Austral Ecology
Volume 32, Issue 6, September 2007

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Commentary
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Why Australian tropical scientists should become international leaders
WILLIAM F. LAURANCE
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Response surfaces for the combined effects of heat shock and smoke on
germination of 16 species forming soil seed banks in south-east
Australia
PAUL B. THOMAS, E. CHARLES MORRIS, TONY D. AULD
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Establishment of native perennial shrubs in an agricultural landscape
NATHAN K. WONG, JOSH DORROUGH, JEFF R. HIRTH, JOHN W. MORGAN, ERIS
O'BRIEN
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Abundance, species richness and feeding preferences of introduced
molluscs in native grasslands of Victoria, Australia
KELLY D. HOLLAND, MARK J. MCDONNELL, NICHOLAS S. G. WILLIAMS
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Eucalypt plantings on farms benefit woodland birds in south-eastern
Australia
RODNEY P. KAVANAGH, MATTHEW A. STANTON, MATTHEW W. HERRING
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Regrowth capacity in relation to defence strategy in Stipa clarazii
and Stipa trichotoma, native to semiarid Argentina
ROBERTO A. DISTEL, ALICIA S. MORETTO, NILDA G. DIDONE
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Associations between wasp communities and forest structure: Do strong
local patterns hold across landscapes?
SCOTT A. LASSAU, DIETER F. HOCHULI
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Short-term effects of low intensity fire on soil macroinvertebrate
assemblages in different vegetation patch types in an Australian
tropical savanna
TRACY Z. DAWES-GROMADZKI
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Habitat structure is more important than vegetation composition for
local-level management of native terrestrial reptile and small mammal
species living in urban remnants: A case study from Brisbane, Australia
JENNI G. GARDEN, CLIVE A. MCALPINE, HUGH P. POSSINGHAM, DARRYL N. JONES
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Linear roadside remnants: Their influence on den-use, home range and
mating system in bobucks (Trichosurus cunninghami)
JENNIFER K. MARTIN, KATHRINE A. HANDASYDE, ANDREA C. TAYLOR
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Larval competition within seeds: From the behaviour process to the
ecological outcome in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus
RAUL N. C. GUEDES, NELSA M. P. GUEDES, ROBERT H. SMITH
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Grassland invertebrate assemblages in managed landscapes: Effect of
host plant and microhabitat architecture
ADELE M. REID, DIETER F. HOCHULI
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Book Reviews
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Marsupials
JENNY MARTIN
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Wildlife Damage Control
SYLVIA VAN DER PEET
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Environmental Microbiology
Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2007

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Diversity of the human gastrointestinal tract microbiota revisited
Mirjana Rajilic-Stojanovic, Hauke Smidt, Willem M. de Vos
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Ultrastructural and electron energy-loss spectroscopic analysis of an
extracellular filamentous matrix of an environmental bacterial isolate
Uta Bockelmann, Heinrich Lunsdorf, Ulrich Szewzyk
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A robust identification and detection assay to discriminate the
cucumber pathogens Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum and f. sp.
radicis-cucumerinum
Bart Lievens, Loes Claes, Demetrios J. Vakalounakis, Alfons C. R. C.
Vanachter, Bart P. H. J. Thomma
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Population dynamics of marine magnetotactic bacteria in a meromictic
salt pond described with qPCR
Sheri L. Simmons, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Katrina J. Edwards
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Novel hopanoid cyclases from the environment
Ann Pearson, Sarah R. Flood Page, Tyler L. Jorgenson, Woodward W.
Fischer, Meytal B. Higgins
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Fusarium solani species complex isolates conspecific with Fusarium
solani f. sp. cucurbitae race 2 from naturally infected human and
plant tissue and environmental sources are equally virulent on plants,
grow at 37oC and are interfertile
Hillary L. Mehl, Lynn Epstein
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Interactive effects of solar radiation and dissolved organic matter on
bacterial activity and community structure
Maria Teresa Perez, Ruben Sommaruga
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Decline of soil microbial diversity does not influence the resistance
and resilience of key soil microbial functional groups following a
model disturbance
Sophie Wertz, Valerie Degrange, James I. Prosser, Franck Poly, Claire
Commeaux, Nadine Guillaumaud, Xavier Le Roux
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Effects of environmental conditions on the nitrifying population
dynamics in a pilot wastewater treatment plant
Par Lydmark, Robert Almstrand, Kristina Samuelsson, Ann Mattsson, Fred
Sorensson, Per-Eric Lindgren, Malte Hermansson
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Occurrence and diversity of bacterial communities in Tuber magnatum
during truffle maturation
Elena Barbieri, Chiara Guidi, Joanne Bertaux, Pascale Frey-Klett, Jean
Garbaye, Paola Ceccaroli, Roberta Saltarelli, Alessandra Zambonelli,
Vilberto Stocchi
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Detergent-induced cell aggregation in subpopulations of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa as a preadaptive survival strategy
Janosch Klebensberger, Karin Lautenschlager, Daniel Bressler, Jost
Wingender, Bodo Philipp
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Pseudomonas community structure and antagonistic potential in the
rhizosphere: insights gained by combining phylogenetic and functional
gene-based analyses
Rodrigo Costa, Newton C. M. Gomes, Ellen Krogerrecklenfort, Katja
Opelt, Gabriele Berg, Kornelia Smalla
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Genetic diversity and population structure of Escherichia coli
isolated from freshwater beaches
Seth T. Walk, Elizabeth W. Alm, Lisa M. Calhoun, Janice M. Mladonicky,
Thomas S. Whittam
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Functional screening of a metagenomic library for genes involved in
microbial degradation of aromatic compounds
Hikaru Suenaga, Tsutomu Ohnuki, Kentaro Miyazaki
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Novel and diverse integron integrase genes and integron-like gene
cassettes are prevalent in deep-sea hydrothermal vents
Hosam Elsaied, H. W. Stokes, Takamichi Nakamura, Keiko Kitamura,
Hiroyuki Fuse, Akihiko Maruyama
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Inhibition of the resuscitation from the viable but non-culturable
state in Enterococcus faecalis
Maria del Mar Lleo, Dennis Benedetti, Maria Carla Tafi, Caterina
Signoretto, Pietro Canepari
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Microbial uranium immobilization independent of nitrate reduction
Andrew S. Madden, April C. Smith, David L. Balkwill, Lisa A. Fagan,
Tommy J. Phelps
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Analysis of the role of LinA and LinB in biodegradation of
[delta]-hexachlorocyclohexane
Jun Wu, Qing Hong, Yan Sun, Yuanfan Hong, Qiuxiang Yan, Shunpeng Li
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Bacteriophage influence Campylobacter jejuni types populating broiler
chickens
Andrew E. Scott, Andrew R. Timms, Phillippa L. Connerton, Ayman
El-Shibiny, Ian F. Connerton
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Molecular ecology of nifH genes and transcripts in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea
Dikla Man-Aharonovich, Nurit Kress, Edo Bar Zeev, Ilana Berman-Frank,
Oded Beja
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Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of
ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea of a Chinese
upland red soil under long-term fertilization practices
Ji-zheng He, Ju-pei Shen, Li-mei Zhang, Yong-guan Zhu, Yuan-ming
Zheng, Ming-gang Xu, Hongjie Di
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Diversity and abundance of aerobic and anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing
bacteria in freshwater sediments of the Xinyi River (China)
Ying Zhang, Xiao-Hong Ruan, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Toine J. M. Smits,
Mike S. M. Jetten, Markus C. Schmid
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Microbes and biofuels. An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites
relevant to the topics in Environmental Microbiology
Lawrence P. Wackett
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Forest Pathology
Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2007

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Temporal changes in functional diversity of culturable bacteria
populations in Sitka spruce stumps
A. C. Murray, S. Woodward
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Interaction between Epicoccum purpurascens and xylophagous
basidiomycetes on wood blocks
N. Mielnichuk, S. E. Lopez
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Terpene response of Picea abies and Abies alba to infection with
Heterobasidion s.l.
L. Zamponi, M. Michelozzi, P. Capretti
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Effect of fungicides, endophytes and fungal filtrates on in vitro
growth of Spanish isolates of Gremmeniella abietina
O. Santamaria, M. A. Gonzalez, J. A. Pajares, J. J. Diez
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Association of seed-borne Fusarium species on Pinus ponderosa with
germination and seedling viability in Argentina
M. I. Salerno, G. A. Lori
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Detection of Diplodia pinea in asymptomatic pine shoots and its
relation to the Normalized Insolation index
G. Maresi, N. Luchi, P. Pinzani, M. Pazzagli, P. Capretti
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Geographical and seasonal influences on the distribution of fungal
endophytes in Laurus nobilis
M. E. Gore, C. Bucak
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2007-08-13 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

Publications – Here are some publications and URLs among which are those that I ran across last week doing research in such diverse things as poverty alleviation, remote sensing of swine, and Millennium Development Goals. Perhaps you may find some to be of interest.  Cheers. Gyde.

Da Silva, Luiz Inacio Lula. 2007. Africa Biofuels Can Allow All Humanity to Prosper. http://allafrica.com/stories/200707310628.html

Debut, Beatrice. 2007. East Africa feels the butterfly effect. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=315180&area=/insight/insight__africa/

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor et al. 2007. The Link Between Community Forestry Policies and Poverty and Unemployment in Rural Nepal. Abstract. http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1659%2F0276-4741(2007)27%5B32%3ATLBCFP%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Engeman, Richard M. 2001 Monitoring changes in feral swine abundance and spatial distribution. Abstract. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=88157

Ennals, Alice M. et al. 2003. The Emerging Role of Forestry as an Important Tool in Poverty Alleviation: A role for Norwegian development assistance? 33 p. http://www.nlh.no/noragric/publications/reports/NoragricRep11.pdf

ETFRN NEWS 47/48: Forests and the Millennium Development Goals. http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/newsletter/news4748/nl47_oip.html (Several papers on the subject here).

FAO. 2005. The role of forests in contributing to the Millennium Development Goals. http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/009/j3884e.htm

Garofalo, Donald. 2004. A Semi-Automated Approach for Detecting and Locating Swine Animal Feeding Operations over Regional Areas. 1 p. http://www.epa.gov/scienceforum/2004/ordposter/Garofalo_Donald.pdf

Garofalo, Donald; Jennings, David B. 2004.  Remote Sensing for Detecting Swine Animal Feeding Operations. 2 p.  http://www.epa.gov/nerl/news/forum2004/garofalo_web.pdf and http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/xmlreport.display?deid=82029&z_chk=2625

Garrity, D.P. 2004. Agroforestry and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Abstract. http://www.springerlink.com/content/k88175422u66t6lg/

Hobley, Mary. 2007. Where in the world is there pro-poor forest policy and tenure reform? 91 p. http://www.rightsandresources.org/library/publications/global/Hobley%202007%20Where%20in%20the%20World.pdf

Kerr, Suzi et al. 2007. Development and Deforestation: evidence from Costa Rica. 30 p. http://www.columbia.edu/~ap196/030707costarica.pdf

Mayers, James. 2007 Trees, poverty and targets - Forests and the Millennium Development Goals. 6 p. http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/17004IIED.pdf

O’Reilly, Sheelagh. 2005. The utility of forest ethics - A proposed approach based on field work in Vietnam. 21 p. http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/13506IIED.pdf

Okeowo Alexis. 2007. "Sex Tree," Other Medicinal Plants Near Extinction in Uganda. National Geographic News http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070803-sex-tree.htm

Olsson.Marie-Louise; Knudsen, Anders Kildegaard. 2004. Towards sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation in the Philippines. 155 p. http://diggy.ruc.dk/bitstream/1800/445/1/Towards_sustainable_forest.pdf

Roberts, Ralph W.; Roper, John. N.d. Forests, Trees, and the Millennium Development Goals. 10 p. http://www.rcfa-cfan.org/english/issues.18.htm and http://www.rcfa-cfan.org/english/pdf/Forests,%20Trees,%20and%20the%20Millennium%20Development%20Goals.pdf

Sadykova, Chinara; Pisupati, Balakrishna 2006. Biodiversity Conservation and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Kyrgyz Republic. UNU-IAS Working Paper No. 14745 p. http://www.ias.unu.edu/resource_centre/147%20Chinara%20Sadykova_1.pdf

Schreckenberg, Kathrin; Luttrell. Cecilia. N.d. What contribution does participatory forest management make to the achievement of the MDGS? http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/newsletter/news4748/nl47_oip_20.htm

Shackleton, Charlie M. et al. 2007. The importance of dry woodlands and forests in rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation in South Africa, Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VT4-4K5JC0B-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=e850e3d8689d465e01c37e1451de4b04

Tapson, Frank. n.d.  A Dictionary of Units. This provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI. http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm

van Ouwerkerk, E.N.J. n.d. Web based and database driven decision support tool for integrated farming. 2 p. http://i-farmtools.org/i-farm/FSD07_paper_1_6_vanOuwerkerk.pdf 

Wiersum, K.F.; Ros-Tonen, Mirjam A.F. 2005. The Role of Forests in Poverty Alleviation: Dealing with Multiple Millennium Development Goals. North-South Policy Brief 2005-6. 8 p. http://www.wi.wur.nl/NR/rdonlyres/FADBC382-F7C9-4D2E-B39D-E209AF3C32D2/12131/PolicyBrief20056Theroleofforestsinpovertyalleviati.pdf

URLS of Interest

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement - http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

A New Global Initiative Advancing Forest Tenure, Policy and Market Reforms to Reduce Rural Poverty, Strengthen Forest Governance, Conserve and Restore Forest Ecosystems and Achieve Sustainable Forest-Based Economic Growth. 4 p, http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/publications/conceptnotes/RRI%20Concept%20Note%20-%20Nov%201%5B1%5D.doc.pdf

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in African Dry Forests : from local action to national forest policy reforms. 4 p. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/dryforest/publications/flyer.en.pdf

Asia regional exchange on forest sector contribution to the UN millennium development goals (AFMDG) 2 p. http://www.asiaforestnetwork.org/pub/pub75.pdf

Conversion tables / unit conversion online - http://www.convert-me.com/en/

Forest & MDGs. 6 p. http://www.un.org/esa/forests/pdf/session_documents/unff4/mdgpanel.pdf

Forests, Poverty and Development The Contribution of Forests to the Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction Strategies. 5 p. http://www.iucn.org/themes/fcp/publications/files/UNFF3_poverty_conservation.pdf

Measurement converter - http://convert.french-property.co.uk/

Remote thermographic sensing of livestock - http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5474085-description.html

Terminology Reference System - http://www.epa.gov/trs

The Role of Forests in Contributing to the MDGs . http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/GlobalNetworks/MM-COFO-ENB_14-19-March-2005.pdf

Third National Report of Belgium to the Convention on Biological Diversity. http://bch-cbd.naturalsciences.be/belgium/implementation/documents/nationalreports/natrep3/art10.htm

Newsletters

NWFP-Digest-L No. 8/07 - FAO’s free e-mail journal that covers all aspects of non-wood forest products may be found on FAO's NWFP home page: www.fao.org/forestry/site/12980/en. From Tina Etherington..

FAO SURVEY - Readers are invited to contribute to a brief evaluation of some of the on-line products of FAO and partners on Non-Wood Forest Products, Wood Energy, Forest Harvesting and Environmental Impact Assessments. Please would you take a few minutes to complete a short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=seDkfbMexAiy35iUOvb3uQ_3d_3d. Thank you! From Tina Etherington..

Meetings

3-6 September 2007. Monitoring the Effectiveness of Nature Conservation Programmes. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. More information: http://www.wsl.ch/event_07/monitoring/

30 September-3 October 2007. International Congress – A Global Vision of Forestry in the 21st Century. Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada. See: http://www.forestry.utoronto.ca/centennial/int_congress.htm

17-19 October 2007. Bottlenecks, Solutions, and Priorities in the Context of Functions of Forest Resources. Istanbul, Turkey. International symposium on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Forestry Education in Turkey Symposium Secretariat: Ferhat Gökbulak, Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, symposium150(at)istanbul.edu.tr, http://orman.istanbul.edu.tr/fored150/english/index.htm

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Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume 16, Issue 5, September 2007

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Caribbean mangroves adjust to rising sea level through biotic controls
on change in soil elevation
Karen L. McKee, Donald R. Cahoon, Ilka C. Feller
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Interannual to decadal changes in area burned in Canada from 1781 to
1982 and the relationship to Northern Hemisphere land temperatures
Martin P. Girardin
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Modern pollen assemblages as climate indicators in southern Europe
Walter Finsinger, Oliver Heiri, Verushka Valsecchi, Willy Tinner,
Andre F. Lotter
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Altitudinal gradients of grassland carbon and nitrogen isotope
composition are recorded in the hair of grazers
Tobias Tassilo Mannel, Karl Auerswald, Hans Schnyder
Page 583
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A continental-scale analysis of tree cover in African savannas
Gabriela Bucini, Niall P. Hanan
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Energy and interspecific body size patterns of amphibian faunas in
Europe and North America: anurans follow Bergmann's rule, urodeles its
converse
Miguel A. Olalla-Tarraga, Miguel A. Rodriguez
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The global relationship between forest productivity and biomass
Helen C. Keeling, Oliver L. Phillips
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Body size and host range co-determine the altitudinal distribution of
Neotropical tephritid flies
Umberto Kubota, Rafael D. Loyola, Adriana M. Almeida, Debora A.
Carvalho, Thomas M. Lewinsohn
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Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational
diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains
Nathan J. Sanders, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick,
Robert R. Dunn
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Habitat and climate heterogeneity maintain beta-diversity of birds
among landscapes within ecoregions
Joseph A. Veech, Thomas O. Crist
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Type and spatial structure of distribution data and the perceived
determinants of geographical gradients in ecology: the species
richness of African birds
Jana M. McPherson, Walter Jetz
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Plant species richness in continental southern Siberia: effects of pH
and climate in the context of the species pool hypothesis
Milan Chytry, Jiri Danihelka, Nikolai Ermakov, Michal Hajek, Petra
Hajkova, Martin Koci, Svatava Kubesova, Pavel Lustyk, Zdenka Otypkova,
Denis Popov, Jan Roleeek, Marcela Reznickova, Petr Smarda, Milan
Valachovic
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Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness of New World
woody plants
Michael D. Weiser, Brian J. Enquist, Brad Boyle, Timothy J. Killeen,
Peter M. Jorgensen, Gustavo Fonseca, Michael D. Jennings, Andrew J.
Kerkhoff, Thomas E. Lacher, Abel Monteagudo, M. Percy Nunez Vargas,
Oliver L. Phillips, Nathan G. Swenson, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
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Journal of Ecology
Volume 95, Issue 5, September 2007

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The role of genotypic diversity in determining grassland community
structure under constant environmental conditions
RAJ WHITLOCK, J. PHIL GRIME, ROSEMARY BOOTH, TERRY BURKE
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Genetic identity of interspecific neighbours mediates plant responses
to competition and environmental variation in a species-rich grassland
JASON D. FRIDLEY, J. PHILIP GRIME, MARK BILTON
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Determinants of plant species richness in an alpine meadow
J OLOFSSON, H SHAMS
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Why do big plants make big seeds?
MARK REES, D. LAWRENCE VENABLE
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Persistence of the sexes in metapopulations under intense asymmetric
competition
GISELA GARCIA-RAMOS, CHRISTOPHER STIEHA, D. NICHOLAS McLETCHIE, PHILIP
H. CROWLEY
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What makes the sex ratio female-biased in the dioecious tree Salix
sachalinensis?
NAOTO UENO, YOSHIHISA SUYAMA, KENJI SEIWA
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Genetic erosion explains deviation from demographic response to
disturbance and year variation in relic populations of the perennial
Primula vulgaris
PATRICK ENDELS, HANS JACQUEMYN, REIN BRYS, MARTIN HERMY
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Differential gender selection on floral size: an experimental approach
using Cistus salvifolius
MONTSERRAT ARISTA, PEDRO LUIS ORTIZ
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Effective pollen dispersal is enhanced by the genetic structure of an
Aesculus turbinata population
YUJI ISAGI, DAISUKE SAITO, HIDEYUKI KAWAGUCHI, RYUNOSUKE TATENO,
SONOKO WATANABE
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Local-scale synchrony and variability in mast seed production patterns
of Picea glauca
JALENE M. LAMONTAGNE, STAN BOUTIN
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Implementation of a novel framework for assessing species plasticity
in biological invasions: responses of Centaurea and Crepis to
phosphorus and water availability
NORRIS Z. MUTH, MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI
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Resistance and resilience of New Zealand tree species to browsing
JENNIE N. BEE, GEORGES KUNSTLER, DAVID A. COOMES
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Limiting similarity between invaders and dominant species in
herbaceous plant communities?
SARAH M. EMERY
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Experimental field comparison of native and non-native maple
seedlings: natural enemies, ecophysiology, growth and survival
JANET A. MORRISON, KERRY MAUCK
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Reduced plant-soil feedback of plant species expanding their range as
compared to natives
ROY H. A. VAN GRUNSVEN, WIM H. VAN DER PUTTEN, T. MARTIJN BEZEMER, WIL
L. M. TAMIS, FRANK BERENDSE, ELMAR M. VEENENDAAL
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The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree
[alpha]-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain
forests?
INGRID PARMENTIER, YADVINDER MALHI, BRUNO SENTERRE, ROBERT J.
WHITTAKER, A. T. D. N., ALFONSO ALONSO, MICHAEL P. B. BALINGA, ADAMA
BAKAYOKO, FRANS BONGERS, CYRILLE CHATELAIN, JAMES A. COMISKEY, RENAUD
CORTAY, MARIE-NOEL DJUIKOUO KAMDEM, JEAN-LOUIS DOUCET, LAURENT
GAUTIER, WILLIAM D. HAWTHORNE, YVES A. ISSEMBE, FRANCOIS N. KOUAME,
LAZARE A. KOUKA, MIGUEL E. LEAL, JEAN LEJOLY, SIMON L. LEWIS, LOUIS
NUSBAUMER, MARC P. E. PARREN, KELVIN S.-H. PEH, OLIVER L. PHILLIPS,
DOUGLAS SHEIL, BONAVENTURE SONKE, MARC S. M. SOSEF, TERRY C. H.
SUNDERLAND, JULIANA STROPP, HANS TER STEEGE, MIKE D. SWAINE, M. G. P.
TCHOUTO,
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Regional variability of climate-growth relationships in Pinus cembra
high elevation forests in the Alps
MARCO CARRER, PAOLA NOLA, JEAN LOUIS EDUARD, RENZO MOTTA, CARLO URBINATI
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Effects of size, competition and altitude on tree growth
DAVID A. COOMES, ROBERT B. ALLEN
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Ground-layer disturbance and initial conditions influence gap
partitioning of understorey vegetation
ROBERT T. FAHEY, KLAUS J. PUETTMANN
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Geographic patterns of symbiont abundance and adaptation in native
Australian Acacia-rhizobia interactions
PETER H. THRALL, JO F. SLATTERY, LINDA M. BROADHURST, SOPHIE BICKFORD
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Grass competition induces N2 fixation in some species of African Acacia
M. D. CRAMER, S. B. M. CHIMPHANGO, A. VAN CAUTER, M. S. WALDRAM, W. J.
BOND
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Ecological networks, nestedness and sampling effort
ANDERS NIELSEN, JORDI BASCOMPTE
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Network properties of an epiphyte metacommunity
K. C. BURNS
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2007-08-18 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

Publications – I ran across most of these while doing a search for an official definition of 'agricultural' or 'cropland' for Costa Rica. (I have not been successful thus far – Any help?)

