forests into incentives for sustainable landscape management

scientific article

Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

Unseen sentinels: local monitoring and control in conservation’s blind spots

article

Variability of Soil Organic Carbon stocks under different land uses: A study in an afro-montane landscape in southwestern Uganda

article

Vegetation impact on atmospheric moisture transport under increasing land-ocean temperature contrasts

scientific article published in October 2022

Visual detection based distance sampling offers efficient density estimation for distinctive low abundance tropical forest tree species in complex terrain

article

What scope for certifying forest ecosystem services?

scholarly article by Erik Meijaard et al published March 2014 in Ecosystem services

Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapor condensation influences atmospheric pressure and dynamics

scholarly article published in 2013

Why Does Air Passage over Forest Yield More Rain? Examining the Coupling between Rainfall, Pressure, and Atmospheric Moisture Content*

Wildlife Conservation in Bornean Timber Concessions

article

Wildlife film fees: a reply to Jepson & Jennings

Wood decomposition is more rapid on than off termite mounds in an African savanna

scientific article published in 2019

Wood density as a conservation tool: quantification of disturbance and identification of conservation-priority areas in tropical forests

scientific article

‘Linguistic injustice’ is not black and white

article by Manuel R. Guariguata et al published February 2011 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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