Sustainable intensification of dairy production can reduce forest disturbance in Kenyan montane forests

Sustainable intensification of crop production

Relevance Concerns about the environmental impact of farming has increasingly been the focus of discussions in the EU. Croplands, a primary land use in Europe, have a significant impact on the environment (soil, water bodies, global climate, local biodiversity and human health). The use of fertilisers and pesticides associated with conventional farming may lead to pollution and/or climate chang...

Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production

1 School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Khlong Luang, Thailand, 2 Centre for Conservation Science and Technology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 3 Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan, 4 Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA, 5 U.S. Department of Agricultu...

Fragmentation, disturbance and tree diversity conservation in tropical montane forests

1. Loss in forest cover associated with human activities leads to forest islands within a fragmented landscape. Anthropogenic disturbance may also directly alter tree species diversity. Habitat fragmentation and disturbance may have implications for biodiversity conservation and can affect a variety of population and community processes over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Effects are m...

Sustainable Forest Management in a Disturbance Context: A Case Study of Canadian Sub-Boreal Forests

Effects of tropical montane forest disturbance on epiphytic macrolichens.

The high diversity of epiphytes typical of undisturbed montane tropical forests has been negatively affected by continuous deforestation and forest conversion to secondary vegetation. Macrolichens are an important component of these epiphytes. Because their physiology is strongly coupled to humidity and solar radiation, we hypothesized that microclimatic changes derived from forest clearing and...