Brown, J.F. 1998. Mapping global grassland ecosystems: a comparison of four data sets. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS apos;98. 1998 IEEE International. Volume 4, Issue , 6-10 Jul 1998 Page(s):2107 - 2111 vol.4 Abstract. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel4/5660/15207/00703756.pdf?arnumber=703756

de Sherbinin, Alex. 2003. The Role of Sustainability Indicators as a Tool for Assessing Territorial Environmental Competitiveness. 16 p. http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/pdf/IFRD_adesherbinin_paper_20nov03.pdf

Donahey, James. 2006. GIS and Remote Sensing Analyses of Forest Plantations in Costa Rica’s Atlantic Lowland Area. 9 p. http://www.nrem.iastate.edu/ECOS/weblogs/Donahey_FinalReport2006.pdf

Fearnside, P.M. 1997. Monitoring needs to transform Amazonian forest maintenance into a global warming mitigation option. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2(2-3): 285-302 http://philip.inpa.gov.br/publ_livres/Preprints/1997/MON-new.htm

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, 2005. Sources of funding to support sustainable forest management. FAO. 509 p. http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/data/sourcebook/world2005eng.pdf From the Conserve Africa List.

Haberl, Helmut et al. 2007. Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/31/12942.

Kok,, Kasper; Veldkamp, A. 2001. Evaluating impact of spatial scales on land use pattern analysis in Central America. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 85 (2001) 205–221. http://www.dpi.inpe.br/cursos/tutoriais/modelagem/referencias/veldkamp_LUCC_CentralAmerica.pdf

Li, Changsheng 2001. Comparing a process-based agro-ecosystem model to the IPCC methodology for developing a national inventory of N2O emissions from arable lands in China. Abstract. http://www.springerlink.com/content/v5x681w37l347507/

Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore et al. 2007. Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change. 50 p. http://www.clarku.edu/~rpontius/pontius_etal_inpress_ars.pdf

Temesgen, Hailemariam, et al. 2007. Forest measurement and biometrics in forest management: Status and future needs of the Pacific Northwest USA. Journal of Forestry 105(5): 233-238.

Wassenaar. T. et al. 2007. Projecting land use changes in the Neotropics: The geography of pasture expansion into forest. Global Environmental Change
Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 86-104. Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFV-4K1G55Y-1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7e4fd32259a7a8039de8709088b5ddaa.

You, Liangzhi; Wood, Stanley. 2004. Assessing the spatial distribution of crop production using a cross-entropy method. EPTD Discussion Paper No. 126. 48 p. http://ifpri.org/divs/eptd/dp/papers/eptdp126.pdf

7 September 2007. Urban Wildspaces. Conference. Sheffield, UK. This one-day event is organised as part of the "Urban Wildscapes" project, which is taking a fresh look at the social meanings and functions of urban waste and wilderness spaces, and exploring approaches to designing and managing these spaces in ways that do not detract from their essential characteristics. You can download the conference announcement and registration form from: http://www.ieem.org.uk/Urban%20Wildscape%20flyer%20and%20booking%20form1.pdf

 
16-18 September 2008 (with subsequent field trip), Landscape Ecology and Forest Management: Challenges and Solutions. Chengdu, China. The Landscape Ecology working party of IUFRO will hold its next, major conference in Chengdu, China. The conference will be followed by an exciting 3-day field trip to Western Sichuan. IUFRO's urban forestry research group is a co-sponsor of the meeting. It will organise a session/symposium titled ' Urban forest landscapes in the context of developing countries and rapid urbanization'. See: http://research.eeescience.utoledo.edu/lees/IUFRO/2008MTG/.
 
17-19 September 2007. The History, Ecology and Archaeology of Medieval Parks and Parklands. Conference. Sheffield, UK. More information about this event is available at: http://www.ukeconet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=26
 
17-18 October 2007. Enjoy and Protect our Forests. Fontainebleau, France. This conference, held at the site of the beautiful forest of Fontainebleau in France, discusses the results of the PROGRESS project (Promotion and Guidance for Recreation on Ecologically Sensitive Sites). The project has explored new ways to monitor recreational use in the New Forest and Fontainebleau Forest. The project team have also been investigating the impact recreation has on nature, and ways in which to ease the pressure. See: http://www.progress-eu.info/Docs/Conference%20EN.pdf.
 
26-30 November 2007. Communication for urbanised forestry and green-space management. International course, Noedebo, Denmark. This is the second edition of this course, meant for urban woodland and green space planners and managers. Innovative approaches within media relations, marketing, lobbying and public involvement will be discussed. Registration is open until 15 September 2007.For further information, visit http://en.sl.life.ku.dk/kurserogefteruddannelse/kurser/communicationinurbanisedforestry.aspx?

Other meetings from Dr. V. Sivaram

21 – 23 November 2007. 3rd Global Summit on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (GOSMAP-3). Chiang Mai, Thailand. See: www.gosmap3-cmu.co.nr

20-22 November 2008. World Biodiversity Congress. 2008 Chiang Mai, Thailand. A call for papers is now open. For more information, contact: biodiversity2008@...

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Vacancy Announcement from Gandhiv Kafle via the Wetlands Friends list.

WWF International, Director, Freshwater.. WWF International has a new opening for an experienced Director, Freshwater for its Programme Division. The Director, Freshwater will act as a "hub" for Network conservation expertise and develop common policy positions, programmatic approaches and technical messaging. He/she will also engage with key institutions to ensure that WWF is known, respected and influential in key fora. Key Requirements: Advanced degree or equivalent work experience in relevant discipline like environmental policy, environmental law, environment and development or natural resources management; At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in conservation, environment and development or policy work; Proven experience as an effective spokesperson, lobbyist and conservation strategist; Experience working with governments, corporate sector, aid agencies, civil society, and NGOs; donor relation management, fundraising; Strong project management skills; Remote management skills; Proven leadership and supervisory skills; ability to mentor and develop multi-disciplinary, multicultural teams; Strong oral and written communication skills in English, other languages an advantage. The exact location of the position will be decided later, depending on WWF's needs and the incumbent. For further information on the position see http://www.ramsar.org/wn/w.n.vacancy_wwf_freshwater.pdf. If this sounds like you, we invite you to send a cover letter and CV to: recruitments@.... Deadline: 07 September 2007

5^th Brazil Plantation Forestry Study Tour in the Spring of 2008. For details contact mark@... and see www.WorldForestInvestment.com

Vegetation - Guidelines for site-based survey http://www.daff.gov.au/brs/forest-veg/asls-handbook/field

Information Exchange Forums – From the Tropical Biodiversity List.

Climate Change and Global Warming - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateConcern/

Environmental Sustainability - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sustainabilitymatters/

African Journal of Ecology
Volume 45, Issue 3, September 2007

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Policy Piece
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When protection falters
Tim Caro, Paul Scholte
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The population of Acacia tree species producing gum arabic in the
Karamoja region, Uganda
Simon P. Egadu, Patrick Mucunguzi, Joseph Obua
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Factors influencing the natural regeneration of Polyscias kikuyensis
Summerh in Nyamweru forest - Kikuyu escarpment, Kenya
M. Karachi, G. Giathi, N. M. Muchiri
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Habitat preferences of small mammals in the Katavi ecosystem of
western Tanzania
Emily Fitzherbert, Toby Gardner, Tim Caro, Paula Jenkins
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The vulnerability and resilience of Dioscorea species in utilized and
nonutilized zones of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Dominic Byarugaba, P. Ndemere, J. Midgley
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Pollen foraging by Apis mellifera and stingless bees Meliponula
bocandei and Meliponula nebulata in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park,
Uganda
Robert Kajobe
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Patterns of scavenger arrival at cheetah kills in Serengeti National
Park Tanzania
J. S. Hunter, S. M. Durant, T. M. Caro
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Ecology of a nutrient-deficient interface zone of Lake Nabugabo, Uganda
Eliezer M. Kateyo
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Changing social organization in an ungulate population subject to
poaching and predation - the kob antelope (Kobus kob kob) in the Comoe
National Park, Cote d'Ivoire
Frauke Fischer, K. Eduard Linsenmair
Page 285
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Do farming practices influence population dynamics of rodents? A case
study of the multimammate field rats, Mastomys natalensis, in Tanzania
A. W. Massawe, W. Rwamugira, H. Leirs, R. H. Makundi, Loth S. Mulungu
Page 293
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A half a century of habitat change in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
David Western
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Spirostreptid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida) of urban and
peri-urban habitats in Zimbabwe
T. Mwabvu
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Are fisheries management, measures in Lake Victoria successful? The
case of Nile perch and Nile tilapia fishery
M. Njiru, P. Nzungi, A. Getabu, E. Wakwabi, A. Othina, T. Jembe, S.
Wekesa
Page 315
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Responses of three Acacia species to simulated herbivory in a
semi-arid southern African savanna
Johnson Tsumele, Donald Mlambo, Allan Sebata
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The impact of elephants on plants and their community variables in
South Africa's Maputaland
Robert Guldemond, Rudi van Aarde
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Nonrandom co-occurrence patterns of rainforest chameleons
Luca Luiselli
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A presence-only habitat suitability model for large grazing African
ungulates and its utility for wildlife management
Lochran W. Traill, Rudi C. Bigalke
Page 347
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Diversity and distribution of invasive weeds in Ashanti Region, Ghana
A. K. Anning, K. Yeboah-Gyan
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Germination responses of the Rubia fruticosa Ait. seed dispersal
system in different experimental seasons
A. Rodriguez, M. Nogales, C. Nieves
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Assessment of aquatic vegetation invasion of Jebba Lake, Nigeria
G. O. Adesina, O. A. Akinyemiju, V. F. Olaleye
Page 365
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Habitat diversity and fish assemblages in an African river basin
(Nyagui River, Zimbabwe)
Wilbert T. Kadye, Brian E. Marshall
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Implications of assumption violation in density estimates of antelope
from dung-heap counts: a case study on grey duiker (Sylvicapra
grimmia) in Zimbabwe
Nicola Lunt, Andrew E. Bowkett, Amy B. Plowman
Page 382
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Abundance and distribution of fish in the lower Mnembo River,
Malawi-Mozambique
Leanda M. Delaney, Daniel M. Jamu, Christine E. Campbell
Page 390
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Population biology of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) at
Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa
Anna E. Jolles
Page 398
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Population responses to natural and human-mediated disturbances:
assessing the vulnerability of the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus
amphibius)
Rebecca Lewison
Page 407
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Productivity indexing of wild herbivores on Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
and Ol Pejeta Ranch in northern Kenya
T. W. Simiyu, G. A. Olukoye, J. W. Wakhungu, W. N. Wamicha
Page 416
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00749.x?ai=ux&\
ui=8mfr&af=T


Different land-use types affect bird communities in the Kalahari,
South Africa
Adrian Hudson, Henk Bouwman
Page 423
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Population trends of antelopes in Waza National Park (Cameroon) from
1960 to 2001: the interacting effects of rainfall, flooding and human
interventions
Paul Scholte, Saleh Adam, Bobo Kadiri Serge
Page 431
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Evidence for the local depletion of bay duiker Cephalophus dorsalis,
within the Ipassa Man and Biosphere Reserve, north-east Gabon
Nathalie van Vliet, Robert Nasi, Louise Emmons, Francois Feer, Prosper
Mbazza, Mathieu Bourgarel
Page 440
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Ornamental plant invasions in mountain forests of Reunion (Mascarene
Archipelago): a status review and management directions
J. Tassin, J. Triolo, C. Lavergne
Page 444
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Status of large carnivores in Bouba Ndjida National Park, Cameroon
Hans Bauer
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WRI Digest
August 2007, Volume 3, Number 8

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Tracking the World's Forests with Satellites

August 3 - WRI is using satellite technology to track tree cover
change and investigating its potential to create a new standardized
global mapping system. By turning data from the MODIS (MODerate
Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer) sensor operated by NASA into
high-resolution maps, major land cover conversions can be detected in
a cost-effective, easily standardized way for the first time.
Furthermore, MODIS' data is acquired nearly daily for the entire earth
surface and is inexpensive, as compared to current systems which can
be costly and are only available every few years. A related article on
WRI's Web site reviews how deforestation is being monitored in Brazil:

http://www.wri.org/biodiv/topic_content.cfm?cid=4483

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Why Corporations are Switching to Renewable Energy

August 2 - A new WRI policy note outlines reasons why more and more
corporations are switching to renewable energy. "The Business Case for
Corporate Use of Renewable Energy in Europe" outlines three major
benefits driving the change.

More: http://www.wri.org/climate/topic_content.cfm?cid=4512

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Swapping Employment Taxes for Carbon Taxes

August 3 - WRI and the Brookings Institution are analyzing a green
employment tax swap as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
reform the tax code. Under this proposal, a national tax on carbon
emissions is paired with a reduction in the payroll tax. WRI and
Brookings released a policy note earlier this year outlining several
benefits of a green employment tax swap.

More: http://www.wri.org/climate/topic_content.cfm?cid=4512

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Featured WRI Testimony: Voluntary Carbon Offsets

July 19 - Derik Broekhoff, WRI climate and energy program senior
associate, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Select
Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on "Voluntary
Carbon Offsets: Getting What You Pay For." Following the testimony,
committee chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) sent letters to the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Trade Comission
requesting assistance in developing of standards for the carbon offset
market. Broekhoff's full testimony can be found here:

http://pdf.wri.org/20070718_broekhoff_testimony.pdf

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EarthTrends Update: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in
Developing Countries

July 30 - Developing nations are likely to face the heaviest burdens
of climate change and are also the least prepared to face it,
according to EarthTrends' July monthly update. "Vulnerability and
Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries" outlines what
types of countries face the biggest risks as well as potential
mitigation strategies.

http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/225

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New Ventures Company Profile: Cleanstar Energy

July 26 - New Ventures' latest company profile showcases an Indian
company that creates biofuels from oilseeds for profit while promoting
sustainable development. The full profile, written by New Ventures
India's Rajya Karipineni, can be found here:

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/07/26/rising-ventures-cleanstar-brings-
biofuels-benefits-to-the-bop

Another New Ventures India company, Conserve, has turned rag-picking,
a common practice in India, into a profitable business.  A video
showcasing Conserve's unique business model can be found here:

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/08/06/from-the-back-yard-to-the-boutique-
entrepreneurship-in-india

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Understanding Corporate Purchases of Wood Products

July 20 -  An upcoming WRI publication and tool, "Sustainable
Procurement of Wood and Paper-Based Products: Guide and Resource Kit"
will give office managers an overview of the issues surrounding
sustainable procurement of forest products and of some of the tools,
projects, initiatives and labels that can aid sustainable procurement.
An article featured on WRI's Web site previews the guide and provides
key questions office managers should ask about their products.

More: http://www.wri.org/biodiv/topic_content.cfm?cid=4257

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Customizing Greenhouse Gas Calculation

August 7 - A new WRI guidebook explains how to customize a greenhouse
gas (GHG) calculation tool for use in diverse GHG programs or to
reflect national and regional circumstances. "Designing a Customized
Greenhouse Gas Calculation Tool" helps technical staff adapt existing
GHG Protocol calculation tools to use for a specific GHG program or to
more closely reflect national and/or
regional circumstances.

More: http://www.wri.org/climate/pubs_description.cfm?pid=4331

Molecular Plant Pathology
Volume 8, Issue 5, September 2007

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Root rot disease of legumes caused by Aphanomyces euteiches
ELODIE GAULIN, CHRISTOPHE JACQUET, ARNAUD BOTTIN, BERNARD DUMAS
Page 539
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Potato spindle tuber viroid: the simplicity paradox resolved?
ROBERT A. OWENS
Page 549
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Botrytis cinerea: the cause of grey mould disease
BRIAN WILLIAMSON, BETTINA TUDZYNSKI, PAUL TUDZYNSKI, JAN A. L. VAN KAN
Page 561
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SIPK conditions transcriptional responses unique to either bacterial
or oomycete elicitation in tobacco
HARDY C. HALL, MARCUS A. SAMUEL, BRIAN E. ELLIS
Page 581
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Differential gene expression in Arabidopsis following infection by
plant-parasitic nematodes Meloidogyne incognita and Heterodera schachtii
VICTORIA L. FULLER, CATHERINE J. LILLEY, HOWARD J. ATKINSON, PETER E.
URWIN
Page 595
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ui=8mfr&af=T


An activating mutation of the Sclerotinia sclerotiorum pac1 gene
increases oxalic acid production at low pH but decreases virulence
YOUNG TAE KIM, DOV PRUSKY, JEFFREY A. ROLLINS
Page 611
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00423.x?ai=y6&\
ui=8mfr&af=T


Molecular cloning of Brassica rapa nitrilases and their expression
during clubroot development
TOSHIKI ISHIKAWA, KEIICHI OKAZAKI, HARUKA KURODA, KIMIKO ITOH,
TOSHIAKI MITSUI, HIDETAKA HORI
Page 623
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00414.x?ai=y6&\
ui=8mfr&af=T


Transcriptome profiling of the response of Mycosphaerella graminicola
isolates to an azole fungicide using cDNA microarrays
HANS J. COOLS, BART A. FRAAIJE, TIM P. BEAN, JOHN ANTONIW, JOHN A. LUCAS
Page 639
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ui=8mfr&af=T


The histidine kinase CpHK2 has impact on spore germination, oxidative
stress and fungicide resistance, and virulence of the ergot fungus
Claviceps purpurea
EVA NATHUES, CORDULA JORGENS, NICOLE LORENZ, PAUL TUDZYNSKI
Page 653
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00421.x?ai=y6&\
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Potato virus X: structure, disassembly and reconstitution
JOSEPH ATABEKOV, EUGEN DOBROV, OLGA KARPOVA, NINA RODIONOVA
Page 667
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ui=8mfr&af=T


The role of plant defence proteins in fungal pathogenesis
RICARDO B. FERREIRA, SARA MONTEIRO, REGINA FREITAS, CLAUDIA N. SANTOS,
ZHENJIA CHEN, LUIS M. BATISTA, JOAO DUARTE, ALEXANDRE BORGES, ARTUR R.
TEIXEIRA
Page 677
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00419.x?ai=y6&\
ui=8mfr&af=T


Recent progress in the development of RNA interference for plant
parasitic nematodes
CATHERINE J. LILLEY, MANJULA BAKHETIA, WAYNE L. CHARLTON, PETER E. URWIN
Page 701
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00422.x?ai=y6&\
ui=8mfr&af=T

Weed Biology and Management
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2007

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REVIEW PAPER
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Weed seed movement and dispersal strategies in the agricultural
environment
STEFANO BENVENUTI
Page 141
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Residual thenylchlor concentration in soil water and its phytotoxic
activity in soil
HIROTATSU MURANO, KATSUICHIRO KOBAYASHI, SHINSUKE FUJIHARA
Page 158
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1445-6664.2007.00251.x?ai=102\
&ui=8mfr&af=T


Specific and total activities of the allelochemicals identified in
buckwheat
ANNA GOLISZ, BARBARA LATA, STANISLAW W. GAWRONSKI, YOSHIHARU FUJII
Page 164
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&ui=8mfr&af=T


Characterization of reactive oxygen species-involved oxidative damage
in Hapalosiphon species crude extract-treated wheat and onion roots
NUTTHA SANEVAS, YUKARI SUNOHARA, HIROSHI MATSUMOTO
Page 172
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&ui=8mfr&af=T


Allelopathic potential of Trifolium resupinatum L. (Persian clover)
and Trifolium alexandrium L. (Berseem clover)
FARIBA MAIGHANY, JAVAD KHALGHANI, MOHAMMAD ALI BAGHESTANI, MORTEZA
NAJAFPOUR
Page 178
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SHORT REPORTS
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Effects of pyruvate and sucrose on acetolactate synthase activity in
Lindernia species and Schoenoplectus juncoides in an in vivo assay
AKIRA UCHINO, HIROAKI WATANABE
Page 184
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&ui=8mfr&af=T


Bud sprouting of torpedograss (Panicum repens L.) as influenced by the
rhizome moisture content
HIKARU AKAMINE, MOHAMMAD AMZAD HOSSAIN, YUKIO ISHIMINE, HITOSHI
KURAMOCHI
Page 188
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Germination, persistence, and emergence of flaxleaf fleabane (Conyza
bonariensis [L.] Cronquist)
HANWEN WU, STEVE WALKER, MICHAEL JONATHAN ROLLIN, DANIEL KEAN YUEN
TAN, GEOFF ROBINSON, JEFF WERTH
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2007-08-24 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

3P or not to 3P – My long-time friend, Harry Wiant, writes “A 3P forest inventory program, written by Phillip Manning, a forestry student at Penn State University, is available on my website  (www.geocities.com/harryvwiant ). The 3P system is an excellent choice when doing a 100% tally of timbe.”

