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General Technical Report

Title: Proceedings of the session on tropical forestry for people of the Pacific, XVII Pacific Science Congress; May 27-28,

Author: Conrad, Eugene C.; Newell, Leonard A.

Date: 1992

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-129. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 88 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-129

Description: The 17 papers in the Proceedings of the Session on Tropical Forestry for People of the Pacific cover the topics of the USDA Forest Service's tropical forestry research, forestry research in Asia and the Pacific, management of tropical forests for products and energy; forest and wildlife management, the South Pacific Forestry Development Programme, tropical rainforests of northern Australia, forest resources in New Guinea, management factors affecting forests, forests of East Kalimantan, forest biological diversity, hydrologic effects on forest management, fire management in Central America, soil taxonomy and land evaluation, tropical termites and cuticular hydrocarbons, natural regeneration of Hawaiian forest species, mangrove stands in Micronesia, and introduced weeds of native Hawaiian forests.

Key Words: tropical forestry, forestry research, resource management, biological diversity, natural regeneration, soil taxonomy, mangroves, tropical termites, weeds, wildlife management, Central America, East Kalimantan, Hawaii, Micronesia, northern Australia, New Guinea, South Pacific

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Contents

Front Matter 436 KB

Tropical Forestry Research at the USDA Forest Service's Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry 169 KB
C. Eugene Conrad and Jerry A. Sesco

Forestry Research in Asia and Pacific 248 KB
Jim Chamberlain, Erin Moore

Management of Tropical Forests for Products and Energy 163 KB
John I. Zerbe

Holistic Forest and Wildlife Management in Hawaii-Is It Possible? 86 KB
Michael G. Buck

The South Pacific Forestry Development Programme 111 KB
Tang Hon Tat

Polycyclic Selection System for the Tropical Rainforests of Northern Australia 186 KB
Glen T. Dale, Grahame B. Applegate

Management and Utilization of Forest Resources in Papua New Guinea 177 KB
P.B.L. Srivastava

Culture and Resource Management: Factors Affecting Forests 204 KB
Marjorie C. Falanruw

People and Forests in East Kalimantan 304 KB
Kuswata Kartawinata, Timothy C. Jessup, A.P. Vayda, S. Riswan, Cynthia Mackie, Nancy E. Peluso

Forest Biological Diversity Interactions with Resource Utilization 298 KB
S.T. Mok

Evaluating Long-Term Cumulative Hydrologic Effects of Forest Management: A Conceptual Approach 383 KB
Robert R. Ziemer

Fire Management in Central America 280 KB
Andrea L. Koonce, Armnando González-Cabán

Soil Taxonomy and Land Evaluation for Forest Establishment 203 KB
Haruyoshi Ikawa

Cuticular Hydrocarbons for Species Determination of Tropical Termites 561 KB
Michael I. Haverty, Lori J. Nelson, Barbara L. Thorne, Margaret S. Collins, Johanna P.E.C. Darlington, Marion Page

Role of Decaying Logs and Other Organic Seedbeds in Natural Regeneration of Hawaiian Forest Species on Abandoned Montane Pasture 413 KB
Paul G. Scowcroft

Use Classification of Mangrove Areas, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia 642 KB
Nora N. Devoe

Biological Control of Introduced Weeds of Native Hawaiian Forests 458 KB
George P. Markin, Roddy F. Nagata, Donald E. Gardner

Citation

Conrad, Eugene C.; Newell, Leonard A. 1992. Proceedings of the session on tropical forestry for people of the Pacific, XVII Pacific Science Congress; May 27-28, Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-129. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 88 p.