Conservation outcomes are principally achieved through the protection of intact habitat or the restoration of degraded habitat. Restoration is generally considered a lower priority action than protection because protection is thought to provide superior outcomes, at lower costs, without the time delay required for restoration. Yet while it is broadly accepted that protected intact habitat safeg...

Surface coal mining in Appalachia has caused extensive replacement of forest with non-forested land cover, much of which is unmanaged and unproductive. Although forested ecosystems are valued by society for both marketable products and ecosystem services, forests have not been restored on most Appalachian mined lands because traditional reclamation practices, encouraged by regulatory policies, ...

Francois' langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) is an endangered primate and endemic to the limestone forests of the tropical and subtropical zone of northern Vietnam and South-west China with a population of about 2,000 individuals. Conservation efforts are hampered by limited knowledge of habitat preference in its main distribution area. We surveyed the distribution of Francois' langur and modele...

This research examines the impact of forest management regimes, with various degrees of restriction, on forest conservation in a dry deciduous Indian forest landscape. Forest change is mapped using Landsat satellite images from 1977, 1990, 1999, and 2011. The landscape studied has lost 1478 km2 of dense forest cover between 1977 and 2011, with a maximum loss of 1002 km2 of dense forest between ...

Forests situated on slopes in mountainous areas can provide protection against natural hazards such as avalanches and rockfall. Quantifying this mitigating effect requires accurate mapping of forest stands and estimation of their dendrometric characteristics. However, steep terrain and lack of accessibility hamper field surveys. Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) is a remote sensing technique whose ...

The central point of the proposal is the analysis of the interdependencies between rural communities and the natural environment of the forest in eighteenth-century Transylvania, as well as the perils to which the environment was exposed as a result of this relationship. At the same time, one will study the ways in which people perceived and approached their environment, thus revealing the cont...

We illustrate a strategy for valuation of forest ecosystem services by studying the demand for its weak complement, agricultural labor –a commodity that has market prices. In our case study forest protection in Ruteng Park of Flores, Indonesia, provides soil conservation benefits to farmers living near the protected area. Econometric analyses of forest hydrology and household data shows that so...

The forests of Central Europe play an important role in the retention of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon sequestration is rarely the main objective of forest management and is often an underappreciated by-effect of practical forest management, whereas timber production and protection against natural hazards in mountain regions are the main forest functions. Climate change is expected to alte...