 
Publications I ran across some of the following while searching for articles on for modeling biomass in temperate and boreal forests. Perhaps some of you may find a couple useful.

Champion, I. et al. 2000. Coupling SAR data with forest growth models. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21(8 ): 1763 – 1766. Abstract. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713860705~db=all

Emanuel, William R.; Shugart, Jr, Herman H. Carbon Sources and Sinks in Eastern U.S. Forests. http://nigec.ucdavis.edu/publications/ar/annual99/midwestern/MWEmanuel0.htm

Fang, Jingyun et al. 2006.Overestimated biomass carbon pools of the northern mid- and high latitude forests. Climatic Change 74: 355–368. http://www.nies.go.jp/biology/publications/2006/pdf/2006_tangy01_03.pdf

FAO 1992. Boreal forests. Unasylva - No. 170. http://www.fao.org/docrep/u6850e/u6850e00.htm#Contents

Hame,T. et al. 1997. A new methodology for the estimation of biomass of coniferdominated boreal forest using NOAA AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 18 (15): 3211 – 3243. Abstract. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713858692~db=all

Hickler, Thomas et al. 2004. Using a generalized vegetation model to simulate vegetation dynamics in northeastern USA. Ecology, 85(2): 519–530. http://face.env.duke.edu/PDF/eco852-04.pdf

Keeling, Helen C.; Phillips, Oliver L. 2007. The global relationship between forest productivity and biomass. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16 (5): 618–631. Abstract. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00314.x?journalCode=geb

Kimball, J. S. et al. 2000. Regional assessment of boreal forest productivity using an ecological process model and remote sensing parameter maps. Tree Physiology 20, 761–775. http://secure.ntsg.umt.edu/publications/2000/KKRS00/tp20_00.pdf

Lehtonen, A. et al. 2004. Biomass expansion factors (BEFs) for Scots pine, Norway spruce and birch according to stand age for boreal forests. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 188, Issues 1-3: 211-224. Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T6X-49M0PW0-2&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F05%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=a3387bf805317462b58cf242c4e09e7a

Lehtonen, Aleksi et al. 2004. Biomass estimates in national carbon inventories. 18 slides. http://www.efi.fi/projects/integrated/docs/Seminar/Lehtonen_Biomass.pdf

Liski, Jari et al. 2006. Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922-2004 - an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil. Ann. For. Sci. 63:687-697. 11 p. http://www.afs-journal.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/forest/pdf/2006/07/f6070.pdf

Liu, Xiyun et al. 2005. Assessing boreal forest productivity in China with a biogeographic process model (forest-BGPG). Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS apos;05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Volume 5, Issue , 25-29 July 2005 Page(s): 3094 – 3097. Listing. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/10226/32599/01526491.pdf?arnumber=1526491

Luckman, Adrian J. et al. 1999. Comparing Biomass Retrieval from Temperate, Boreal and Tropical Forests using Spaceborne SAR Imagery. 2 p. Abstract. http://marte.dpi.inpe.br/col/sid.inpe.br/deise/1999/02.04.16.09/doc/T193.pdf and http://www.ltid.inpe.br/dsr/pedro/Resumo/adrian.htm

Mickler, Robert A. et al. 2002. Regional modeling of live and dead woody biomass for the eastern U.S. 6 p. http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/durham/4104/papers/Mickler_Earnhart_etal_short_pap_2002.pdf

Muukkonen, P.; Heiskanen , J. 2005. Estimating biomass for boreal forests using ASTER satellite data combined with standwise forest inventory data. Remote Sensing of Environment 99: 434 – 447. http://www.metla.fi/hanke/3306/muukkonen_heiskanen_aster_rse_2005.pdf

Muukkonen, Petteri. 2006. Forest inventory-based large-scale forest biomass and carbon budget assessment: new enhanced methods and use of remote sensing for verification. 49 p. http://www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df30.pdf

Næsset, E. n.d. Estimation of above- and below-ground biomass in boreal forest ecosystems. 4 p. http://www.isprs.org/commission8/workshop_laser_forest/NAESSET.pdf

Nightingale, J. M. et al. 2004. Ecosystem process models at multiple scales for mapping tropical forest productivity. Progress in Physical Geography 28(2): 241-281. Abstract. http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/2/241

Potter, Christopher S. et al. 2000. Comparison of boreal ecosystem model sensitivity to variability in climate and forest site parameters. 45 p. http://www.geog.utoronto.ca/info/facweb/Chen/Chen's%20homepage/PDFfiles/BOR_III.pdf

Saatchi, Sasan S.; Moghaddam, Mahta. 1999? Estimation of Crown and Stem Water Content and Biomass of Boreal Forest Using Polarimetric SAR Imagery. 34 p. http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/17463/1/99-0916.pdf and http://conferences.esa.int/98c07/review_open/papers/99mb27.pdf

Santoro, Maurizio et al. 2005. On the generation of a forest biomass map for northeast China: SAR interferometric processing and development of classification algorithm. 6 p. http://earth.esa.int/fringe2005/proceedings/papers/545_santoro.pdf

Schomaker, M.E.; et al. 2007. Crown-condition classification: a guide to data collection and analysis. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-102. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 78 p.  Available online at: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/27730.

Sohngen, Brent; Mendelsohn, Robert A. 2004. Sensitivity Analysis of Carbon Sequestration. Paper prepared for Energy Modeling Forum Snowmass Meeting. August, 2004. 29 p. http://www-agecon.ag.ohio-state.edu/people/sohngen.1/forests/Snowmass_sohngen&Mendelsohn_04.pdf

Tsolmon, R.A et al. 2002. A method to estimate forest biomass and its application to monitor Mongolian Taiga using AVHRR and Vegetation. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS apos;02. 2002 IEEE International 5 (2002): 2909 - 2911 vol.5. Summary. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/7969/22040/01026818.pdf?tp=&arnumber=1026818&isnumber=22040

Zheng, Daolan et al. 2004. Estimating net primary production of boreal forests in Finland and Sweden from field data and remote sensing. Journal of Vegetation Science 15(2):161-170. Abstract. http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1658%2F1100-9233(2004)015%5B0161%3AENPPOB%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Zheng, Daolan, et al. 2007. Forest biomass estimated from MODIS and FIA data in the Lake States: MN, WI and MI, USA. Forestry Online. Abstract. http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/cpm015v1

Adam, Stephen. 2007. Painting the Picture of Tropical Tree Cover Change: Brazil. WRI. http://www.wri.org/biodiv/topic_content.cfm?cid=4483
Adam, Stephen, et al. 2007. Painting the Global Picture of Tree Cover Change: Tree Cover Loss in the Humid Tropics. WRI. 1 p. http://www.wri.org/biodiv/pubs_description.cfm?pid=4321

Are Boreal Forests Changing? Multifaceted Approaches for Detecting Trends in Terrestrial Carbon and Energy Exchange at High Latitudes. Summary of Posters. http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/fm06-sessions/fm06_B21A.html

Forest Growth Models References - http://www.ffp.csiro.au/nfm/mdp/pgs/pgsrefs.htm

Implementation of Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) in the Boreal Forest (2000). 77p. http://lcluc.umd.edu/products/pdfs/Wrkshp-Novosibirsk2000.pdf

Painting the Global Picture of Tree Cover Change (Poster) - http://images.wri.org/treecoverchange_poster.jpg

References and Summaries for Boreal Forest Data Sets - http://www.daac.ornl.gov/NPP/html_docs/boreal_refs.html

Remote Sensing Tutorial -  http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Homepage/Homepage.html From Steve Hunter.

Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/bericht-88726.html
 

VACANCIES – From Barbara Conkling via Forest Health Monitoring Program August Monthly Update.

Entomologist - The U.S. Forest Service State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection (FHP) Region 5 is currently advertising an Entomologist, GS-0414-11/12 position located in the San Bernadino National Forest, Supervisor’s Office, San Bernadino, CA. The application deadline is August 30, 2007. This is a permanent full-time position. The listed duties are performing a variety of field and laboratory tasks in support of pest management and forest health protection; and providing forest land managers with professional advice and technical assistance that is useful in minimizing damage caused by forest insects. The full announcement is available at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov. The vacancy announcement is ADS07-R5-BDFSO-2394G (current federal employees) and ADS07-R5-BDFSO-2394DP (all other applicants). For more information about the duties and responsibilities of this position, please contact Andi Koonce, akoonce@..., or phone (909) 382-2673.

Post-doctoral Researcher in Spatial Modeling of Human-Environment Interactions, Center for Applied Geographic Information Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. We seek a post-doctoral associate whose research interests focus on the spatial dimensions of human-environment interactions, with emphasis on urbanizing metropolitan regions. Qualified candidates will possess a multidisciplinary background applicable to the understanding of environmental and human systems, such as work in forest ecology, landscape ecology, land-use change dynamics, conservation planning, sustainable development, and/or environmental management and policy. Strong quantitative and spatial modeling skills are required. Experience with field methods and integration of field data with GIS and remote sensing data for multi-scalar spatial analysis is desired. Evidence of strong publication potential and ability to generate external funding is essential. Salary and Benefits:  $40,000 per year, student health benefits, plus $10,000 annual budget for research and travel. The position will be located at UNC Charlotte in the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (www.gis.uncc.edu) with an appointment of 2 to 4 years pending performance. As part of a rapidly growing research university, the Center is integrally involved in several federally funded projects in both basic and applied GIScience research ranging from modeling impacts of urban growth on forest loss to predicting the spread of emerging forest disease. Start date:  Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2007 and will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. Start date is negotiable. To apply: please send an electronic application via e-mail with curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, and the names of three references to Dr. Ross Meentemeyer (rkmeente@...). Include “Center Post-Doc Search” in the subject line. For more information, please feel free to contact Dr. Meentemeyer by e-mail.

Assistant Professor - The Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University is accepting applications for the following position: Forest Entomology/Forest Health Management; Assistant Professor or Associate Professor; Research (87%) and Teaching (13%); Tenure-track, 12-month Appointment located at the main campus in Starkville, MS. The application deadline is September 1, 2007. The starting date is October 1, 2007, or as soon as possible thereafter. The incumbent will be expected to develop an active research program in the area of Forest Entomology/Forest Health Management. Expertise and interest in conducting interdisciplinary research on some combination of forest insects and associated microorganisms, forest pathogens, and their interactions are desired. Research opportunities abound from targeted-basic to applied and from molecular to ecological, with the major discipline orientation and areas of expertise of the incumbent determining research emphasis. Direction of graduate students is expected to be an integral part of the incumbent’s research program. The incumbent will be responsible for teaching one course: “Forest Pest Management” (EPP 3124), a four-credit undergraduate course covering both insects and diseases, each fall semester. This course is required in the Forestry curriculum. It is anticipated that the incumbent will modify this course to provide graduate-level as well as undergraduate-level credit. Qualifications are a Ph.D. in Entomology, Plant Pathology (with entomological training), or related biological discipline. The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Application must be made online at https://www.jobs.msstate.edu/. Click on "Search Postings" and search for Requisition Number 3297. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, official university transcripts, and the names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references. For additional information, contact Barbara Perrigin at bep2@... . Mississippi State University is an AA/EEO employer.

Maine Urban & Community Forestry Program Coordinator - Maine Department of Conservation. Maine Forest Service – Augusta, Maine. Class Code: 0603 Grade: 25 - $36,816 - $50,502 . Value of State-paid Health & Dental: $322.97 biweekly; Value of State's share of Employee's Retirement: 18.46% of pay. This is professional, interdisciplinary work involved in administering Project Canopy, Maine's community forestry program, with the goal of promoting the economic, environmental, and aesthetic values of community forest ecosystems. Duties involve many aspects of community forestry, including planning, project development, project management, resource assessments, contract preparation and administration, on-site monitoring, and evaluation. A major duty of this position involves administration of a large federal grant. Frequent statewide and overnight travel and evening and weekend work are required. Please visit our website for typical duties and specific qualifications at www.maine.gov/doc/jobs/DirectHire.shtm. Minimum Qualifications: Eight year combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field directly related to urban & community forestry, including at least 3 years of program administration experience involving budget preparation and grants management. Preference given to those with willingness to think creatively and demonstrate initiative; experience in public presentations and managing stakeholder groups, including ability to convey complex issues to a wide range of listeners; demonstrated ability to manage and lead project teams constructively and productively; and ability to independently set/meet deadlines and complete multiple projects over long time periods. To Apply, Please send a State of Maine Direct Hire application, resume, and a cover letter addressing the qualifications/responsibilities of position by close of business on 9/28/07 to: Carmen Welch, Natural Resources Service Ctr., 155 SHS, 6 Beech St., Hallowell, ME 04333-0155 USA or fax to 207-287-2216. Link to application: www.maine.gov/bhr/state-jobs/how-to/direct.htm. For job specifics, contact Donald Mansius, Dir. Forest Policy & Mgmt at donald.j.mansius@...

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From - Saied Pirasteh. “I would like to inform you all the following events for your interest:

1- We are orgainzing Health GIS 2008 in 14-16 Jan 2008 in Bangkok. Please visit www.j-geoinfo.net. In this regards every body can send papers to me or Dr. Nitin (nitinkt@...) with my reference no later than 30 September 2007. Please request you to promote this event and inform all your colleagues, so we can contribute our knowledge in the world. Do not hesitate to contact me for more information. I will appreciate all for contributing their knowledge and increasing the possibility of making scientific network for future development of the world. I will highly appreciate people who wish to become sponsors, partner media or book the booths during the conference and exhibition. For sponsor, partner media, booking booth and any other support and information, please contact me at moshaver1380@... . 

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August 25, 2007

Pine wilt disease found in 113 Chinese counties

Pine wilt, a deadly pine disease, has spread to 113 counties in 12
Chinese regions, the State Forestry Administration has said.

Nineteen counties in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi and
Guangdong provinces were newly affected this year, said Cao Qingyao,
the administration's spokesman, on Friday.

The disease has also affected Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing,
Guizhou and Yunnan.

The spread of the disease is mainly due to illegal transport of pine
wood from the affected areas to non-affected areas and processing of
such wood in non-affected areas, noted Cao.

The use of packages using improperly-processed pine wood is also a
major factor in the spread of the disease, he said.

The administration urged local authorities to tighten the control of
illegal transport and processing of pine wood from affected areas.

The pine wilt disease was first found in China in 1982 in Nanjing,
capital city of Jiangsu. It could lead to the destruction of pine forest.

Source: Xinhua

Issued by the APEC Secretariat

APEC and Climate Change

Singapore, August 21, 2007

APEC Leaders will consider climate change, energy security and clean
development as key themes for their 2007 retreat in Sydney.

The use of fossil fuels for transport and electricity production is a
major factor in the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere which contribute to climate change and APEC has already
launched initiatives, primarily through the Energy Working Group
(EWG), to more broadly promote clean and efficient energy production
and use.

In 2001, APEC developed the Energy Security Initiative (ESI), which
comprises short-term measures and long-term policy responses to
address the challenges facing the region's energy supply. APEC's key
activities aimed at practical outcomes on clean development and
climate change include:

I. Energy Investment and Trade

     * APEC is developing mechanisms that could encourage banks to more
fully consider the savings from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE) investments.
     * Natural Gas Trade. APEC Best Practice Principles for Natural Gas
Trade to promote financing and investment, technology transfer, and
transparent permitting processes for liquid natural gas (LNG)
facilities are being developed.
     * Environmental Goods. APEC is seeking to develop a list of
environmental goods that could be updated regularly and used as a
reference for regional trade. APEC is also conducting training on
environmental goods focusing on renewable and clean energy
technologies and water and wastewater treatment.
     * An APEC Energy Trade and Investment Study and Roundtable in 2008
will identify trade and investment barriers to the greater use of
cleaner and more efficient fuels and technologies in the APEC region
and discuss ways to overcome these barriers.

II. Energy Efficiency

Mitigating the effects of climate change through increased energy
efficiency measures is promoted by APEC in a variety of ways:

     * The APEC Energy Standards Information System (APEC-ESIS)
provides government and industry with information on testing
standards, minimum energy performance standards and labeling
requirements for a range of equipment traded in the APEC region.
     * Increasing highway transport and passenger transport system
efficiency is an important issue for the APEC Expert Group on Energy
Efficiency and Conservation. This includes the examination of a range
of policies for improving the fuel efficiency and the analysis of
transportation data to track energy efficiency improvements.
     * An APEC Energy Peer Review Mechanism is being developed for APEC
member economies to undergo a voluntary progress review, relating to
energy policy reforms and implementation of initiatives aimed at
attaining energy efficiency goals.

III. Energy Technology

Technological advances have created opportunities to reduce emissions
in a number of areas:

     * The APEC Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies
(EGNRET) designs projects to assess, develop, and promote renewable
energy technologies. This includes a sourcebook of hydrogen codes &
standards for APEC member economies and projects focusing on
developing best practices in energy efficiency and renewable energy in
buildings.
     * The APEC Expert Group on Clean Fossil Energy (EGCFE) sponsors
studies and training to help expand the use of clean coal technologies
and natural gas in electricity generation.
     * Nuclear Power is an important source of low-emission energy
generation in the region and APEC Energy Ministers have been active in
encouraging relevant economies to ensure the safety, security,
seismic, health and waste handling aspects of civilian nuclear energy
are adequately addressed.

IV. Transport Emission And Alternative Fuels

Recognizing that the transportation sector contributes large-scale
emissions and is the leading sector for oil demand growth in the APEC
region, APEC is working with industry to improve fuel efficiency and
promote alternative fuel use.

     * APEC Transportation Ministers have directed the Transportation
Working Group (TPTWG) to work with experts on sustainable policy
approaches to address emissions from aviation operations. A first APEC
seminar which developed options to reduce aviation emissions based on
mutual consent, was held from 10-11 August in Singapore.
     * The APEC Biofuels Task Force is overseeing projects such as an
assessment of biofuel resources and supply potential and establishing
guidelines for biodiesel standards in order to enhance APEC biodiesel
trade.

V. Preparedness And Adaptation

Across a broad range of sectors APEC fora are working to increase
awareness and preparations for the potential repercussions of climate
change, including:

     * The APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group (ISTWG)
will conduct a project to help member economies reduce negative
economic impacts, and protect lives and properties by providing
climate prediction information. The ISTWG is also assisting in the
development of an early warning system of high impact climate changes.
     * The APEC Marine Resources Conservation Working Group (MRCWG) has
developed projects on climate change adaptation to deal with issues
that include rising sea levels.

VI. Dialogue With Business Sector

Public-private sector partnerships have become an important ingredient
for the success of government policy in addressing the challenges of
climate change. APEC provides a forum for government-to-business
dialogues including:

     * The Energy Business Network (EBN) was created to provide an
industry perspective on the key energy challenges that could be
factored into government decision making. This is particularly
relevant when considering issues relating to climate change.
     * The 2007 APEC Energy Business Forum enabled Energy Ministers and
senior energy industry representatives from a wide range of APEC
member economies to discuss ways to deal with the impact of high
energy prices and climate change on the efficiency of energy use and
options for clean energy supply in buildings, industry, electric power
generation, and transportation.

VII. Cooperation With Other Organizations

Cooperation and partnership between international organizations on
energy security, climate change and other environmental challenges is
essential for each to make a valid contribution through their specific
area of expertise. For APEC this includes:

     * The EWG collaborating with the International Energy Agency to
build dialogue on energy statistics and indicators, energy technology
development and oil security. The EWG will also submit, as a
partnership initiative led by Australia and Mexico, a report on
"Energy for Sustainable Development: Fostering Regional Energy
Cooperation in APEC" to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development.


For further information:


Christopher Hawkins on +61 (0)433 810 844 or E-mail: ch@...

Anita Douglas on +65 9172 6427 or E-mail: ad@...

Source: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
URL: http://www.apec.org

2007-08-29 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

UNECE/FAO Timber Section - User Survey of Outputs. We are currently evaluating the services and outputs of the UNECE/FAO Timber Section. Knowing the viewpoints of our clients and different stakeholder groups will enable us to improve our services and outputs better. In short, help us to serve you better. We would like to encourage you, if you have not already done so, to respond to the survey by 31 August 2007 to provide your feedback on Timber Section outputs and services. The online user survey is accessible at the following link: http://survey.unece.org/survey/s.phtml?sn=79406&lang=E&secid=032215 or directly from our website http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/. The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete, if you are familiar with our outputs. If not, the survey will guide you to the website to learn more about a particular output. The survey covers the full range of our outputs: publications, newsletter, press releases, website, databases and meetings. The results will provide a major input into the strategic review of the Sections’ activities and guide us in designing our future work programme and outputs. We will gladly send you an overview of the consolidated survey responses. Simply indicate your interest in the appropriate box at the end of the survey. Should you have any queries with regard to the survey, please contact us at this email address: survey.timber@.... From Lindsey Farquharson UNECE.

