Deforestation in Nepal threatens the functioning of complex social-ecological systems, including rural populations that depend on forests for subsistence, as well as Nepal's biodiversity and other ecosystem services. Nepal's forests are particularly important to the nation's poorest inhabitants, as many depend upon them for daily survival. Two-thirds of Nepal's population relies on forests for ...

Toscana virus is the most important agent responsible for meningitis in central Italy. We report a serosurveillance study, using an immunoenzymatic assay, of 360 serum samples harvested from a high-risk population occupationally exposed to Toscana virus in two regions of Italy, Tuscany and Piedmont. The results indicates a seroprevalence of Toscana virus of 77.2% in the forestry workers, partic...

C. Stefanescu ([email protected]), Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, Museu Granollers-Ciències Naturals, Francesc Macià, 51, ES-08402 Granollers (Barcelona), Spain. J. Carnicer, Community and Conservation Ecology Group, Univ. of Groningen, P.O. Box 14, NL-9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands. J. Peñuelas, Global Ecology Unit CSIC-CEAB-CREAF, CREAF (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Application...

Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada Laboratory for Ecological Forecasting and Global Change, College of Forestry, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China ...

Forestry management requires careful and intensive planning efforts to ensure optimal yield, ecological stability, and regulatory compliance. In this paper, we describe a method of identifying wetlands and producing maps of their extent from commonly available, remotely-sensed imagery. This method provides a large labor savings over both field inspections and manual photo inspections. The enhan...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org S natural disturbances – such as wildfires, windstorms, and insect epidemics – are characteristic of many forest ecosystems and can produce a “stand-replacement” event, by killing all or most of the dominant trees therein (Figure 1). Typically, limited biomass is actually consumed or removed in such events, but many trees and other ...

Ecologic-economic systems tend to exhibit greater complexity than systems that are purely ecological or economic. The interactions between the two types often generates nonlinear relations that lead to various kinds of complex dynamics that complicate management and decisionmaking regarding them. Of these, forests have characteristics that lead them to have special problems not usually encounte...

By combining digital humanities text-mining tools and a qualitative approach, we examine changing concepts in forestry journals in Sweden and the United States (US) in the early twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our first hypothesis is that foresters at the beginning of the twentieth century were more concerned with production and less concerned with ecology than foresters at the begi...