PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

Section I Forest monitoring framework

1. FOREST BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION FOR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

Francisco Dallmeier

James A. Comiskey

2. THE MAINTENANCE OF DIVERSITY IN A NEOTROPICAL TREE COMMUNITY: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES, CURRENT EVIDENCE, AND CHALLENGES AHEAD

Stephen P. Hubbell

Section II Monitoring and modeling forest biodiversity

3. A GLOBAL NETWORK OF PLOTS FOR UNDERSTANDING TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FORESTS

Peter S. Ashton

4. SIGNAL AND NOISE IN SAMPLING TROPICAL FOREST STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Pamela Hall

Peter S. Ashton

Richard Condit

N. Manokaran

Stephen P. Hubbell

5. PLOTS, PIXELS, AND PARTNERSHIPS: PROSPECTS FOR MAPPING, MONITORING, AND MODELING BIODIVERSITY

H. Gyde Lund

Victor A. Rudis

Kenneth W. Stolte

6. COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, PLANT DIVERSITY AND MICROCLIMATE OF BOREAL FOREST TYPES IN THE RUSSIAN URAL

Gennady I. Belchansky

Varos G. Petrosyan

David C. Douglas

7. MONITORING DIVERSITY OVER TIME USING A FOREST GROWTH MODEL BASED ON ECOLOGICAL LAND CLASSIFICATIONS

Dale S. Solomon

Jeffrey H. Gove

8. SPATIAL REPRESENTATION, BIODIVERSITY, AND FRAGMENTATION OF VEGETATION COMMUNITIES OF THE CENTRAL HIGH LLANOS OF VENEZUELA

Jose L. Berroteran

9. THE ROLE OF DATA FROM INTENSIVE SAMPLE PLOTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW METHOD FOR MAPPING TROPICAL FOREST TYPES USING SATELLITE IMAGERY

France Gerard

Barry Wyatt

Andrew Millington

Jane Wellens

10. MAPPING THE TROPICAL LANDSCAPES OF BENI (BOLIVIA) FROM LANDSAT-TM IMAGERY: BEYOND THE `FOREST/NON FOREST' LEGEND

Agustin Lobo

Raymond E. Gullison

11. THE DESIGN OF PROGRAMS TO MONITOR FOREST BIODIVERSITY: LESSONS FROM THE WOG WOG HABITAT FRAGMENTATION EXPERIMENT

C.R. Margules

M.P. Austin

K.F. Davies

J.A. Meyers

A.O. Nicholls

12. LARGE-SCALE PATTERNS OF SEED DISPERSAL

Shahroukh Mistry

13. INCREASING TREE TURNOVER IN TROPICAL FORESTS AS MEASURED IN PERMANENT PLOTS

Oliver L. Phillips

14. ASSESSING FOREST DIVERSITY ON SMALL PLOTS: CALIBRATION USING SPECIES-INDIVIDUAL CURVES FROM 50-HA PLOTS

Richard Condit

Robin B. Foster

Stephen P. Hubbell

R. Sukumar

Egbert G. Leigh

N. Manokaran

Suzanne Loo de Lao

James V. LaFrankie

Peter S. Ashton

15. FIELD COMPARISONS OF TWO RAPID VEGETATION ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES WITH PERMANENT PLOT INVENTORY DATA IN AMAZONIAN PERU

Margaret J. Stern

16. STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS OF WOODY REGENERATION IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RAIN FORESTS OF NORTHEASTERN COSTA RICA

Robin L. Chazdon

Robert K. Colwell

Julie S. Denslow

Manuel R. Guariguata

17. SHE ANALYSIS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF FOREST BIODIVERSITY

Lee-Ann C. Hayek

Martin A. Buzas

18. STATISTICAL POWER FOR EVALUATING ECOLOGICAL MONITORING METHODS AND ANALYSIS

Clifford G. Rice

Stephen Demarais

Richard W. Hansen

19. WATERSHED RESEARCH PROGRAMS: OPPORTUNITIES FOR LONG-TERM BIODIVERSITY MONITORING AND RESEARCH

Charles W. Slaughter

Kenneth E. Spaeth

Leslie A. Viereck

Clayton L. Hanson

Section III Europe

20. ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING FOR FOREST BIODIVERSITY: A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE

Michael Kohl

Janne Uuttera

Peter Bachmann

Risto Paivinen

21. ECOLOGICAL MONITORING IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA: BIOSPHERE RESERVE INTEGRATED MONITORING PROGRAMME (BRIM)

Jurgen Nauber

22. ASSESSMENT OF BIODIVERSITY IN ECOSYSTEM MONITORING PLOTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SWITZERLAND

John L. Innes

Walter Keller

Ruedi Boesch

Section IV Africa and Australia

23. A HALF-CENTURY OF PERMANENT PLOT OBSERVATION IN BUDONGO FOREST, UGANDA: HISTORIES, HIGHLIGHTS, AND HYPOTHESES

Douglas Sheil

24. FOREST STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY OF LIANAS AND UNDERSTORY TREELETS IN MONODOMINANT AND MIXED STANDS IN THE ITURI FOREST, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Jean-Remy Makana

Terese B. Hart

John A. Hart

25. LONG-TERM MONITORING PLOTS SHOW TRENDS IN THE COMPOSITION, GROWTH, AND MORTALITY OF MIXED EVERGREEN FOREST IN SOUTH AFRICA

Coert J. Geldenhuys

26. ESTABLISHMENT OF LONG-TERM BIODIVERSITY MONITORING SITES IN AUSTRALIAN FORESTS

Michael J. Brown

27. FLORISTIC MONITORING IN THE COOL TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST BIOME

Michael J. Brown

Paul B. Alaback

Thomas T. Veblen

Section V Asia/Pacific

28. DYNAMICS OF A TROPICAL DECIDUOUS FOREST: POPULATION CHANGES (1988 THROUGH 1993) IN A 50-HA PLOT AT MUDUMALAI, SOUTHERN INDIA

R. Sukumar

H.S. Suresh

H.S. Dattaraja

N.V. Joshi

29. FLORISTIC COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, DIVERSITY, AND DYNAMICS OF TWO EVERGREEN FOREST PLOTS IN KARNATAKA STATE, INDIA

Jean-Pierre Pascal

R. Pelissier

M.E. Loffeier

B.R. Ramesh

30. STUDY OF TROPICAL FOREST CANOPY HEIGHT AND COVER USING A POINT-INTERCEPT METHOD

Warren Y. Brockelman

31. STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION, AND DYNAMICS OF AN EVERGREEN BROADLEAF FOREST IN DINGHUSHAN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, CHINA

Kong Guo-Hui

Francisco Dallmeier

James A. Comiskey

Huang Zhong Liang

Wei Ping

Mo Jiang Ming

He Dao Quan

Zhang Qiang Mei

Wang Yu Jia

32. STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF TROPICAL MOUNTAIN RAIN FOREST AT THE JIANFENGLING NATURAL RESERVE, HAINAN ISLAND, P.R. CHINA

Li Yide

James A. Comiskey

Francisco Dallmeier

33. STRUCTURE AND SPECIES COMPOSITION OF A SUB-TROPICAL RAIN FOREST IN SOUTHERN TAIWAN ON A WIND-STREES GRADIENT

I-Fang Sun

Chang-Fu Hsieh

Stephen P. Hubbell

34. COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND SPECIES RICHNESS OF A SUBMONTANE MOIST FOREST ON Mt KINASALAPI, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

John J. Pipoly III

Domingo A. Madulid

35. COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND CHANGES IN A MONTANE RAIN FOREST AT THE CIBODAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA

Rochadi Abdulhadi

Agoes Srijanto

Kuswata Kartawinata

36. RICHNESS, TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION, AND SPECIES PATCHINESS IN THREE LOWLAND FOREST PLOTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Michael Oatham

Bruce M. Beehler

37. A THIRTY-YEAR RECORD OF FOREST DYNAMICS FROM KOLOMBANGARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS

David F.R.P. Burslem

Timothy C. Whitmore

Nixon Denmark

Conclusion

38. OUTLOOK ON FOREST BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH, MONITORING AND MODELING FRAMEWORK

Francisco Dallmeier

James A. Comiskey

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