Columbian Forestry Tour – From Mark Willhite

27 October - 1 November 2007.  2^nd Colombian Forest Investment Tour. Cartagena and Bogota, Colombia, South America. See: www.WorldForestInvestment.com or contact mark@...

In the News

Gadgets That Run on Body Heat - http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/13789

Newsletters

NWFP-Digest-L No. 9/07 - FAO’s free e-mail journal that covers all aspects of non-wood forest products is now available at www.fao.org/forestry/site/12980/en. From Tina Etherington, FAO

IUFRO News - A double issue nos. 7 and 8 of 2007 of the International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO) is now available at http://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/ The issue contains: Exploring Opportunities for Forest, Research Collaboration with Mongolia, Report from Conference on Sharing Indigenous Wisdom, Publications, Awards and Announcements, IUFRO Meetings, and Other Meetings. From Pete Mayer, IUFRO.

Publications – I ran across the following while doing a search for remote sensing of African grasslands. Some may be useful to you.

Atsuko, Nonomura ; Kazadi, Sanga-Ngoie. N.d. Land cover types and thermal balance over Africa using GIS and NOAA/AVHRR data. 4 p. http://www.igf.uni-osnabrueck.de/mitarbeiter/schiewe/papers/22.pdf

Brown, Sandra; Gaston, Greg. N.d. Tropical Africa: Land Use, Biomass, and Carbon Estimates for 1980. http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055.html

Dougill, Andrew; Trodd, Nigel. 1999. Monitoring and Modelling Open Savannas Using Multisource Information: Analyses of Kalahari Studies. Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 8, No. 3/4, Tropical Open Woodlands Special Issue (May - Jul., 1999), pp. 211-221. Abstract. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1466-822X(199905%2F07)8%3A3%2F4%3C211%3AMAMOSU%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Emery, William J.; Tucker, Compton J. 1996. Changes in Global Vegetative Patterns - Update and Methodology. http://www.agci.org/publications/eoc95/sessionI/Summary.html

Fuller, Douglas O. 2006. Tropical forest monitoring and remote sensing: A new era of transparency in forest governance? Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27: 15–29. http://www.as.miami.edu/geography/climatology/SJTG2.pdf

Hannerz, Fredrik; Lotsch, Alexander. 2006. Assessment of land use and cropland inventories for Africa. 22 p. http://www.ceepa.co.za/docs/CDPNo22.pdf

Hassan, R. 2006. Degree of disagreement among cropland inventories in Africa. Policy Note No. 22, August 2006, CEEPA. 8 p. http://www.ceepa.co.za/docs/POLICY%20NOTE%2022.pdf

Helldén, U. 1988. Desertification monitoring: Is the desert encroaching? Desertification Control Bulletin 17: 8-12. http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/docs/002-178/002-178.html

Hoare, David; Frost, Phillip. 2004. Phenological description of natural vegetation in southern Africa using remotely-sensed vegetation data. Applied Vegetation Science Volume 7, Issue 1 (February 2004)/ Abstract. http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1658%2F1402-2001(2004)007%5B0019%3APDONVI%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Jenny McCarthy. 2002. Remote sensing for detection of landscape form and function of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. 63 p. http://www.lwr.kth.se/Publikationer/PDF_Files/LWR_PHD_1000.PDF

Justice, Christopher O. et al. n.d. The Use of Time-Series Satellite Data for Characterization and Monitoring of the Seasonal Forests and Savannas of Central Africa. Study proposal. http://www.worldwildlife.org/bsp/bcn/learning/african/justice.htm

Klein, D.; Menz, G. 2005. .Monitoring of seasonal vegetation response to rainfall variation and land use in East Africa using ENVISAT MERIS data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS apos;05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International. Volume 4, Issue , 25-29 July 2005 Page(s): 2884 – 2887. Listing. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/10226/32598/01525670.pdf?arnumber=1525670

Leysen, Marc et al. 1998. Tropical Forest Mapping by Radar Remote Sensing: Operational Applications at Global Scale. 7 p. http://conferences.esa.int/98c07/papers/P020.PDF

Mayaux, P. et al. 2002. The land cover of Africa for the year 2000. 3 p. http://www-tem.jrc.it/PDF_publis/2002/Mayaux_LUCC_2002.pdf The map is downloadable at ftp://ftp.gvm.sai.jrc.it/pub/glc2000/africa/

Menz, G.; Bethke, M. 2000. Regionalization of the IGBP Global Land Cover Map for Western Africa (Ghana, Togo and Benin). 6 p. http://www.glowa-volta.de/publications/printed/menz_bethke_2000.pdf

Merino de Miguel, Silvia. 1999. Geostatistics and Remote Sensing: Forestry Applications. http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~smerino/

Murwira, Amon; Skidmore, Andrew. Monitoring change in the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation cover in an African savanna. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Volume 27, Number 11, June 2006 , pp. 2255-2269(15). Abstract. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tres/2006/00000027/00000011/art00009?crawler=true

Palmer, A.R.; Fortescue, A. 2003. Remote sensing and change detection in rangelands. 6 p. http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/rgi/irc20031.pdf

Pellikka, P.K.E. et al. 2005. Environmental change monitoring applying satellite and airborne remote sensing data in the Taita Hills, Kenya. Remote sensing and geoinformation processing in the assessment and monitoring of land degradation and desertification, Trier, Germany, 2005. 10 p. http://www.helsinki.fi/science/taita/reports/pellikka_et_al.pdf

Pereira. José M. C. 2003. Remote sensing of burned areas in tropical savannas. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12(4) 259 – 270. Abstract. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WF03028.htm

Philippe, Mayaux et al. 2000. Mapping the Forest-Cover of Madagascar with SPOT 4-VEGETATION data. 6 p. http://vegetation.cnes.fr/vgtprep/vgt2000/mayaux.pdf

Pintea, Lilian. Et al. 2002. Matching multiscale remote sensing data to interdisciplinary conservation needs: the case of chimpanzees in western Tanzania. 12 p. http://www.isprs.org/commission1/proceedings02/paper/00059.pdf

Sannier, C. A. D. et al. 1998. Real-time vegetation monitoring with NOAA-AVHRR in Southern Africa for wildlife management and food security assessment. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Volume 19, Issue 4 March 1998 , pages 621 – 639. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713859557~db=all

Skidmore, Andrew K. et al. n.d. Modelling Herbivore grazing resources using hyperspectral remote sensing and GIS. 7 p. http://www.agile-secretariat.org/conference/estoril/papers/20_Andrew%20Skidmore.pdf

Suttie, J.M. et al. 2005. Grasslands of the World. Plant Production and Protection Series No. 34. FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y8344e/y8344e00.htm#Contents

Tanser, Frank C.; Palmer, Anthony R. 1999. The application of a remotely-sensed diversity index to monitor degradation patterns in a semi-arid, heterogeneous, South African landscape. Journal of Arid Environments (1999) 43: 477–484. http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/rgi/MSDI.pdf

Tucker, Compton J. 1995. African Land-Cover Classification Using Satellite Data. Abstract. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/227/4685/369

Verbesselt, J. et al. 2006. Monitoring herbaceous biomass and water content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series to improve fire risk assessment in savanna ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 101, Issue 3, 15 April 2006, Pages 399-414. Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6V-4JCSK7T-3&_user=10&_coverDate=04%2F15%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=db21bb0dc22210f837a050a33cd691c5

Verbesselt, J. et al. 2007. Monitoring herbaceous fuel moisture content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 108, Issue 4, 29 June 2007, Pages 357-368 Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6V-4MVN07B-2&_user=10&_coverDate=06%2F29%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6778aa13fb1b52ab750c758a10612d74

Verlinden, Alex; Laamanen, Risto 2006. Long Term Fire Scar Monitoring with Remote Sensing in Northern Namibia: Relations Between Fire Frequency, Rainfall, Land Cover, Fire Management and Trees. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Volume 112, Numbers 1-3 / January, 2006 231-253. Abstract http://www.springerlink.com/content/7550k772m26t728t/

Vescovi, F.D. et al. n.d. Detection of human-induced land cover changes in a savannah landscape in Ghana: I. Change detection and quantification. 8 p. http://www.glowa-volta.de/publications/printed/paradoh1_formatted.pdf

Vogt, N. et al. 2006. Integrating remote sensing data and rapid appraisals for land-cover change analyses in Uganda. Land Degrad. Develop. 17: 31–43. http://www.umich.edu/~ifri/Publications/R061-6.pdf

Washington-Allen, Robert A. et al. 2006. A Protocol for Retrospective Remote Sensing–Based Ecological Monitoring of Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology & Management. Abstract. http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-pdf&doi=10.2111%2F04-116R2.1

Wessels, K. J. et al. 2000. Incorporating land cover information into regional biodiversity assessments in South Africa. Animal Conservation (2000), 3: 67-79. Abstract. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=791E397AFDF41B184B8790756613FEEC.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=52071

Yang, J.; Prince, S. D. 2000. Remote sensing of savanna vegetation changes in Eastern Zambia 1972-1989. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Volume 21, Issue 2 January 2000 , 301 – 322. Abstract. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713860557~db=all

Cheers.  Gyde

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Weed Research
Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2007

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Challenges for herbicide resistance evolution and management: 50years
after Harper
P NEVE
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A review of non-chemical weed control on hard surfaces
A M RASK, P KRISTOFFERSEN
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Are weed patches stable in location? Application of an explicitly
two-dimensional methodology
S HEIJTING, W VAN DER WERF, A STEIN, M J KROPFF
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Testing the spatial significance of weed patterns in arable land using
Mead’s test
S HEIJTING, W VAN DER WERF, W KRUIJER, A STEIN
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Tumbleweeds in the Western Australian cropping system: seed dispersal
characteristics of Salsola australis
C P D BORGER, M WALSH, J K SCOTT, S B POWLES
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Are pre-spraying growing conditions a major determinant of herbicide
efficacy?
I RIETHMULLER-HAAGE, L BASTIAANS, C KEMPENAAR, V SMUTNY, MJ KROPFF
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Suppression of Digitaria sanguinalis and Amaranthus palmeri using
autumn-sown glucosinolate-producing cover crops in organically grown
bell pepper
J K NORSWORTHY, M S MALIK, P JHA, M B RILEY
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Comparing after-ripening response and germination requirements of
Conyza canadensis and C. bonariensis (Asteraceae) through logistic
functions
L M KARLSSON, P MILBERG
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Effects of three management strategies on the seedbank, emergence and
the need for hand weeding in an organic arable cropping system
M M RIEMENS, R M W GROENEVELD, L A P LOTZ, M J KROPFF
Page 442
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Molecular and biochemical mechanisms of defence induced in pea by
Rhizobium leguminosarum against Orobanche crenata
Y MABROUK, P SIMIER, P DELAVAULT, S DELGRANGE, B SIFI, L ZOURGUI, O
BELHADJ
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FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 8 NO. 9

September 2007

Forest Information Update (FIU) is a free monthly email newsletter sent to people interested in the inventorying and monitoring of natural resources and reaches about 6000 natural resource specialists worldwide. FIU is produced by Trade and Media Services Ltd (www.southem.com) and is supported by organizations, agencies and individuals working in the natural resources field. FIU is sent to each of the following international lists  - all are free, low volume and secure:

.  Conserve Africa Group- send a blank email to: ConserveAfrica-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

.  Forest list – See http://joyx.joensuu.fi/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=forest-list&A=1

.  Global Association of Online Foresters (GAOF) - see http://www.foresters.org/portal/newmember.php

.  International Forest List (IFL) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ifl-tech2000/

.  Nepalese Foresters - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nepaleseforesters/

.  Wetlandfriends – see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wetlandfriends  and http://www.dgroups.org/groups/wetlandfriends/

Welcome to the latest edition of Forest Information Update. Please note the new Captured on Video section.  If you have a link to a video of interest, or any other items of interest, please feel free to send them to me. You may receive FIU by joining one of the above. If you wish to receive FIU only - send a blank email to forest_information_update-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Back issues of FIU may be found at www.forestinformationupdate.com for 2007; or for earlier editions, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/ and http://joyx.joensuu.fi/listserv/forest-list.html. For questions, to submit material, or to sponsor FIU, please contact me at mike.smith@... or mike.smith@.... Thanks, Mike Smith.

FIU SPONSOR - This issue of FIU is sponsored in part through the generous support of:

 
.  WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE - Transforming lives and landscapes - The World Agroforestry Centre combines excellence in scientific research and development to address global poverty, hunger and environmental needs through collaborative programs and partnerships that transform lives and landscapes locally and globally. For more information see
http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org

.  INTERNATIONAL PLANTATION CERTIFICATION SYMPOSIUM 2007 - "Impact of Certification on Plantation Forestry", 18 – 21 September 2007. The Department of Forest and Wood Science, Stellenbosch University and the Southern African Institute of Forestry, in collaboration with the Program on Forest Policy and Governance, Yale University; the School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University; the School of Government, University of Tasmania; and the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Divisions 1 (Silviculture) and 5 (Forest Products), are proud to announce the presentation of an International Plantation Certification Symposium 2007 in Stellenbosch, South Africa .  The aim of this symposium is to reflect on the effect that forest certification has had during the past ten years on plantations, in terms of their social, operation (including environmental) and economic sustainability.  For more information please visit http://www.sun.ac.za/forestry/Symposium2007/Symp2007.html

.  FORSIGHT RESOURCES, LLC - FORSight Resources is a world-class provider of decision support services for natural resource management. FORSight Resources brings decades of combined forestry and GIS/GPS/mapping experience to provide a full suite of decision support offerings geared specifically towards natural resource management. The company's offerings include forest planning, timberland acquisition due diligence, GIS and data services, inventory and biometrics, and a host of other services. With offices in South Carolina, Washington, and Maine we support forestry operations in all forested regions of the United States and Canada. We also sell and support ESRI GIS and Trimble GPS hardware and software. For more information, please contact Bruce Carroll +1-843.552.0717, Sean Canavan +1-360.882.9030, or Ian Prior +1-207.945.3302, email us at
mailto:info@..., or visit our web site http://FORSightResources.com.

.  ESRI - As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present natural resources information better and more clearly. Working with location information, ESRI's GIS software and solutions give you the power to solve problems you encounter every day. Forestry and other natural resource organizations around the world are using this ESRI software to make smart and timely decisions. ESRI provides powerful GIS solutions to more than 300,000 clients in more than 189 countries and offers mapping technology to meet today's global needs. Using ESRI technology, you too can unlock the spatial component of your valuable data and see your organization's information from a new perspective. For more information, visit the ESRI site at
www.esri.com/forestry <http://www.esri.com/forestry> or contact them at 800-447-9778 in the US or 909-793-2853, ext. 1-1235.

.  FORESTRY AUSTRALIA DIGITAL COUNTRY REPORT - The Digital Country Reports (DCR) are a facts and figures update.  The Forestry Australia DCR is currently being updated and will be available in the next day or so.  For more information, contact Mike Smith at: mike.smith@...

INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gyde Lund, Peter Mayer, Nelson Wong, Boris Schröder, Kate Lance, Mark Willhite. Thank you all for sharing your information!

HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

.  TRACKING THE WORLD'S FORESTS WITH SATELLITES – The World Resource Institute (WRI) is using satellite technology to track tree cover change and investigating its potential to create a new standardized global mapping system. By turning data from the MODIS (MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer) sensor operated by NASA into high-resolution maps, major land cover conversions can be detected in a cost-effective, easily standardized way for the first time. A related article on

WRI's Web site reviews how deforestation is being monitored in Brazil. For more information, go to:
http://www.wri.org/biodiv/topic_content.cfm?cid=4483

.  SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT FUNDING – Via Conserve Africa: Sources of funding to support sustainable forest management. A paper prepared for the FAO work-program component on financing sustainable forest management. 

http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/data/sourcebook/world2005eng.pdf

.  3P INVENTORY PROGRAM AVAILABLE – Gyde Lund writes that his friend Harry Wiant notes that a 3P forest inventory program, written by Phillip Manning, a forestry student at Penn State University, is available at his web site. The 3P system is an excellent choice when doing a 100% tally of timber. For more information, got to:
www.geocities.com/harryvwiant

.  PINE WILT DISEASE SPREADS IN CHINA - Pine wilt, a deadly pine disease, has spread to 113 counties in 12 Chinese regions, the State Forestry Administration has said. Nineteen counties in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces were newly affected this year. The disease has also affected Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, GuizhouYunnan. Source: Xinhua

.  CLIMATE CHANGE ON APEC AGENDA - Leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group will consider climate change, energy security and clean development as key themes for their 2007 retreat in Sydney, Australia this week. For more information, go to
URL: http://www.apec.org

.  CLIMATE CHANGE, FORESTRY AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - The final chapter on Future Prospects and Policy Options issue shows that balancing biodiversity and climate concerns may result in both win-win strategies and some potential conflicts in need of political compromises. IUFRO can contribute scientific support to this dialogue. For more information, got to the 5th Newsletter of the IUFRO Task Force on Forests and Carbon Sequestration at
http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/carbon/publications-and-references/

.  TRACKING THE WORLD'S BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has inaugurated a multi-million dollar effort to track the fate and fortune of the world's biological diversity, the UN agency said in a media communiqué issued here Wednesday. Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership aims to complete a set of indicators that will allow the international community to better assess whether conservation efforts are succeeding towards the target of "reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010". Under the new US$8.8 million partnership, which has secured over US$3.6 million from the GEF, a wider range of existing and new indicators will be brought together to gain greater and deeper insight into whether the 2010 Biodiversity Target is on course. For more information, go to:
http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily_news/unep_launches_2010_biodiversity_initiative_200707183190/

.  AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANT DISCOVERED - It was always thought that there were two species of elephant in the world; the African savanna elephant,( Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus). But now, through DNA testing, it has been discovered that there is a third species; the African forest elephant (courtesy Conserve Africa).
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/african_forest_elephant.htm

.  INDIGENOUS SEEDS - The Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens has donated 1,000 pack of seeds for indigenous South African trees to Earthwave South Africa to assist in the project's efforts to reduce Global Warming. The specially packaged seeds will be presented to those attending and participating in Earthwave's attempt on the Guinness World Record for the most surfers riding one wave at Muizenberg, Cape Town on Sunday, 2 September. See the web site for comprehensive details on the Earthwave project at
www.earthwave2007.com

and

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED...

This section is devoted to resource inventory tips and miscellaneous blurbs for whatever uses you care to make. Please limit contributions to one paragraph or so. Thanks, Mike Smith.

HELP!

FEEDBACK

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE – "Pay it forward!"  If you can help with any of the requests below, please take the time to do so. Your kind assistance will be appreciated and rewarded.

OPPORTUNITIES - Several readers of FIU are seeking employment in the forestry field. If you have jobs available and are in need of good people, please consider posting your vacancies in FIU (there is no charge for this service) and the following outlets:

http://forestry.about.com/education/forestry/msub14.htm

http://lists.topica.com/lists/wood

http://stateforesters.org/news.html

http://www.canadian-forests.com/job.html

http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/forest.html

http://www.devnetjobs.org

http://www.foresters.org/portal

http://www.forestryusa.com/jobs.htm

http://www.HigherEdJobs.com

http://www.joensuu.fi/metsatdk/gsforest/jobs_page.htm

http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobseekers/search_fellowships.shtml

http://www.safnet.org/careercenter/classifieds.cfm

.  POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN SPATIAL MODELING OF HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS - The Center for Applied Geographic Information Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking a post-doctoral associate whose research interests focus on the spatial dimensions of human-environment interactions, with emphasis on urbanizing metropolitan regions. Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2007 and will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. Start date is negotiable. To apply: please send an electronic application via e-mail with curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, and the names of three references to Dr. Ross Meentemeyer at
rkmeente@...
Include "Center Post-Doc Search" in the subject line. For more information, please feel free to contact Dr. Meentemeyer by e-mail.

.  PHD POSITIONS AND 1 POSTDOC POSITION IN ECOHYDROLOGY - The Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam is seeking motivated PhD candidates and a Postdoc to work within its interdisciplinary team. The PhD positions (50% BAT IIa or TV-L equivalent) are funded for 3 years and start 1 October 2007. The Postdoctoral position (100% BAT IIa or TV-L equivalent) is funded for 2 years and start 1 March 2008 although there is some flexibility. The work is part of the project "Linking spatial patterns of anecic earthworm populations, preferential flow pathways and agrochemical transport in rural catchments: an ecohydrological model approach" financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG). For more information, go to
Ansprechpartner: Boris Schröder, boris.schroeder@...

.  WWF INTERNATIONAL, DIRECTOR, FRESHWATER - WWF International has a new opening for an experienced Director, Freshwater for its Programme Division. The Director, Freshwater will act as a "hub" for Network conservation expertise and develop common policy positions, programmatic approaches and technical messaging. He/she will also engage with key institutions to ensure that WWF is known, respected and influential in key fora. Deadline 07 September 2007. For more information, go to:
http://www.ramsar.org/wn/w.n.vacancy_wwf_freshwater.pdf

.  MAINE URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROGRAM COORDINATOR – Maine, USA. Department of Conservation. Maine Forest Service --Augusta, Maine. This is professional, interdisciplinary work involved in administering Project Canopy, Maine's community forestry program, with the goal of promoting the economic, environmental, and aesthetic values of community forest ecosystems. For more information, contact Donald Mansius, Dir. Forest Policy & Mgmt at donald.j.mansius@...
or go to the web site at
www.maine.gov/bhr/state-jobs/how-to/direct.htm

.  BOLIVIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POST - The Alianza Boliviana para el Desarrollo Sostenible (the Bolivian Alliance for Sustainable Development is seeking a National Director based in La Paz.  For more information, go to:
http://www.abdes.org/formulario.doc or email:
info@...

