Sacred forest groves in the Western Ghats of India are small fragments of tropical forest that have received protection due to religious beliefs and cultural practices. These forest fragments are an example of community-based conservation and they serve as refugia for many forest-dwelling species in otherwise highly anthropogenic tropical forest-agriculture landscapes of the Indian Western Ghat...

1. Agriculture causes high sediment, nutrient and light input to streams, which may affect rates of ecosystem processes, such as organic matter decay. In the southern Appalachians, socioeconomic trends over the past 50 years have caused widespread abandonment of farmland with subsequent reforestation. Physical and chemical properties of streams in these reforested areas may be returning to pre-...

This paper presents a framed field experiment on ecological altruism in Mindoro, Philippines. Behavioural differences between ethnic groups Mindoro—the Tagalogs and the Mangyans—were investigated. We designed two-part donation task (i.e. dictator game) where recipient of was local reforestation project. There were two treatments: participants played either giving game (GG) or taking (TG). In fi...

The proper management of soil, in order to improve ecosystem services, requires knowledge how different fractions carbon respond land use/land cover changes. This study aimed evaluate the responses total soil organic carbon, and its fractions, reforestation age use changes an Ultisol Posses catchment, a pilot area Brazilian program Payment for Environmental Services, located Southeastern Brazil...

At this time CDF anticipates the possible use of the following herbicides for invasive weed control and reforestation purposes: Clopyralid, Glyphosate, Imazapyr, Sulfometuron methyl, and Triclopyr. New products, formulations and application techniques may provide better control and improved environmental toxicology profiles. The listed products may prove to be ineffective on a specific species....

The interest in changing the use of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) floodplain has been gathering momentum. Recent changes in federal farm programs, heightened awareness of the value of forested wetlands and increasingly productive farming practices have allowed for consideration of land use changes. Marginal agricultural land in the LMAV, cleared at the time of soaring soybean pri...

The main objective of this study was to assess how mangrove reforestation has influenced litter degradation and concomitant nutrient dynamics in previously deforested plantations. Dynamics of nutrients (carbon, nitrogen and C:N ratios) in decomposing leaves of conspecific species were investigated with litterbags in Sonneratia alba and Rhizophora mucronata reforested treatments using appropriat...

Deforestation in the tropics often leads to unproductive agriculture, and results in 1 abandoned, degraded grasslands that tree species re-colonize poorly. To evaluate why forests do 2 not regenerate naturally, and to identify potential species for use in reforestation of degraded 3 areas, we planted 15,000 seeds of twenty native tree species varying in seed size and shade4 tolerance, in abando...