Dutch ecologist Marijke van Kuijk has studied the regeneration of the tropical forest in Vietnam. Abandoned agricultural land does regenerate to tropical forest, but only slowly. Two procedures are ...
... would translate into land rental prices in tropical regions. Carbon at $2 per ton ... source of biodiversity by retaining a larger stock of tropical forest, keep carbon out of the atmosphere, and provide ...
... even the smallest governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to map tropical forests from their desktops. The technology will rapidly advance deforestation and degradation mapping in Latin ...
... over the northeast flank of the Mauna Kea Volcano and the Hawaii Experimental Tropical Forest, which the National Science Foundation has designated a National Ecological Observatory Network candidate ...
... in soil, awaiting favorable conditions for germination) is short, lasting only for a few years at most.
But in the tropical forests of Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama, Brown and Dalling found ...
Seeds of some tree species in the Panamanian tropical forest can survive for more than 30 years before germinating. That is 10 times longer than most field botanists had believed. When disturbance ...
An international group have developed a new way to reap social and environmental benefits from tropical forests worldwide.
... shift to low-carbon forests and other ecosystems important for biodiversity.
Dr Lera Miles, lead ... conservation investment is focused on species-rich tropical forests. A successful REDD mechanism would ...
... of policies designed to foster forestry activities. "With political will and the involvement of tropical regions, forests can contribute to both climate change protection through carbon sequestration ...
... of nitrogen fixation in temperate forests, despite low-nitrogen soils.
In tropical forests, it's the link between nitrogen and phosphorus that explains the abundance of nitrogen-fixing species.
" ...
... Professor Corey Bradshaw, from the University of Adelaide's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, says tropical forests support more than 60% of all known species. But up to 15 million hectares ...
... can lead us to plants with disease-fighting properties."
This work also demonstrates that protecting tropical forests¯not just the insects and plants, but at every level—has the potential to provide ...
... climate. But efforts in the tropics to significantly expand biofuel production by replacing tropical forests with oil palm, sugarcane and other agricultural biofuels could, in fact, accelerate climate ...
... , communities, and governments need to be sorted out, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from tropical forest degradation should be given a high priority in negotiations leading up to the new ...
... suggests. It would take about that much money to put an end to a tenth of the tropical deforestation in the world, one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, researchers estimate.