HAVE YOU READ?

Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided.

BIODIVERSITY

 
.  Sadykova, Chinara; Pisupati, Balakrishna 2006. Biodiversity Conservation and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Kyrgyz Republic. UNU-IAS Working Paper No. 14745 p.
http://www.ias.unu.edu/resource_centre/147%20Chinara%20Sadykova_1.pdf

.  Third National Report of Belgium to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
http://bch-cbd.naturalsciences.be/belgium/implementation/documents/nationalreports/natrep3/art10.htm

CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING

.  Brewer, C. K.; Bush, R.; Berglund, D.; Barber, J. A.; Brown, S. R.  2006. Integrating Vegetation Classification, Mapping, and Strategic Inventory for Forest Management. In: Aguirre-Bravo, C.; Pellicane, Patrick J.; Burns, Denver P.; and Draggan, Sidney, Eds. 2006. Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere Proceedings RMRS-P-42CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S.Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 584-594.
http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/26544

Lokman Altun, Emin Zeki Baskent, Alkan Gunlu and Ali Ihsan Kadiogullari. Classification and mapping forest sites using geographic information system (GIS): a case study in Artvin Province. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Springer Netherlands.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q205645607124732/

Department of Agriculture,

CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON

.  da Fonseca GAB, Rodriguez CM, Midgley G, Busch J, Hannah L, et al. No Forest Left Behind. New research indicates that slowing tropical deforestation may play a much larger role in mitigating climate change than previously believed. PLoS Biology Vol. 5, No. 8, e216 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050216 
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050216

.  Brown, Sandra; Gaston, Greg. N.d. Tropical Africa: Land Use, Biomass, and Carbon Estimates for 1980.
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055.html

.  Emanuel, William R.; Shugart, Jr, Herman H. Carbon Sources and Sinks in Eastern U.S. Forests.
http://nigec.ucdavis.edu/publications/ar/annual99/midwestern/MWEmanuel0.htm

INVENTORY/MONITORING

.  Fuller, Douglas O. 2006. Tropical forest monitoring and remote sensing: A new era of transparency in forest governance? Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27: 15--29.
http://www.as.miami.edu/geography/climatology/SJTG2.pdf

.  Liski, Jari et al. 2006.Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922-2004 - an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modeling of biomass, litter and soil. Ann. For. Sci. 63:687-697.

11 p.
http://www.afs-journal.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/forest/pdf/2006/07/f6070.pdf

.  Muukkonen, Petteri. 2006. Forest inventory-based large-scale forest biomass and carbon budget assessment: new enhanced methods and use of remote sensing for verification. 49 p.
http://www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df30.pdf

.  Fearnside, P.M. 1997. Monitoring needs to transform Amazonian forest maintenance into a global warming mitigation option. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2(2-3): 285-302
http://philip.inpa.gov.br/publ_livres/Preprints/1997/MON-new.htm

.  Paul L. Ringold, Barry Mulder, Jim Alegria, Raymond L. Czaplewski, Tim Tolle, Kelly Burnett. Establishing a Regional Monitoring Strategy: The Pacific Northwest Forest Plan. Journal Environmental Management. Springer New York. ISSN 0364-152X (Print) 1432-1009 (Online). Volume 23, Number 2. February, 1999.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/j84fhfkq8l5y5hvj/

MISCELLANEOUS

.  Keeling, Helen C.; Phillips, Oliver L. 2007. The global relationship between forest productivity and biomass. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16 (5): 618--631. Abstract.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00314.x?journalCode=geb

.  Ennals, Alice M. et al. 2003. The Emerging Role of Forestry as an Important Tool in Poverty Alleviation: A role for Norwegian development assistance? 33 p.
http://www.nlh.no/noragric/publications/reports/NoragricRep11.pdf

REMOTE SENSING/GIS

.  Atsuko, Nonomura ; Kazadi, Sanga-Ngoie. N.d. Land cover types and thermal balance over Africa using GIS and NOAA/AVHRR data. 4 p.
http://www.igf.uni-osnabrueck.de/mitarbeiter/schiewe/papers/22.pdf

.  Merino de Miguel, Silvia. 1999. Geostatistics and Remote Sensing: Forestry Applications.
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~smerino/

.  Champion, I. et al. 2000. Coupling SAR data with forest growth models. International Journal of Remote Sensing.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Econtent=t713722504%7Edb=all

RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING

.  Hickler, Thomas et al. 2004. Using a generalized vegetation model to simulate vegetation dynamics in northeastern USA. Ecology, /85(2): 519--530.
http://face.env.duke.edu/PDF/eco852-04.pdf

Temesgen, Hailemariam, et al. 2007. Forest measurement and biometrics in forest management: Status and future needs of the Pacific Northwest USA. Journal of Forestry 105(5): 233-238.

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

.  L. Lipper. Forest degradation and food security. Unasylva. Issue number: 202. 2000. 71 pg
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x7273e/x7273e05.htm#P0_0

.  Worrell R. and Hampson A.. The influence of some forest operations on the sustainable management of forest soils— a review. Forestry 1997 70(1):61-85.
http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/1/61

.  de Sherbinin, Alex. 2003. The Role of Sustainability Indicators as a Tool for Assessing Territorial Environmental Competitiveness. 16 p.
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/pdf/IFRD_adesherbinin_paper_20nov03.pdf

CAPTURED ON VIDEO

Download videos from the web or from the sources provided.

 
.  HOW TREE DNA CAN HELP TRAP TREE THIEVES. (Courtesy: Earth Tones, produced in co-operation with Natural Resources Canada)
http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?Lang=En&n=4A981AEE-1

.  SOUNDING OFF - Using Acoustics to Estimate Wood Quality and Value along the Tree-to-Product Chain - David Briggs, Precision Forestry & Stand Management Cooperatives. IExplorer required.
http://www.ruraltech.org/video/2007/CFR_Centers_Review/08_briggs/Default.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=0

.  INDEPENDENT FOREST MONITORING IN CAMEROON
http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_player.php/305/english_stream_sm.flv

.  SURVIVE FALLING THROUGH ICE. A short video on how to survive falling through ice, including how to coach someone in that situation. It could save your life or that of somebody else. (Courtesy  Forest Inventory and Analysis at the North Central Research Station)
http://www.exn.ca/video/?Video=exn20020325-icewater.asx

YOU'RE INVITED!

For a more complete listing of upcoming inventory and monitoring related meetings, see:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infomeets/

http://www.agnic.org/mtg/index.html

http://www.asprs.org/asprs/meetings/calendar.html

http://www.conferencealerts.com/

http://www.efi.int/events

http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/resource/frames/agenda.html

http://www.fao.org/forestry/for/forc/free/education/courses.asp

http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar-of-meetings/

http://www.safnet.org/meetings/index.cfm

www.conferencealerts.com

 
.  6-7 September. IUFRO European Congress: Forests and Forestry in the Context of Rural Development. Warsaw, Poland. For more information, go to Piotr Paschalis-Jakubowicz, paschalis@... or the web site at
http://conference2007.wl.sggw.pl/

.  10 – 17 September 2007. 2007 International Workshop on Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development in Arid and Semi-arid Regions, Inner Mongolia, China. Contact email/website: Xiaoping YANG xpyang@... and http://www.iggcas.ac.cn/iw07/index.htm

.  10-12 September - Environmental and landscape aspects in short rotation forestry on agricultural land: a Nordic perspective. Enköping, Sweden
http://www.njf.nu/site/seminarRedirect.asp?intSeminarID=406&p=1004

.  17-21 September - Eighth AFRICAGIS Conference and Exhibition - Geo Information for Poverty Alleviation. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, at the Ouaga 2000 Convention Center.
http://www.africagis2007.org/anglais/index.php

.  20-21 September 2007. Introduction to GIS applications in Natural Resources with ArcGIS. Corvallis, Oregon, USA. For more information, contact: Michael Wing. +1-541-737-4009.
Michael.wing@...
or go to the web site at
www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fe/research/gis/workshop

.  26-27 September 2007. Practical applications of new technology for foresters: GPS. Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Contact: Joh Ashenbach. Email at
jaschenbach@... or go to the web site at
www.atterbury.com

.  18 - 21 September 2007. Natural Hazards and Natural Disturbances in Mountain Forests Challenges and Opportunities for Silviculture. Trento, Italy.
http://www.sisef.it/sisef/iufro.php

.  19-20 September 2007. EU-China Conference on Forest Law Enforcement and Governance. Beijing, China
http://www.eu-china-fleg.cn

.  22-23 September 2007. International Workshop on Bamboo and Rattan Sector Development-Industry, Trade, Investment and Policy, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. For more information contact:
http://www.inbar.int/news/news79.htm.

.  24 September – 6 October - International Summer School: Sustainability in Forestry and the Wood Industry. Technische Universität München Centre of Food, Landuse and Environmental Sciences. Weihenstephan, Germany. Contact: summerschool@... or go to
http://www.forst.wzw.tum.de/summerschool.

.  30 September – 3 October. Global Vision of Forestry in the Twenty First Century. Toronto, Canada. Organized by the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, on the occasion of its Centennial Celebrations. Contact: Shashi Kant, shashi.kant@...
http://www.forestry.utoronto.ca/centennial/congress.htm


.  30 September – 3 October. Global Vision of Forestry in the 21'st Century. Toronto, Canada. Organized by the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, on the occasion of its Centennial Celebrations. Contact: Shashi Kant, shashi.kant@...
http://www.forestry.utoronto.ca/centennial/congress.htm

.  4 – 6 October. 2007 Conference on High Technology for Greenhouse System Management.  Naples, Italy.
http://www.greensys2007.com/

.  7-9 October. Innovative approaches for sustainable management of forest ecosystems under a changing environment – FORCE. A summer school for early-stage researchers and Ph.D.-students taking place close to Freiburg (Germany) in the Black Forest. For detailed description, application information and available scholarships go to:
http://www.nfz-forestnet.org/?katid=214&lang=en

.  10 October. Opportunities and Impacts of Bioenergy Policies and Targets on the Forest and Other Sectors. Geneva, Switzerland. Policy Forum of the UNECE Timber Committee in conjunction with the FAO European Forestry Commission
http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/tc-sessions/tc-65/policyforum/welcome.htm

.  16 – 18 October. The Future of Forests in Asia and the Pacific: Outlook For 2020Chiang Mai, Thailand is shaping up.  Here is an update: The deadline for abstract submissions of voluntary papers has recently been extended to 30 June 2007, so get them in! The organisers have recently added a young professionals' essay competition, details on the website. There is now a conference website.  Check out the latest at http://www.fao.org/forestry/site/39701/en/

.  17-19 October. Bottlenecks, Solutions, and Priorities in the Context of Functions of Forest Resources. Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.forest2007.org/english/davet_yazisi.html

.  17-18 October. International conference entitled Enjoy and Protect our Forests. Fontainebleau, France. The Progress-project, financed under Interreg IIIB, has looked at how to reconcile recreation and conservation in forest management. Its case studies have been the New Forest in the UK and Fontainebleau in France. Project findings will be presented and discussed at a two-day, international conference. For more information, go to:
http://www.progress-eu.info/

.  22-26 October. The 8th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, will take place in Alotau, Papua New Guinea. The Conference's theme, 'Conservation serving communities, in a rapidly changing world' highlights the inextricable link between Pacific islanders and the natural environment, and the importance of strengthening networks in the climate of global change. Conference materials are available at www.sprep.org/roundtable.

.  22 - 26 October. Improvement and Culture of Eucalypts: Eucalypts and diversity: balancing productivity and sustainability an International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) IUFRO WP 2.08.03 '. Venue: International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. Visit
www.iufrodurban.org.za
or contact the Conference Organisers: Turners Conferences & Conventions (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 1935, Telephone: +27 31 332-1451, Durban, 4000 Fax: +27 31 368-6623, South Africa or E-mail: gills@...

.  23-27 October. Society of American Foresters 2007 National Convention - "SAF: Sustaining America's Forests". Portland, Oregon, USA.

.  23 - 25 October. Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Bar Harbor, USA. For more information, contact: ams@... or go to
http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/fainst/20077firenortheast.html

.  23-27 October. Society of American Foresters National Convention, Portland, Oregon, UDA. Nestled among rolling rivers, mountain ranges, and some of the most spectacular forests is Portland, Oregon – site of the 2007 SAF National Convention. Experience all the Pacific Northwest has to offer and find out why we believe the world's most productive forests are the backyards to those who call this area "home." We invite you attend this world-class conference October 23-27, 2007 and to join in discussions on Sustaining America's Forests and discovering sustainability in action! For more information, see
http://www.safconvention.org/natcon-07/

.  27 October-1 November . Columbian Forestry Tour. 2nd Colombian Forest Investment Tour. Cartagena and Bogota, Colombia, South America. For more information, go to:
www.WorldForestInvestment.com
Or contact
mark@...

.  October 28 - November 1 - Ottawa, Canada. The American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS – a society member of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute) are organizing an exciting conference around the theme of Our Common Borders - Safety, Security and the Environment through Remote Sensing.
http://www.asprs.org/ottawa07/index.html

.  29-30 October. The theme of Map Africa 2007 is 'Geospatial Capacity Building'. Southern Sun Cape Sun, Capetown, South Africa.
http://mapafrica.gisdevelopment.net/2007/index.htm

.  29 October - 2 November. The fifth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity will be hosted by the Norwegian government in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This year's conference is entitled 'Ecosystems and people - biodiversity for development'.
http://www.trondheimconference.org/

.  29 October – 2 November. IUFRO All-Division 5 Forest Products Conference. Taipei, China-Taipei. For more information, contact Chris Risbrudt, crisbrudt@..., or Conference Secretariat: iufro2007@.... Web site:
http://www.alldiv5iufro2007.org.tw/index.htm

.  5-7 November. ForestSat'07 conference. In Montpellier, in southern France. This conference is intended to bring together remote sensing and geographic information specialists with foresters and other forest stakeholders to foster exchanges towards an operational and fruitful use of remote sensing techniques and products for forest applications. For more information including important dates.  Go to:
http://forestsat07.teledetection.fr

.  21 -- 23 November 2007 - 3rd Global Summit on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. (GOSMAP-3). Chiang Mai, Thailand. Contact: Dr. Thaneeya Chetiyanukornkul, Secretariat International Centre, UNISERV, Chiang Mai University  239 Huay Keaw Road, Chiang Mai 50200 THAILAND. For more information, go to:
www.gosmap3-cmu.co.nr http://www.gosmap3-cmu.co.nr/

.  26-30 November 2007. An international course, Communication for urbanised forestry and green-space management. Noedebo, Denmark. This is the second edition of this course for urban woodland and green space planners and managers. Innovative approaches within media relations, marketing, lobbying and public involvement will be discussed. For further information, go to:
http://en.sl.life.ku.dk/kurserogefteruddannelse/kurser/communicationinurbanisedforestry.aspx.

3-14 December. United Nations Climate Change Conference. Bali, Indonesia.
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

.  10–14 December 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences. Moscone West, 800 Howard Street, Moscone South, Howard Street (between 3rd and 4th streets), San Francisco, CA, USA.
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/

.  7-10 February 2008. Bioenergy World Europe 2008 will be staged in Verona, Italy.
www.bioenergy-world.com

.  25-29 February, 2008. Tenth International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure. St. Augustine, Trinidad
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/
Call for papers is open until 15 September 2007.
http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/papers.html

.  3-7 March 2008. Underutilized Plants for food, nutrition, income and sustainable development, an International Symposium. Arusha, Tanzania.  Go to
http://www.icuc-iwmi.org/Symposium2008

.  1-4 April 2008. Linking Forest Optimisation and Inventory. Freising, Germany. IUFRO 4.02.00, 4.04.00. Contact: Thomas Knoke, knoke@... or go to the web site at
http://w3.forst.tu-muenchen.de/~waldbau/lifo2008/

.  15 –18 April 2008. 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research. Adelaide, Australia. For more information contact events@... or go to the web site at
http://www.waterdownunder2008.com/

28 April-2 May, 2008. The American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2008 Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA.
http://www.asprs.org/portland08/


.  15 – 19 September 2008. Methodology of Forest Insect and Disease Survey in Central Europe. Strbske Pleso (High Tatras), Slovakia. IUFRO 7.03.10. For more information, go to
http://www.iufro.org/auth/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70300/70310/
Contact: Andrej Kunca - kunca@...

conference in October to be held in

WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS

For a complete listing of links go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/

.  Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/English/interactive.maps/cameroon.htm

.  Conservation International: New Study Warns Limited Carbon Market Puts 20 Percent of Tropical Forest at Risk. Preventive Credits Needed for Incentive to Protect Vital Carbon Sinks
http://web.conservation.org/xp/news/press_releases/2007/081407.xml

.  Vegetation - Guidelines for site-based survey
http://www.daff.gov.au/brs/forest-veg/asls-handbook/field

.  A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

2007-09-08 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

SOME NEWS

Now online: Unasylva 226/227 – From InfoSylva - FAO’s longest-running periodical celebrates its 60th anniversary with a special double issue, reprinting material from every decade of Unasylva’s rich history. The selected articles illustrate how "Weaving knowledge into development", the slogan from the March 2007 session of the FAO Committee on Forestry, characterizes what Unasylva has been doing for 60 years. Collectively, these articles document the evolution of forestry and of FAO’s activities in forestry – and some of the earliest articles may surprise readers by anticipating concepts that we thought were new. See: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e00.htm

UNECE/FAO Forest Products Statistics for 2006 – From Alex McCusker. UNECE. The Timber Section has released data on production and trade of roundwood, sawnwood, panels, pulp and paper for the year 2006 for countries in the UNECE region of Europe, North America and the CIS. Data for 2006 are provisional and subject to revision later this year. These data have been made available to the forestry community since the end of July in the following ways:
1) Inside the "Forest Products Annual Market Review" we have published sub-regional tables and graphs. The electronic version is available at http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/fpama/2007/fpamr2007.pdf and the printed version should be available within two weeks.
2) The statistical annex to the Annual Market Review, available at http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/fpama/2007/table-list-2007.htm, shows data for the main product groups for all sub-regions within the ECE and selected countries.
3) The complete dataset for 2002-2006, covering all products and all countries which supplied data, is available at http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/mis/fps.htm. This is in the same format as the tables published in the Timber Bulletin series "Forest Products Statistics" and is meant to provide complete background data for the tables and analysis presented in the "Annual Market Review". and, since the end of August,
4) The complete database, 1964-2006, is available at http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/database/timber.zip. This flatfile is designed to show all historical data available in a format suitable for study and in-depth analysis.
The data are currently being processed at FAO Rome and will also be made available through the FAOSTAT server. A list of all UNECE/FAO forest products data can be found at http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/DataAndStats.html. Questions and comments should be directed to stats.timber@...

West Virginia Trees – from Benktesh Sharma via Nepalese Foresters list – “Please find a news source about a publication on Trees of West Virginia which we put together at West Virginia this year. http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/5856/ and http://www.da.wvu.edu/show_article.php?&story_id=29106&archive_date=2007-07-11

Upgraded Website - Harry Wiant has upgraded his website ( http://www.geocities.com/harryvwiant ) and it now includes a pdf file with his 1963 dissertation, "The Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Under a Mixed Forest Plantation" and a pdf file with his technical publications, mostly dealing with forest inventory and silviculture.

PUBLICATIONS – I ran across some of the following while doing a search for publications on environmental changes in Africa. Perhaps some may be of interest to you.

Aguirre-Bravo, C.; et al. Eds. 2006. Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings RMRS-P-42CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 990 p. http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p042.pdf.

Animal Welfare Institute 2005? Endangered Species Handbook. http://www.endangeredspecieshandbook.org/

Barea-Azcón, J.M., et al. 2007. Surveying carnivores at large spatial scales: a comparison of four broad-applied methods. Biodivers. Conserv. 16(4):1213-1230. Abstract. http://www.springerlink.com/content/642837359p176642/?p=82698d08bd5d44419541f6af3138fb01&pi=25

Finkl, C.W., 2004. Coastal classification: Systematic approaches to consider in the development of a comprehensive system. Journal of Coastal Research, 20(1), 166–213. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. http://www.coastalplanning.net/coastal_geology/Papers/coas_20_142_166_213_REV.pdf

Herrmann, S.M.; Hutchinson, C.F. 2005. The changing contexts of the desertification debate. Journal of Arid Environments 63: 538–555. http://www.infra.kth.se/courses/1H1142/attachments/paper2.pdf

Ibe, A. C., and L. F. Awosika. 1991. Sea level rise impact on African coastal zones. In: A change in the weather: African perspectives on climate change, ed. S.H. Omide and C. Juma, 10 5-12. Nairobi, Kenya: African Centre for Technology Studies. http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/docs/004-153/004-153.html

Jürgens, Norbert 1997. Floristic biodiversity and history of African arid regions. Biodiversity and Conservation 6(3): 495-514. http://www.springerlink.com/content/x16402g116324204/

Kotecha, Kishore. 2007. Suggested Measures that could be adopted to further strengthen the Protection of Asiatic Lions and Gir Biodiversity. ZOOS PRINT magazine. XXII(9): 1-13. http://www.zoosprint.org/showMagazine.asp

Leighton-Jones, Peter. N.d. Carnivore biodiversity and distribution in continental Africa: Implications for Conservation. 65 p. http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/students/ejournal/Biolog-e/uploads/peterleightonjones.pdf

Richardson, D.M; Thuiller, W. 2007. Home away from home - objective mapping of high-risk source areas for plant introductions. Divers. Distrib. 13(3):299-312. Abstract. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00337.x

Smith, Olanrewaju B.; Koala, Saidou. 1999. Desertification: Myths And Realities. Canadian Science Writers' Annual General Meeting. May 27-29 1999 http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/corpdocs/113273/MythsRealities2.htm

UNEP. 1999. Regional Overview of Land-based Sources and Activities Affecting the Coastal and Associated Freshwater Environment in the West and Central African Region. UNEP/ GPA Co-ordination Office & West and Central Africa Action Plan, Regional Co-ordinating Unit (1999). 110 pp. http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/bitstream/1834/312/1/UNEP171.pdf

URLS

Forestry Journals published in Nepal - http://www.forestrynepal.org/publications/publications/forestry_journals_published_in_nepal

Lawn Surface Area in the United States http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17094

The Global Map Data – From the SDI Asia Newsletter. The Global Map Data have 8 thematic layers. They are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage, Population Centres, Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. These layers were produced in either vector or raster data. The layers in vector representation are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage and Population Centres. The layers in raster representation are Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. Vector data and raster data will be downloaded separately. And, raster data can be downloaded separately by every layer. http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi

What New Research Is There On Monitoring Land-Cover Change http://www.gcrio.org/ocp96/hilited1.html

NEWSLETTERS

BCN - Biological Conservation Newsletter September 2007 - Issue No. 273 is now available at http://ravenel.si.edu/bcn/issue/latest.cfm 

 The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Regional Newsletters for September are now posted on the GSDI home page at http://www.gsdi.org. You may also download them directly as follows:

 SDI-Latin America and Caribbean Newsletter

http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDILACv4n9Espanol.pdf (Spanish)

http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDILACv4n9English.pdf (English)

 SDI-AsiaPacific Newsletter http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAPv4n9.pdf

 SDI-Africa Newsletter http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n9.pdf

 Past and current SDI Regional newsletters are also accessible in the archives at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

22-26 October 2007. Measuring Landcover Change and its Impact on Endangered Species. Smithsonian Conservation and Research Center, Front Royal, Virginia, USA. This one-week advanced GIS and remote sensing course provides conservationists with an opportunity to learn how GIS and remote sensing can be used to assess the conservation status of endangered species. Participants will be provided with their own desktop computer for all lab exercises. During the hands-on exercises participants will use the Internet, ArcMap, ArcMap Spatial Analyst, ERDAS Imagine, Fragstats, and other spatial analysis programs. Instructors will lead participants step-by-step through the process of: conducting a regional conservation assessment using GIS to determine critical conservation areas for an endangered species; acquiring multi-date satellite imagery to quantify land cover change and to map the extent of the remaining habitat; and using landscape analysis to determine optimal landscape configurations for conserving the endangered species. See: http://www.nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/advanced_GIS/ or contact Joe Reistetter (giscourse@...), 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630 USA. Tel. +1-540-635-6535 (GIS Lab): 1-540-635-6506 (FAX)

GIS Educational Opportunity - Saied Pirasteh writes, “I am very pleased to inform you that Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand in collaboration with University of Salzburg, Austria is launching online distance education program in Geographic Information Systems and Science:
a) Two Year Masters
b) One Year Professional Diploma
The important points:
1) New Session starts 15 September 2007
2) Course materials prepared by top professors around the world
3) Software for GIS and Image Processing provided Free to the students
4) Very convenient for working professionals to upgrade their knowledge of the GIS and also acquire degree / diploma from University of Salzburg, Austria
5) Orientation for new students scheduled on 8 September 2007 in AIT, Bangkok
For more information please visit: http://www.unigis.net/AIT_Bangkok. You can register online. If any difficulty, please e-mail me for assistance at moshaver1380@... or unigis.office@.... I will be glad to reply any other query at moshaver1380@... . Please forward this e-mail to anyone who may be interested to obtain reputed degree in GIS. This is a very successful unique online method of learning and useful for those who are working professional.”

-- H. Gyde Lund Forest Information Services
6238 Settlers Trail Place
Gainesville, VA 20155-1374 USA
Tel: +1-703-743-1755
Email: gyde<at>comcast.net URL: http://www.forestinfoservices.com

Dear ALL,

Does any one know any publication related to the economic valuation of natural history museums or collections?

Such matter is important for institutions that get their income from other entities, not from their own pocket, and is more important for those countries like Colombia where the government try to cut off all the resources to its dependences.

Regards,

John Pulgarin

Dear Colleagues,

Anyone interested in applying for the P-4 Forestry Officer (Forest
Products Trade and Marketing) Position at FAO Rome is invited to
inspect the professional vacancy announcement (1893-FOI) and apply. If
you are interested and wish to apply, please follow the application
instructions exactly.

Information on the position can be found at the following URL:

http://www.fao.org/VA/PROF/1893foi_en.htm

2007-09-15 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

Economic Value of Natural History Museums – From Forest List - John Pulgarin writes “Does any one know any publication related to the economic valuation of natural history museums or collections? Such matter is important for institutions that get their income from other entities, not from their own pocket, and is more important for those countries like Colombia where the government try to cut off all the resources to its dependences.” You may contact John at jalexanderpulgarin@...

Contributor for chapter on Optical Remote Sensing Sought – The ISPRS Working Group VIII/11 is in the process of writing a text on remote sensing of forests. They are looking for a possible contributor for a section on optical remote sensing based on satellite data from North or South America. For further information, contact: Matthias Dees at matthias.dees@... or Barbara Koch at barbara.koch@....

Interesting Environmental Facts sought on Africa Countries. Hi  -I am working with UNEP to help develop an atlas of Africa's changing environments. We will have short sections devoted to each African nation. We would like to include a unique and positive fact environmental fact about each country - such as "Botswana has the largest elephant population in the world." We really need assistance in this. If you know of an interesting fact for a specific county, would you please email it to me? Thank you in advance for your kind help. Cheers. Gyde (gyde@...).

Information Sought on Gorilla Conservation - Dr.Syed Shehzad Ahmed is seeking any information on Gorilla Conservation or on any other endangered animal in the Rwanda and the Dem.Rep.of Congo area, If you have information to share, please contact Syed at akif1999@...

P-4 Forestry Officer - (Forest Products Trade and Marketing) FAO Rome. See http://www.fao.org/VA/PROF/1893foi_en.htm. From Nelson Wong via the IFL list

GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure) Newsletter for 2007 GSDI Newsletter is now available for download at http://gsdi.org/newsletters/GSDI/GSDInewsletterSept07.pdf or through the web site at http://gsdi.org/newsletters.asp

ISTF (International Society of Tropical Foresters) News -- September 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 3) issue is now available at http://www.istf-bethesda.org/members/Noticias-News/News/SEPT2007.pdf. From: Pat Holmgren, ISTF.

MEETINGS From Chrisy Amushi from the Conserve Africa List

24 September 2007. UN high-level ministerial meeting on climate change: A high-level ministerial meeting on climate change is scheduled to take place at UN Headquarters in New York, USA during the UN General Assembly session. For more information, contact: Office of the President of the UN General Assembly; tel: +1-212-963-7555; fax: +1-212-963-3301; e-mail: secretariat@...; internet: http://www.un.org/climatechange/2007highlevel/index.shtml

12 - 16 November 2007. Twenty-seventh session of the intergovernmental panel on climate change: IPCC-27, which will take place in Valencia, Spain, will focus on the adoption of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. For more information, contact: Rudie Bourgeois, IPCC Secretariat; tel: +41-22-730-8208; fax: +41-22-7-30-8025/13; e-mail: IPCC-Sec@...; internet: http://www.ipcc.ch/meet/27session.htm

3 - 14 December 2007. Thirteenth conference of the parties to the unfccc and third meeting of the parties to the kyoto protocol: UNFCCC COP 13 and the Kyoto Protocol COP/MOP 3 will take place in Bali, Indonesia. These meetings will coincide with the twenty-seventh meetings of the UNFCCC's subsidiary bodies and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments from Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol. COP 13 and COP/MOP 3 are expected to be accompanied by a UNFCCC Dialogue on Long-Term Cooperative Action on Climate Change and various other events. For more information, contact: tel: +49-228-815-1000; fax: +49-228-815-1999; e-mail: secretariat@...; internet: http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

19 - 30 May 2008. Ninth conference of the parties to the convention on biological diversity: CBD COP-9 will take placein Bonn, Germany, and is being organized by the CBD Secretariat. For more information, contact: CBD Secretariat; tel: +1-514-288-2220; fax: +1-514-288-6588; e-mail: secretariat@cbd.int; internet: http://www.cbd.int/doc/meeting.aspx?mtg=COP-09

2009. World Association of Soil and Water Conservation meeting: This meeting, which will be held within Tara National Park, Serbia, is scheduled for the first half of 2009. The meeting will be organized by the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWC) and the Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade University. For more information, contact: Miodrag Zlatiæ; email mizlatic@...; internet: http://www.waswc.org.

Boyd, D.S. et al. 2002. Evaluation of approaches for forest cover estimation in the Pacific Northwest, USA, using remote sensing. Applied Geography 22 (2002) 375–392. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V7K-478RHWP-4-17&_cdi=5845&_user=126770&_orig=browse&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2002&_sk=999779995&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkzk&_valck=1&md5=1cf2c4d57e0b0421abdc8536b9dc43b9&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

Davies, Glyn ed. 2002. African Forest Biodiversity: A Field Survey Manual for Vertebrates. 173 p. http://www.earthwatch.org/atf/cf/%7BF4CFBC9F-3318-4DA3-B3FB-DACCC81855CB%7D/African_forest-english.pdf

Hansen, M. C. et al. 2003 Global percent tree cover at a spatial resolution of 500 meters: first results of the MODIS vegetation continuous fields algorithm. Earth Interactions. http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/guide/technical/MOD44B_User_Guide_v3.0.0.pdf

Hawkey, Roy. 2002. Systematically Speaking: How Do Natural History Museum Web Sites Represent Science? http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/papers/hawkey/hawkey.html

Hyde, Peter et al. 2006. Mapping forest structure for wildlife habitat analysis using multi-sensor (LiDAR, SAR/InSAR, ETM+, Quickbird) synergy. . http://giscenter.isu.edu/training/pdf/Geotech_seminar/Hyde_et_al_2006.pdf

Kemal Unggul Prakoso, 2006. Tropical forest mapping using polarimetric and interferometric SAR data. A case study in Indonesia. Doctoral thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands - with references - with summaries in English and Dutch. 141 p. http://library.wur.nl/wda/dissertations/dis3877.pdf

Kuplich, Tatiana Mora 2001. Temporal, spatial, spectral and polarisation characteristics of the SAR backscatter from regenerating tropical forests. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. http://www.dsr.inpe.br/dsr/tmk/

Lee, R.; Balick, M. 2007. The Value of Museum Collections in the 21st Century. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 3(2): 145-148. Listing. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1550830706005660.

P. Mayaux, et al. 2003. A Land Cover Map of Africa. 56 p. http://www-tem.jrc.it/PDF_publis/2003/Mayaux_EUR%20GLC_2003.pdf

Pahari, Krishna; Murai, Shunji. 1997. Simulation of Forest Cover Map for 2025 and Beyond using Remote Sensing and GIS. http://www.gisdevelopment.net/aars/acrs/1997/ts12/ts12003pf.htm

Pettitt, Charles. 1991. What Price Natural History Collections, or 'Why do we need all these bloody mice?' [publ. 1991 in Mus. Journal 91 (8): 25-28] http://fenscore.man.ac.uk/Uses/cwpmusjpap.htm

Philippe Mayaux, 2005. Tropical forest cover change in the 1990s and options for future monitoring. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1569459

Prakoso, Kemal U.et al. Radar tree mapping and fieplp methodology to support sustainable forest management. 12 p. http://www.tropenbos.nl/files/16%20Kemal.PDF

Prakoso, Kemal Unggul.2002. Assessment of InSAR tree mapping accuracy in tropical rain forests. In: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications, 11-14 September, 2001 in Sheffield, UK. Edited by A. Wilson, scientific coordination by S. Quegan. ESA SP-475, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-741-0, 2002, p. 383 – 388. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2002ESASP.475..383P&amp;data_type=PDF_HIGH&amp;whole_paper=YES&amp;type=PRINTER&amp;filetype=.pdf

Santos, J. R.et al. 2004. Tropical forest biomass mapping from dual frequency SAR interferometry (x and p- bands). http://www.isprs.org/istanbul2004/comm7/papers/216.pdf

Suarez, Andrew V.; Tsutsui, Neil D. 2004. The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society. BioScience 66-74. http://www.life.uiuc.edu/suarez/SuarezTsutsui2004Biosci.pdf

Suga, Y.; Takeuchi, S. 2000, Application of JERS-1 InSAR for monitoring deforestation of tropical rain forest. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE International 1(2000):432 – 434. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/defdeny.jsp?url=/iel5/6913/18663/00860555.pdf?code=18

Wagner, Wolfgang et al. 2003. Large-scale mapping of boreal forest in SIBERIA using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data. Remote Sensing of Environment 85 (2003) 125–144. http://www.fao.org/gtos/doc/ECVs/ECV-T12-biomass-ref16-Wagner.pdf

White, R.P., S. Murray, M. Rohweder. 2000. Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Grassland Ecosystems. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute. 100 p. http://www.wri.org/biodiv/pubs_description.cfm?pid=3057

White, Robin P;. Vanasselt, Wendy. 2000. Grasslands in Pieces: Modification and Conversion Take a Toll. EarthTrends: Featured Topic. Adapted from Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Grassland Ecosystems. 4 p. http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/feature/for_fea_modifications.pdf

Wong, CM, Williams, CE, Pittock, J, Collier, U and P Schelle. (2007). World’s top 10 rivers at risk. WWF International. Gland, Switzerland. 52 p. http://assets.panda.org/downloads/worldstop10riversatriskfinalmarch13.pdf

A Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information Soil Geographic Databases http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_digital.html#ssafrica

Capacity Building for Gorilla Conservation in Range States http://cres.sandiegozoo.org/projects/ce_gorilla_capacity.html

Conservation Issues - http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Gorilla/consergor.html

Development of a CMS Agreement for the Conservation of Gorillas http://www.naturalsciences.be/science/projects/gorilla/intro

Digital Soil Map of the World and Derived Soil Properties on CD-Rom DSMW Map Sheets -The Digital Soil Map of the World consists of ten map sheets: Africa, North America, Central America, Europe, Central and Northeast Asia, Far East, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. http://www.fao.org/AG/agl/agll/dsmw.htm

ESA maps satellite help for gorilla guardians http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMIYZ1A6BD_index_0.html

Forest Fragmentation by Roads in Central Africa http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/forests-grasslands-drylands/map-217.html

Global Soils map - http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/mapindex/order.html. Source: FAO-UNESCO, Soil Map of the World, digitized by ESRI. Soil climate map, USDA-NRCS, Soil Survey Division, World Soil Resources, Washington D.C. produced 1997 revised 2005.

GRFM: Global Rain Forest Mapping Project http://directory.eoportal.org/info_GRFMGlobalRainForestMappingProject.html

Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of the Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli). 40 p. http://www.primate-sg.org/PDF/CRG.Action.Plan.pdf

Satellite Imagery - Decision Support Tool for Gorilla Conservation - http://www.unesco.org/science/remotesensing/?id_page=79&lang=en

Who Is the Beauty and Who Is the Beast? http://www.berggorilla.de/english/gjournal/texte/32mensch-gorilla-robbins.html

DO YOU LIKE BLUEGRASS? -While not related to inventory or monitoring, Forestry Professor and my long time friend, Harry Wiant, ,announces that he has placed the CD CHORDWOOD IN TALL TIMBER – a collection of bluegrass music preformed by a very talented group of foresters, on the web. To see contents, visit: http://www.geocities.com/harryvwiant/#Cord .

Cheers.  Gyde

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Journal of Applied Ecology
Volume 44, Issue 5, October 2007

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Priority contribution
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Effects of culling on spatial associations of Mycobacterium bovis
infections in badgers and cattle
HELEN E JENKINS, ROSIE WOODROFFE, CHRISTL A DONNELLY, D.R COX, W.T
JOHNSTON, F.J BOURNE, C.L CHEESEMAN, R.S CLIFTON-HADLEY, G GETTINBY, P
GILKS, R.G HEWINSON, J.P MCINERNEY, W.I MORRISON
Page 897
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Bird population responses to environmental change
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Determinants of interspecific variation in population declines of
birds after exposure to radiation at Chernobyl
A. P. MOLLER, T. A. MOUSSEAU
Page 909
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ui=8mfr&af=T


The effect of supplementary winter seed food on breeding populations
of farmland birds: evidence from two large-scale experiments
GAVIN M. SIRIWARDENA, DANAE K. STEVENS, GUY Q. A. ANDERSON, JULIET A.
VICKERY, NEIL A. CALBRADE, STEPHEN DODD
Page 920
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01339.x?ai=t3&\
ui=8mfr&af=T


Linking agricultural policies to population trends of Swedish farmland
birds in different agricultural regions
JOHAN WRETENBERG, AKE LINDSTROM, SOREN SVENSSON, TOMAS PART
Page 933
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Quantifying the impact of longline fisheries on adult survival in the
black-footed albatross
SOPHIE VERAN, OLIVIER GIMENEZ, ELIZABETH FLINT, WILLIAM L KENDALL,
PAUL F. DOHERTY JR, JEAN-DOMINIQUE LEBRETON
Page 942
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01346.x?ai=t3&\
ui=8mfr&af=T


Using adaptive management to determine requirements of re-introduced
populations: the case of the New Zealand hihi
DOUG P. ARMSTRONG, ISABEL CASTRO, RICHARD GRIFFITHS
Page 953
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Finite study areas and vital rates: sampling effects on estimates of
spotted owl survival and population trends
GUTHRIE S. ZIMMERMAN, R.J. GUTIERREZ, WILLIAM S. LAHAYE
Page 963
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ui=8mfr&af=T


The relative effects of raptor predation and shooting on overwinter
mortality of grey partridges in the United Kingdom
M WATSON, N. J AEBISCHER, G. R POTTS, J. A EWALD
Page 972
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Assessments of habitat preferences and quality depend on spatial scale
and metrics of fitness
ANNA D. CHALFOUN, THOMAS E. MARTIN
Page 983
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Monitoring and predicting insect populations
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Reduced-effort schemes for monitoring butterfly populations
D. B. ROY, P. ROTHERY, T. BRERETON
Page 993
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The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for
fruit-feeding butterflies in the Brazilian Amazon
JOS BARLOW, WILLIAM L. OVERAL, IVANEI S. ARAUJO, TOBY A. GARDNER,
CARLOS A. PERES
Page 1001
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Cereal aphid populations in non-crop habitats show strong density
dependence
RICCARDO BOMMARCO, SIMON WETTERLIND, ROLAND SIGVALD
Page 1013
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.0021-8901.2007.01332.x?ai=t3&\
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Predicting plant population and community dynamics
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Positive linear relationship between productivity and diversity:
evidence from the Eurasian Steppe
YONGFEI BAI, JIANGUO WU, QINGMIN PAN, JIANHUI HUANG, QIBING WANG,
FUSHENG LI, ALEXANDER BUYANTUYEV, XINGGUO HAN
Page 1023
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Modelling the long-term consequences of crop-wild relative
hybridization: a case study using four generations of hybrids
DANNY A. P HOOFTMAN, MAAIKE J. DE JONG, J. GERARD B OOSTERMEIJER, HANS
(J.) C. M DEN NIJS
Page 1035
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Assembly of weed communities along a crop diversity gradient
RICHARD G. SMITH, KATHERINE L. GROSS
Page 1046
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Remote sensing-based predictors improve distribution models of rare,
early successional and broadleaf tree species in Utah
N. E. ZIMMERMANN, T. C. EDWARDS, G. G. MOISEN, T. S. FRESCINO, J. A.
BLACKARD
Page 1057
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Predicting and managing kangaroo populations
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Spatial patterns of kangaroo density across the South Australian
pastoral zone over 26years: aggregation during drought and suggestions
of long distance movement
ANTHONY R. POPLE, STUART R. PHINN, NORBERT MENKE, GORDON C. GRIGG,
HUGH P. POSSINGHAM, CLIVE McALPINE
Page 1068
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The Viggers & Hearn conundrum: a kangaroo home range study with no
implications for land management
JENNIFER K. MARTIN, GRAEME COULSON, JULIAN DI STEFANO, EUAN G.
RITCHIE, ANDREW GREENFIELD, HELEN CATANCHIN, LISA N. EVANS
Page 1080
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The kangaroo conundrum remains
KAREN L VIGGERS, DAVID B LINDENMAYER
Page 1086
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Global Change Biology
Volume 13, Issue 9, September 2007

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Original Articles
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Including species interactions in risk assessments for global change
R. W. SUTHERST, G. F. MAYWALD, A. S. BOURNE
Page 1843
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Influences of species, latitudes and methodologies on estimates of
phenological response to global warming
CAMILLE PARMESAN
Page 1860
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An elevational shift in butterfly species richness and composition
accompanying recent climate change
ROBERT J. WILSON, DAVID GUTIERREZ, JAVIER GUTIERREZ, VICTOR J. MONSERRAT
Page 1873
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Can warm climate-related structure of littoral predator assemblies
weaken the clear water state in shallow lakes?
MARIANA MEERHOFF, JUAN M. CLEMENTE, FRANCO TEIXEIRA de MELLO, CARLOS
IGLESIAS, ASGER R. PEDERSEN, ERIK JEPPESEN
Page 1888
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Earlier onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in lakes of the
temperate zone in a warmer climate
FRANK PEETERS, DIETMAR STRAILE, ANDREAS LORKE, DAVID M. LIVINGSTONE
Page 1898
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A biological consequence of reducing Arctic ice cover: arrival of the
Pacific diatom Neodenticula seminae in the North Atlantic for the
first time in 800000 years
PHILIP C. REID, DAVID G. JOHNS, MARTIN EDWARDS, MICHEL STARR, MICHEL
POULIN, PAULI SNOEIJS
Page 1910
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The disappearance of relict permafrost in boreal north America:
Effects on peatland carbon storage and fluxes
M. R. TURETSKY, R. K. WIEDER, D. H. VITT, R. J. EVANS, K. D. SCOTT
Page 1922
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The legacy of harvest and fire on ecosystem carbon storage in a north
temperate forest
CHRISTOPHER M. GOUGH, CHRISTOPH S. VOGEL, KATHERINE H. HARROLD,
KRISTEN GEORGE, PETER S. CURTIS
Page 1935
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Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on amino acid and
NH4+-N cycling in a temperate pine ecosystem
KIRSTEN S. HOFMOCKEL, WILLIAM H. SCHLESINGER, ROBERT B. JACKSON
Page 1950
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The impact of elevated CO2, increased nitrogen availability and
biodiversity on plant tissue quality and decomposition
JOHANNES M. H. KNOPS, SHAHID NAEEM, P. B. REICH
Page 1960
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Soil greenhouse gas fluxes and global warming potential in four
high-yielding maize systems
M. A. A. ADVIENTO-BORBE, M. L. HADDIX, D. L. BINDER, D. T. WALTERS, A.
DOBERMANN
Page 1972
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Soil organic carbon stocks in China and changes from 1980s to 2000s
ZUBIN XIE, JIANGUO ZHU, GANG LIU, GEORG CADISCH, TOSHIHIRO HASEGAWA,
CHUNMEI CHEN, HUIFENG SUN, HAOYAN TANG, QING ZENG
Page 1989
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Basal rates of soil respiration are correlated with photosynthesis in
a mixed temperate forest
D. A. SAMPSON, I. A. JANSSENS, J. CURIEL YUSTE, R. CEULEMANS
Page 2008
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An oxygen-mediated positive feedback between elevated carbon dioxide
and soil organic matter decomposition in a simulated anaerobic wetland
AMELIA A. WOLF, BERT G. DRAKE, JOHN E. ERICKSON, J. PATRICK MEGONIGAL
Page 2036
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Environmental Microbiology
Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2007

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Genomics update
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Dark matter in a deep-sea vent and in human mouth
Michael Y. Galperin
Page 2385
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Minireview
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New ways to break an old bond: the bacterial carbon-phosphorus
hydrolases and their role in biogeochemical phosphorus cycling
John P. Quinn, Anna N. Kulakova, Natalie A. Cooley, John W. McGrath
Page 2392
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Research articles
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Rapid growth rates of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in the ocean
Michal Koblizek, Michal Masin, Josephine Ras, Alex J. Poulton, Ondrej
Prasil
Page 2401
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Bacteriophage ecology in a small community sewer system related to
their indicative role in sewage pollution of drinking water
Efrat Gino, Jeana Starosvetsky, Robert Armon
Page 2407
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Response of Alteromonadaceae and Rhodobacteriaceae to glucose and
phosphorus manipulation in marine mesocosms
Elke Allers, Laura Gomez-Consarnau, Jarone Pinhassi, Josep M. Gasol,
Karel Simek, Jakob Pernthaler
Page 2417
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High intraspecific recombination rate in a native population of
Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique (SAR11)
Kevin L. Vergin, H. James Tripp, Larry J. Wilhelm, Dee R. Denver,
Michael S. Rappe, Stephen J. Giovannoni
Page 2430
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Global survey of diversity among environmental saltwater
Bacteriovoracaceae
Silvia A. Pineiro, O. Colin Stine, Ashvini Chauhan, Susan R. Steyert,
Richard Smith, Henry N. Williams
Page 2441
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ui=8mfr&af=T


An annual cycle of dimethylsulfoniopropionate-sulfur and leucine
assimilating bacterioplankton in the coastal NW Mediterranean
Maria Vila-Costa, Jarone Pinhassi, Cecilia Alonso, Jakob Pernthaler,
Rafel Simo
Page 2451
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Phylogenetic identity, growth-response time and rRNA operon copy
number of soil bacteria indicate different stages of community succession
Pravin Malla Shrestha, Matthias Noll, Werner Liesack
Page 2464
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa cupA-encoded fimbriae expression is regulated
by a GGDEF and EAL domain-dependent modulation of the intracellular
level of cyclic diguanylate
Andree Meissner, Verena Wild, Roger Simm, Manfred Rohde, Christian
Erck, Florian Bredenbruch, Michael Morr, Ute Romling, Susanne Haussler
Page 2475
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The natural furanone
(5Z)-4-bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone disrupts quorum
sensing-regulated gene expression in Vibrio harveyi by decreasing the
DNA-binding activity of the transcriptional regulator protein luxR
Tom Defoirdt, Carol M. Miyamoto, Thomas K. Wood, Edward A. Meighen,
Patrick Sorgeloos, Willy Verstraete, Peter Bossier
Page 2486
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In situ lateral transfer of symbiosis islands results in rapid
evolution of diverse competitive strains of mesorhizobia suboptimal in
symbiotic nitrogen fixation on the pasture legume Biserrula pelecinus
L. Kemanthi G. Nandasena, Graham W. O'Hara, Ravi P. Tiwari, Ertug
Sezmis, John G. Howieson
Page 2496
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Environmental significance of O-demethylation of chloroanisoles by
soil bacterial isolates as a mechanism that improves the overall
biodegradation of chlorophenols
Mandira Goswami, Eliseo Recio, Sonia Campoy, Juan Francisco Martin,
Juan-Jose R. Coque
Page 2512
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Ammonia-oxidizing bacterial community composition in estuarine and
oceanic environments assessed using a functional gene microarray
Bess B. Ward, Damien Eveillard, Julie D. Kirshtein, Joshua D. Nelson,
Mary A. Voytek, George A. Jackson
Page 2522
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ui=8mfr&af=T


The phylogeny of endolithic microbes associated with marine basalts
Olivia U. Mason, Ulrich Stingl, Larry J. Wilhelm, Markus M.
Moeseneder, Carol A. Di Meo-Savoie, Martin R. Fisk, Stephen J. Giovannoni
Page 2539
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Dynamics of the hydrocarbon-degrading Cycloclasticus bacteria during
mesocosm-simulated oil spills
Eva Teira, Itziar Lekunberri, Josep M. Gasol, Mar Nieto-Cid, Xose
Anton Alvarez-Salgado, Francisco G. Figueiras
Page 2551
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Incidence of lysogeny within temperate and extreme soil environments
Kurt E. Williamson, Mark Radosevich, David W. Smith, K. Eric Wommack
Page 2563
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Bacterial diversity in soil enrichment cultures amended with 2
(2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxy) propionic acid (mecoprop)
Dalia Zakaria, Hilary Lappin-Scott, Sara Burton, Corinne Whitby
Page 2575
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Modelling the vertical distribution of Prochlorococcus and
Synechococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Ocean
Sophie Rabouille, Christopher A. Edwards, Jonathan P. Zehr
Page 2588
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Microbial response to salinity change in Lake Chaka, a hypersaline
lake on Tibetan plateau
Hongchen Jiang, Hailiang Dong, Bingsong Yu, Xinqi Liu, Yiliang Li,
Shanshan Ji, Chuanlun L. Zhang
Page 2603
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Self-produced extracellular stimuli modulate the Pseudomonas
aeruginosa swarming motility behaviour
Julien Tremblay, Anne-Pascale Richardson, Francois Lepine, Eric Deziel
Page 2622
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Brief reports
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Candidatus Symbiothrix dinenymphae: bristle-like Bacteroidales
ectosymbionts of termite gut protists
Yuichi Hongoh, Tomoyuki Sato, Satoko Noda, Sadaharu Ui, Toshiaki Kudo,
Moriya Ohkuma
Page 2631
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Dominance of Mycoplasma in the guts of the Long-Jawed Mudsucker,
Gillichthys mirabilis, from five California salt marshes
Nasreen Bano, Angelique deRae Smith, William Bennett, Lydia Vasquez,
James T. Hollibaugh
Page 2636
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Web alert
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Microbes and polyketides. An annotated selection of World Wide Web
sites relevant to the topics in Environmental Microbiology
Lawrence P. Wackett
Page 2642
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Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management
Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2007

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RESEARCH NOTE
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Effects of heavy metal contamination from anthropogenic sources on
Dasarahalli tank, India
H. Lokeshwari, G. T. Chandrappa
Page 121
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Phytoplankton below the ice cover in Lake Teletskoye, a deep
oligotrophic lake in western Siberia
Elena Y. Mitrofanova, Vladimir V. Kirillov, Anton V. Kotovshchikov
Page 129
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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The relevance of species-based indicators as a tool for evaluating the
structure of exploited fish assemblages: a comparative study of two
tropical lakes in Mali, West Africa
Justin Kantoussan, Jean Marc Ecoutin, Monique Simier, Guy Fontenelle,
Omar Thiom Thiaw, Raymond Lae
Page 135
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ui=8mfr&af=T


The changing face of the Ethiopian rift lakes and their environs: call
of the time
Tenalem Ayenew, Dagnachew Legesse
Page 149
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CASE STUDY
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Baseline assessment of metals and hydrocarbons in the sediments of
Lake Mulwala, Australia
D. S. Baldwin, J. A. Howitt
Page 167
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Effects of anthropogenic influences on the trophic status of two water
supply reservoirs in Serbia
Aleksandar Ostojic, Svetlana Curcic, Ljiljana Comic, Marina Topuzovic
Page 175
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Water quality characteristics of two reservoir lakes in eastern
Connecticut, USA
Farhad Nadim, George E. Hoag, Fred L. Ogden, Glenn S. Warner,
Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou
Page 187
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ui=8mfr&af=T


Factors influencing primary productivity in Panshet and Ujjani
Reservoirs, India
Shanti Vaidya, Radhakrishnan Dhilipkumar, Kishore Kumar Swain, Vuppati
Mark Prabhakar, Apurba Kumar Basu
Page 203
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1770.2007.00334.x?ai=xs&\
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Eutrophication, phytoplankton dynamics and nutrient removal in two
man-made urban lakes (Palacio de Cristal and Serralves), Porto, Portugal
L. Xavier, M. Vale, V. M. Vasconcelos
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Plant Pathology
Volume 56, Issue 5, October 2007

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Original Articles
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Virus impact at the interface of an ancient ecosystem and a recent
agroecosystem: studies on three legume-infecting potyviruses in the
southwest Australian floristic region
C. G. Webster, B. A. Coutts, R. A. C. Jones, M. G. K. Jones, S. J. Wylie
Page 729
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Variation in virus populations and growth characteristics of two
sugarcane cultivars naturally infected by Sugarcane yellow leaf virus
in different geographical locations
Y. Abu Ahmad, J.-C. Girard, E. Fernandez, J. Pauquet, B. E. L.
Lockhart, P. Letourmy, P. Rott
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Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP), cloning and sequencing
reveal a close association between related molecular variants of
Grapevine virus A (GVA) and Shiraz disease in South Africa
D. E. Goszczynski
Page 755
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Molecular characterization and experimental host range of Euphorbia
mosaic virus-Yucatan Peninsula, a begomovirus species in the Squash
leaf curl virus clade
C. Hernandez-Zepeda, A. M. Idris, G. Carnevali, J. K. Brown, O. A.
Moreno-Valenzuela
Page 763
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Malvastrum leaf curl Guangdong virus is a distinct monopartite
begomovirus
J. Wu, R. B. Mugiira, X. Zhou
Page 771
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Detection of lethal yellowing phytoplasma in embryos from coconut
palms infected with Cape St Paul wilt disease in Ghana
J. O. Nipah, P. Jones, M. J. Dickinson
Page 777
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Real-time PCR detection systems for Flavescence doree and Bois noir
phytoplasmas in grapevine: comparison with conventional PCR detection
and application in diagnostics
M. Hren, J. Boben, A. Rotter, P. Kralj, K. Gruden, M. Ravnikar
Page 785
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Development of a specific assay using RISA for detection of the
bacterial agent of ‘basses richesses’ syndrome of sugar beet and
confirmation of a Pentastiridius sp. (Fulgoromopha, Cixiidae) as the
economic vector
O. Semetey, A. Bressan, F. Gatineau, E. Boudon-Padieu
Page 797
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Pathogenicity assays restrict the species Xanthomonas campestris into
three pathovars and reveal nine races within X. campestris pv.
campestris
E. Fargier, C. Manceau
Page 805
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A green fluorescent protein-based screening method for identification
of resistance in anthurium to systemic infection by Xanthomonas
axonopodis pv. dieffenbachiae
W. Elibox, P. Umaharan
Page 819
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Evaluation of a rapid diagnostic field test kit for identification of
Phytophthora species, including P. ramorum and P. kernoviae at the
point of inspection
C. R. Lane, E. Hobden, L. Walker, V. C. Barton, A. J. Inman, K. J. D.
Hughes, H. Swan, A. Colyer, I. Barker
Page 828
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Sensitivity of Phytophthora infestans to mandipropamid and the effect
of enforced selection pressure in the field
Y. Cohen, E. Rubin, T. Hadad, D. Gotlieb, H. Sierotzki, U. Gisi
Page 836
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Evidence for sporangial dispersal leading to a single infection event
and a sudden high incidence of grapevine downy mildew
D. Gobbin, G. Bleyer, S. Keil, H. H. Kassemeyer, C. Gessler
Page 843
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Development of an Arabidopsis thaliana-based bioassay for
investigating seed colonization by mycotoxigenic Aspergillus species
T. M. Hammond, D. I. Tsitsigiannis, N. P. Keller
Page 848
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Quantitative trait loci associated with isolate specific and isolate
nonspecific partial resistance to Phoma macdonaldii in sunflower
R. Darvishzadeh, S. Poormohammad Kiani, G. Dechamp-Guillaume, L.
Gentzbittel, A. Sarrafi
Page 855
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Effects of inoculum potential, shading and soil temperature on root
infection of oil palm seedlings by the basal stem rot pathogen
Ganoderma boninense
R. W. Rees, J. Flood, Y. Hasan, R. M. Cooper
Page 862
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Occurrence and development of Colletotrichum acutatum on symptomless
blueberry bushes
S. Yoshida, T. Tsukiboshi, H. Shinohara, M. Koitabashi, S. Tsushima
Page 871
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Potential physical and chemical barriers to infection by the burrowing
nematode Radopholus similis in roots of susceptible and resistant
banana (Musa spp.)
N. Wuyts, G. Lognay, M. Verscheure, M. Marlier, D. De Waele, R. Swennen
Page 878
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Introductions of non-native plant pathogens into Great Britain,
1970-2004
D. R. Jones, R. H. A. Baker
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European Journal of Soil Science
Volume 58, Issue 5, October 2007

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Original Articles
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From Plinthic Acrisols to Plinthosols and Gleysols: iron and
groundwater dynamics in the tertiary sediments of the upper Amazon basin
E. Fritsch, A. J. Herbillon, N. R. do Nascimento, M Grimaldi, A. J.
Melfi
Page 989
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Temperature and soil moisture effects on dissolved organic matter
release from a moorland Podzol O horizon under field and controlled
laboratory conditions
M. I. Stutter, D. G. Lumsdon, R. J. Cooper
Page 1007
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Factors controlling aggregation in a minimum and a conventionally
tilled undulating field
S. De Gryze, H. Bossuyt, J. Six, M. Van Meirvenne, G. Govers, R. Merckx
Page 1017
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Iron speciation in soils and soil aggregates by synchrotron-based
X-ray microspectroscopy (XANES, [mu]-XANES)
J. Prietzel, J. Thieme, K. Eusterhues, D. Eichert
Page 1027
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Assessment of degradation and generation of humus in a coffee soil
affected by weed cover by means of a stable carbon isotopic ratio
A. Watanabe, H. Takada, Sarno, Afandi, T. Adachi, Y. Oki, M. Senge
Page 1042
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Analysis of polynuclear aromatic and aliphatic components in soil
humic acids using ruthenium tetroxide oxidation
K. Ikeya, Y. Ishida, H. Ohtani, S. Yamamoto, A. Watanabe
Page 1050
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Changes in the macro-pore structure of restored soil caused by
compaction beneath heavy agricultural machinery: a morphometric study
B. Schaffer, M. Stauber, R. Muller, R. Schulin
Page 1062
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Solubility of major cations and Cu, Zn and Cd in soil extracts of some
contaminated agricultural soils near a zinc smelter in Norway:
modelling with a multisurface extension of WHAM
A. R. Almas, S. Lofts, J. Mulder, E. Tipping
Page 1074
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Scale-dependent relationships between soil organic carbon and urease
activity
R. Corstanje, R. Schulin, R. M. Lark
Page 1087
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Iron-bearing phases in a peat-derived duricrust from Brazil
A. F. D. C. Varajao, G. M. Da Costa, C. A. C. Varajao, J. D. Meunier,
F. Colin
Page 1096
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Changes in structural stability with soil surface crusting:
consequences for erodibility estimation
F. Darboux, Y. Le Bissonnais
Page 1107
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Structural characteristics of clay-dominated soils of a marsh and a
palaeosol in a crossed diagram
M. Bernard, P. Dudoignon, Y. Pons, C. Chevallier, L. Boulay
Page 1115
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MIOR: an individual-based model for simulating the spatial patterns of
soil organic matter microbial decomposition
D. Masse, C. Cambier, A. Brauman, S. Sall, K. Assigbetse, J.-L. Chotte
Page 1127
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Lead ion adsorption on montmorillonite-Al hydroxide polymer systems
R. P. T. Janssen, M. G. M. Bruggenwert, G. van Dijk, W. H. van Riemsdijk
Page 1136
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Retention of copper, cadmium and zinc in soil and its textural
fractions influenced by long-term field management
G. J Lair, M. H Gerzabek, G. Haberhauer
Page 1145
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Predictive modelling of C dynamics in the long-term fertilization
experiment at Bad Lauchstadt with the Rothamsted Carbon Model
B. Ludwig, E. Schulz, J. Rethemeyer, I. Merbach, H. Flessa
Page 1155
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Carbon in tundra soils in the Lake Labaz region of arctic Siberia
A. Gundelwein, T. Muller-Lupp, M. Sommerkorn, E. T. K. Haupt, E.-M.
Pfeiffer, H. Wiechmann
Page 1164
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Determination of the fate of 13C labelled maize and wheat exudates in
an agricultural soil during a short-term incubation
M. Marx, F. Buegger, A. Gattinger, A. Zsolnay, J. C. Munch
Page 1175
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Kinetics and adsorption of metolachlor and atrazine and the conversion
products (deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine, hydroxyatrazine) in
the soil profile of a river basin
Z. Vryzas, E. Papadopoulou-Mourkidou, G. Soulios, K. Prodromou
Page 1186
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Soil and human health: an epidemiological review
R. L. Hough
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Book Reviews
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Sols et Environnement - Edited by M.-C. Girard, C. Walter, J.-C. Remy,
J. Berthelin & J.-L Morel F. Courchesne
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Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality - Edited by J.
Bloem, D.W. Hopkins & A. Benedetti J. A. Harris
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The Biology of Soil - by R.D. Bardgett
R. E. Creamer
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Introduction to Geomicrobiology - by K. Konhauser
J. Renshaw
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Soil Management for Sustainability - Edited by R. Horn, H. Fleige, S.
Peth & X. Peng
R. J. Parkinson
Page 1216
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3&ui=8mfr&af=T


Digital Soil Mapping: An Introductory Perspective - Edited by P.
Lagacherie, A. B. McBratney & M. Voltz
R. Webster
Page 1217
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3&ui=8mfr&af=T


Australian Soil Fertility Manual - Edited by G. Price
K. W. T. Goulding
Page 1218
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3&ui=8mfr&af=T


Interpreting Soil Test Results: What do all the Numbers mean? - by P.
Hazelton & B.Murphy
R. Webster
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3&ui=8mfr&af=T


Function of Soils for Human Societies and the Environment - Edited by
E. Frossard, W.E.H. Blum & B.P. Warkenten
S. Nortcliff
Page 1220
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3&ui=8mfr&af=T

Conservation Biology
Volume 21, Issue 5, October 2007

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Contents
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Cover Caption

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Editorial
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Losing the Dark: a Case for a National Policy on Land Conservation
Robert F. Baldwin, Stephen C. Trombulak
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Letters
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Artists as the New Naturalists: a Response and Expansion to Jacobson
et al.
James Tolisano
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Ecological and Environmental Policies versus a Steady State Economy in
Times of Crisis
Henk Folmer, Theunis Piersma
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Letters
Brian Czech
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Essay
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Academic Institutions in the United States and Canada Ranked According
to Research Productivity in the Field of Conservation Biology
Jacqualine B. Grant, Julian D. Olden, Joshua J. Lawler, Cara R.
Nelson, Brian R. Silliman
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Conservation in Practice
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Is Current Consumption Excessive? A General Framework and Some
Indications for the United States
PAUL R. EHRLICH, LAWRENCE H. GOULDER
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Comparing Effectiveness of Experimental and Implemented Bycatch
Reduction Measures: the Ideal and the Real
T. M. COX, R. L. LEWISON, R. ZYDELIS, L. B. CROWDER, C. SAFINA, A. J.
READ
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Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Services Program: Intention,
Implementation, and Impact
G. ARTURO SANCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, ALEXANDER PFAFF, JUAN ANDRES ROBALINO,
JUDSON P. BOOMHOWER
Page 1165
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The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting by Matsigenka Native
Communities in Manu National Park, Peru
JULIA OHL-SCHACHERER, GLENN H. SHEPARD, HILLARD KAPLAN, CARLOS A.
PERES, TAAL LEVI, DOUGLAS W. YU
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Genetic Data and the Listing of Species Under the U.S. Endangered
Species Act
SYLVIA M. FALLON
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Genetic Origin and Success of Reintroduced White Storks
OLA OLSSON
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Edge Effects in the Great Tit: Analyses of Long-term Data with GIS
Techniques
TEDDY A. WILKIN, DANY GARANT, ANDREW G. GOSLER, BEN C. SHELDON
Page 1207
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Long-Term Effects of Group-Selection Timber Harvesting on Abundance of
Forest Birds
STEVEN P. CAMPBELL, JACK W. WITHAM, MALCOLM L. HUNTER
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A Meta-Analysis of Bird Responses to Uniform Partial Harvesting across
North America
MARK C. VANDERWEL, JAY R. MALCOLM, STEPHEN C. MILLS
Page 1230
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Trend in the Status of Breeding Bird Fauna in British Columbia,
Canada, Based on the IUCN Red List Index Method
JAMES F. QUAYLE, LEAH R. RAMSAY, DAVID F. FRASER
Page 1241
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Introduced Birds and the Fate of Hawaiian Rainforests
JEFFREY T. FOSTER, SCOTT K. ROBINSON
Page 1248
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Invasive Rodent Eradication on Islands
GREGG HOWALD, C. JOSH DONLAN, JUAN PABLO GALVAN, JAMES C. RUSSELL,
JOHN PARKES, ARACELI SAMANIEGO, YIWEI WANG, DICK VEITCH, PIERO
GENOVESI, MICHEL PASCAL, ALAN SAUNDERS, BERNIE TERSHY
Page 1258
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Infectious Diseases and Extinction Risk in Wild Mammals
AMY B. PEDERSEN, KATE E. JONES, CHARLES L. NUNN, SONIA ALTIZER
Page 1269
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Latitudinal Variation in the Prevalence and Intensity of Chytrid
(Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) Infection in Eastern Australia
KERRY M. KRIGER, FELICIA PEREOGLOU, JEAN-MARC HERO
Page 1280
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Lag Effects in the Impacts of Mass Coral Bleaching on Coral Reef Fish,
Fisheries, and Ecosystems
NICHOLAS A. J. GRAHAM, SHAUN K. WILSON, SIMON JENNINGS, NICHOLAS V. C.
POLUNIN, JAN ROBINSON, JUDE P. BIJOUX, TIM M. DAW
Page 1291
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Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems
to Anthropogenic Threats
BENJAMIN S. HALPERN, KIMBERLY A. SELKOE, FIORENZA MICHELI, CARRIE V.
KAPPEL
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Predicting the Range of Chinese Mitten Crabs in Europe
LEIF-MATTHIAS HERBORG, DEBORAH A. RUDNICK, YANG SILIANG, DAVID M.
LODGE, HUGH J. MacISAAC
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Building on IUCN Regional Red Lists to Produce Lists of Species of
Conservation Priority: a Model with Irish Bees
UNA FITZPATRICK, TOMAS E. MURRAY, ROBERT J. PAXTON, MARK J. F. BROWN
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The Botanist Effect Revisited: Plant Species Richness, County Area,
and Human Population Size in the United States
MARCO PAUTASSO, MICHAEL L. McKINNEY
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Effectiveness of Corridors Relative to Enlargement of Habitat Patches
MATTHEW R. FALCY, CRISTIAN F. ESTADES
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Colonization of the Southern Patagonia Ocean by Exotic Chinook Salmon
LEANDRO A. BECKER, MIGUEL A. PASCUAL, NESTOR G. BASSO
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Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change
DAVID K. SKELLY, LIANA N. JOSEPH, HUGH P. POSSINGHAM, L. KEALOHA
FREIDENBURG, THOMAS J. FARRUGIA, MICHAEL T. KINNISON, ANDREW P. HENDRY
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Climate Change and Moving Species: Furthering the Debate on Assisted
Colonization
MALCOLM L. HUNTER
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Are We Consuming Too Much-for What?
HERMAN E. DALY, BRIAN CZECH, DAVID L. TRAUGER, WILLIAM E. REES, MANSI
GROVER, TRACY DOBSON, STEPHEN C. TROMBULAK
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Consumption, Investment, and Future Well-Being: Reply to Daly et al.
KENNETH J. ARROW, GRETCHEN DAILY, PARTHA DASGUPTA, PAUL EHRLICH,
LAWRENCE GOULDER, GEOFFREY HEAL, SIMON LEVIN, KARL-GORAN MALER,
STEPHEN SCHNEIDER, DAVID STARRETT, BRIAN WALKER
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Categorization Systems of Threatened Species
JORGE SOBERON, RODRIGO A. MEDELLIN
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Shortcomings of Threatened Species Categorization Systems: Reply to
Soberon and Medellin
ALFREDO D. CUARON, PALOMA C. de GRAMMONT
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The Dangers of Black-and-White Conservation
JOHN WIENS
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Potential Habitat and Biodiversity Losses from Intensified Biodiesel
Feedstock Production
LIAN PIN KOH
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Invasions as a Tool for Basic Research
Ingrid M. Parker, Eduardo C. Garcia, Katrina M. Dlugosch, Pete
Holloran, Sarah M. Swope, Kris B. Hulvey, Robert Clark
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A Swan among Geese
Michael Gibbons
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The Selfless Geneticist
Joe Roman
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Saving the Planet in the Pacific Northwest
W. Gregory Hood
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Conservation Resentment Dissected
Kai M. A. Chan, Terre Satterfield
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Recently Received Books (April 2007-June 2007)

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2007-09-21 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

OVER 170 YEARS IN THE MAKING!

LaBau, V.J.; Bones, J.T.; Kingsley, N.P.; Lund, H.G.; Smith, W.B. 2007. A History of the Forest Survey in the United States: 1830–2004. FS-877. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 82 p. This publication presents a history of the Forest Survey (now known as Forest Inventory and Analysis) program in the United States as it evolved within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service over a period of more than 100 years. It draws on the writings of several authors who have published on various aspects of the Forest Survey program. A review is presented of nine ground plot designs used in the Forest Survey and Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) programs since 1931. This publication also highlights the major events contributing to the current FIA program, beginning as far back as 1830. It is impressive to look at the many contributions of various people working with the Nation’s Forest Survey program, as well as the various methodologies that have contributed to understanding and updating the national forest survey statistics. You may order a hard copy from Peter Williams, Collaborative Planning and Multiparty Monitoring Specialist, USDA-Forest Service, Ecosystem Management Coordination, Resource Information Group, WO-Ft Collins, 2150A Centre Ave, Suite 300, Ft Collins, CO 80526 USA. Email: peterwilliams@... or download from http://www.fs.fed.us/emc/rig/documents/HFSbook_FINAL_07_0625.pdf. From Peter Williams, USFS.

HANDBOOKS ON THE WISE USE OF WETLANDS ON CD-ROM. From Gandhiv Kafle via the Wetland Friends list. The Ramsar Handbooks include all of the guidelines adopted by the Conference of the Contracting Parties, as well as a good deal of additional illustrative material, and this 3rd edition has been updated through the 9th meeting of the COP in November 2005. The CD-ROM includes all 17 of the Handbooks in Adobe PDF format in English, French, and Spanish versions, with a Web-based interface. The PDF texts are also available for download on the Ramsar Web site here http://www.ramsar.org/lib/lib_handbooks2006_e.htm , but the CD-ROM can be ordered free of charge by contacting Ramsar's Montse Riera ( riera@...) and specifying postal address and number wanted.

GROWING FUEL - The October 2007 issue of National Geographic 212 (4) focuses on climate change and biofuels. A very interesting issue.

Ahmad, Ghayyas. 2001. Mapping a dry shrub forest for biodiversity conservation planning (A case study in the Salt range of Pakistan, using remote sensing and GIS tools) 90 p. http://www.itc.nl/library/Papers/msc_2001/Ghayyas_Ahmed.pdf

Ayenew, Tenalem; Legesse, Dagnachew. 2007. The changing face of the Ethiopian rift lakes and their environs: call of the time. Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management
12(3):149 - Abstract. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1770.2007.00332.x?ai=xs&ui=8mfr&af=T

Biodiversity Support Program. 1993. African Biodiversity: Foundation for the Future. A Framework for Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development. 19 p. http://www.worldwildlife.org/bsp/publications/africa/issues_3/afbiodiv.pdf

Chandler, Clint, et al. 2005. Inventory, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Streams within the Lapwai Creek and the Big Canyon Creek Watershed. 2002-2003 Technical Report, Project No. 199901700 (et al.), 28 electronic pages, (BPA Report DOE/BP-00004497-4) http://www.efw.bpa.gov/publications/H00004497-4.pdf

Halpern, Benjamin S. et al. 2007. Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystemsto Anthropogenic Threats. Conservation Biology 21(5): 1301
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00752.x?ai=rx&ui=8mfr&af=T

Marsett, Robert C.et al. 2006. Remote Sensing for Grassland Management in the Arid Southwest. Rangeland Ecology & Management 59(5): 530-540 (Abstract) http://www.srmjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.2111%2F05-201R.1

Mazzotti, Frank J. 1990. The Value of Endangered Species: the Importance of Conserving Biological Diversity. SSWIS14. University of Florida. 3 p. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/UW/UW06400.pdf

Norse, Elliott A.; et al. 1986. Why Conserve Biological Diversity? From "Conserving Biological Diversity in Our National Forests The Wilderness Society. http://www.magicalliance.org/Forests/why_conserve_biological_diversit.htm

Sisk, Thomas D. n.d. Geographic Information Systems (GIS). http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/Tools/gis.htm

UNEP. No date. Biodiversity. http://www.unep.org/Themes/Biodiversity/About/index.asp

Webster, R. 2007. Digital Soil Mapping: An Introductory Perspective. European Journal of Soil Science 58(5): 1217. Book review.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2389.2007.00943_6.x?ai=v3&ui=8mfr&af=T

Yarnal, Brent. 2002. Infrastructure for Monitoring Global Change in Local Places. 12 p. http://hero.geog.psu.edu/products/Yarnal_Geoscope.pdf

Zimmermann, N. E. et al.2007. Remote sensing-based predictors improve distribution models of rare, early successional and broadleaf tree species in Utah. Journal of Applied Ecology 44(5):1057, Summary. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01348.x?ai=t3&ui=8mfr&af=T

Conflicts in Africa - http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/Intro.asp

GEODATA portal http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

GPS - http://www.gps.gov/applications/environment/index.html

Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC). http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/corredor/corredor.html

Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in "Coalition" nations http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1129-rainforests.html

The Global Technology Revolution - http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1307/MR1307.sum.html

IDAHO VACANCIES - From Barbara Conkling, USFS Forest Health Monitoring - The Idaho Department of Lands (USA) is currently advertising seven positions. Detailed announcements for all the positions may be found at http://www.idl.idaho.gov/bureau/administration/job.htm. Note that several of the closing dates are in September 2007.

THANKS FOR SHARING – My sincere thanks to Gautier Amoussou, Tania Anderson, Dominique Bikaba, Noel N de Villiers, Mamadou Augustin Dembele, Alessandro Fusari, Richard Ingwe, YH Kombo, Francis Kamau Muthoni, Isaac Osiemo, and Harison Randrianasolo for taking time to respond to my request for unique environmental facts for Africa nations as possible inclusion in the publication “Africa: An Atlas of Our Changing Environment.” All the information you provided has been passed on to the team that is working on the atlas for their consideration. (We still welcome more facts by the way). If I have left anyone out of the above list, I offer my deepest apologies. Again, my thanks to all those who take the time to help others. Cheers, Gyde.

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2007-09-29 Natural Resource Monitoring Items of Interest

EUROFOREST Portal - The European Forest Institute (EFI) has launched a new information service - EUROFOREST Portal at http://forestportal.efi.int/. The portal aims to meet demands for better access to current information on European forests and forestry in an easily accessible and user-friendly form. The portal contains a news section and a metadatabase of web resources - web pages of organizations, networks, information providers, databases, and selected major reports. We invite you to explore this new service! From Lauri Vesa & Tim Green, EFI. 

YOUR HELP IS REQUESTED

DEMOGRAHIC CHANGES ON FORESTRY SOUGHT. Bijendra Basnyat writes, “I am undertaking a study on "Impact of demographic changes on forest and forestry in the Asia and Pacific region to 2020 for FAO. This study is being undertaken as a thematic study for the Asia and Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook study (APFSOS II) to 2020. Any literature, study report, document including a website references supporting this area of study theme will be highly appreciated.” You may reach Bijendra at bbasnyat@... 

REQUEST FOR TROPICAL LAND USE CHANGE INFORMATION. Salvador Flores Paitán writes, “Please send me information related to dynamic of Tropical land use change; human appropriation primary product; changes in the tropical forest soil after crops or tree monocultures; methodologies for degraded tropical soil evaluation, and so on. In attached FAO & UNESCO. I’ll be studying degraded forest soils under fifteen years pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes) peach palm crop in colonization road near Iquitos-Peru; I need your help for bibliographic support.” Please contact Salvador at salvadorflorespaitan@.... 

Here are some publications and URLS i ran across this week doing some research. Some may be useful to you. 

Atkinson, P.W., et al. 2006. Identifying declines in waterbirds: the effects of missing data, population variability and count period on the interpretation of long-term survey data. Biol. Conserv. 130(4): 549-559. (Abstract) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V5X-4JHMJ0R-1&_user=10&_handle=V-WA-A-W-AZ-MsSAYVW-UUA-U-AAZCWECZUD-AAZWYDZVUD-VBWBVEZA-AZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=07%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=9&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%235798%232006%23998699995%23620971!&_cdi=5798&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=d0ff4f75857beae28737f64918c3d5bf

Brown, D. G. et al. 2000. Modeling the relationships between land use and land cover on private lands in the Upper Midwest, USA. Journal of Environmental Management 59. 17 p. http://ltm.agriculture.purdue.edu/Brown0369.pdf

Castilla, G.; Hay, G.J. 2006. Uncertainties in land use data. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. 3, 3439–3472. http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~gjhay/PDFs/Peer_reviewed/2007_GCastilla_Hay_Hydro.pdf

Civco, Daniel L ; Hurd,James D. 1999. A hierarchical approach to land use and land cover mapping using multiple image types. 12 p. http://clear.uconn.edu/publications/research/tech_papers/Civco_Hurd_ASPRS1999.pdf

Cowen, David J. et al. 1998.State of knowledge on gis databases and land use/cover patterns: South Carolina. 97 p. http://www.lu-ces.org/documents/SOKreports/landuse_landcover.pdf

Denniss, Anthony et al. 1999. Mount Fitton hyperspectral mineral mapping collaborative project. MESA Journal 15 October 1999. 3 p. http://www.hymap.com/hvc_pdf/mtfitton.pdf

Dobos, E., Carré, F., Hengl, T., Reuter, H.I., Tóth, G., 2006. Digital Soil Mapping as a support to production of functional maps. EUR 22123 EN, 68 pp. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxemburg. http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/fileadmin/Documentation/Reports/Land_Management/EUR_2006-2007/EUR_22123_EN.pdf

Duhamel, Christophe 2005. Necessary paths for developing harmonized global land use classification systems. 9 p. http://www2.cr.chiba-u.jp/symp2005/documents/Oralsession/Session2_Dec13/S2-2ChristopheDuhamel_paper.pdf

Dupuy, B. et al. 1999. Tropical forest management techniques: a review of the sustainability of forest management practices in tropical countries. Working Paper: FAO/FPIRS/04 prepared for the World Bank Forest Policy Implementation Review and Strategy. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X4110e/X4110E00.htm#TopOfPage

George, H.; Nachtergaele, F.O. n.d. Land Use Data http://www.fao.org/AG/aGL/agll/landuse/docs/global_LU_ISPRS_final.doc

Gerold, Gerhard. 2004. Soil Degradation by different Land Use Impacts in Tropical Rainforests and Consequences for Land Rehabilitation. 8 p. http://www.tropentag.de/2004/abstracts/full/328.pdf

Hansen, Henning Sten. 2003. A fuzzy logic approach to urban land-use mapping. 16 p. http://www.scangis.org/scangis2003/papers/25.pdf

Hartemink, Alfred E.; Nachtergaele, Freddy. 2006. Soil maps for development. 5 p. http://www.alfredhartemink.nl/PDF/2006%20-%20DSM%20and%20GDP.pdf

Hengl, T., Toomanian, N., 2006. Maps are not what they seem: representing uncertainty in soil-property maps. In: Caetano, M., Painho, M., (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (Accuracy 2006), 5-7 July 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, pp.805-813. http://www.spatial-accuracy.org/print.asp?username=Hengl&id=2&page=users/articles/Hengl/2/default.asp and http://www.spatial-accuracy.org/2006/PDF/Hengl2006accuracy.pdf

Herold, A. 2001. Remote sensing and spatial metrics- a new approach for thedescription of structures and changes in urban areas. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS apos;01. IEEE 2001 International 2001 Page(s):366 - 368 vol.1. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/7695/21054/00976160.pdf

Hunt Jr., E. Raymond; Williams, Amy E. Parker. 2006. Detection of Flowering Leafy Spurge With Satellite Multispectral Imagery. Rangeland Ecology & Management 59(5): 494-499. (Abstract). http://www.srmjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.2111%2F05-216R.1

Ihlstedt, Ulrik. 2002. Soil degradation and rehabilitation in humid tropical forests (Sabah, Malaysia). Doctoral diss. Dept. of Forest Ecology, SLU. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae. Silvestria vol. 249. http://diss-epsilon.slu.se/archive/00000233/01/silv249_u_ilstedt.pdf

Jansen, L.J.M. 2005. Harmonisation of land-use class sets to facilitate compatibility and comparability of data across space and time. 11th CEReS International Symposium, 13-14 December 2005, Chiba, Japan. 29 p. http://www2.cr.chiba-u.jp/symp2005/documents/Oralsession/Session2_Dec13/S2-3LouisaJMJansen_paper.pdf

MacDonald, L. H. ed. 1981? Agro-forestry in the African Humid Tropics. Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Ibadan, Nigeria, 27 April - 1 May 1981. 171 p. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80364e/80364E00.htm#Contents

Marsh, Stuart E. et al. 2003. Development of Sampling Procedures Based Upon Satellite Derived Land Cover History for the NSF Digital African Cities Project. 6 p. http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_10/Marsh2003.pdf

Ministry of National Economy. 2004. Modern Means and Technology Used in the Oman Census Programme. ESA/STAT/AC.98/8. Sultanate of Oman 14 p. http://unstats.un.org/UNSD/Demographic/meetings/egm/CensusEGM04/docs/AC98_8.pdf

Okazaki, Masanori. N.d. Soil Degradation Due to Acidification. 5 p. http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/lugec/Proceedings/28)Okazaki.pdf

Reynolds, Evan R. C.; Thompson, Frank B. 1988. Forests, Climate, and Hydrology • Regional Impacts. 227 p. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80635e/80635E00.htm#Contents

Sawaya, Kali E. et al. 2003. Extending satellite remote sensing to local scales: land and water resource monitoring using high-resolution imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 88144– 156 13 p. http://water.umn.edu/Documents/RSE%2088-2003_Sawaya_High%20resolution.pdf

Stitt, Susan et al. 2006. Classification of Leafy Spurge With Earth Observing-1 Advanced Land Imager. Rangeland Ecology & Management 59(5): 507-511. (Abstract). http://www.srmjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.2111%2F06-052R1.1

Tiarks, A. et al. 1998. Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Forest Plantations. CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 16. 13 p. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/OccPapers/Op-16.pdf

Verburg, Peter H. et al. 2004. A method to analyse neighbourhood characteristics of land use patterns. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 28 667–690. http://www.lumos.info/resources/File/CUES_nov2004.pdf

Zhang, Xiuying et al. 2004. Inferring urban land use from IKONOS image. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS apos;04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
20-24 Sept. 2004 Page(s): 2695 - 2698 vol.4
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/9436/29947/01369856.pdf

Zhu, Guobin et al. 2003. A flexible method for urban vegetation cover measurement based on remote sensing images. 8 p. http://www.ipi.uni-hannover.de/html/publikationen/2003/workshop/zhu.pdf

Environmental impacts of converting moist tropical forest to ... http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001096/109608eo.pdf

Forest loss - http://earthwatch.unep.net/emergingissues/forests/forestloss.php

GIS Applications and Database Development Within FAO’s Land and Water Development Division – http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/HC270799/LM/SUSLUP/FAO/AG_GIS.PDF

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Applications for Agriculture - http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/satellites/hyper_agriculture.asp

Land use classification for agri-environmental statistics/indicators. http://unece.org/stats/documents/1999/10/env/13.e.pdf

NASA Science Mission Directorate Site Map - http://science.hq.nasa.gov/info/sitemap.html

Scotland’s Land Cover - http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/education/advances4/index.asp

Soil Inventory Project Procedures Manual http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sag6170?opendocument

SP-399 SKYLAB EREP Investigations Summary http://history.nasa.gov/SP-399/contents.htm

The direct and underlying causes of forest loss http://www.wrm.org.uy/publications/briefings/underlying.html and http://www.wrm.org.uy/publications/briefings/Caucesofforestloss.doc

The Sky's the Limit - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/72/gps.html

-- H. Gyde Lund Forest Information Services
6238 Settlers Trail Place
Gainesville, VA 20155-1374 USA
Tel: +1-703-743-1755
Email: gyde<at>comcast.net URL: http://www.forestinfoservices.com