Wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent and devastating in many tropical forests.
Although seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are among the most fire-threatened …

Lack of understanding the negative and positive effects of wildfires poses a challenge to the
restoration and management of tropical ecosystems. Although fire can have negative …

One-year-old logging gaps were sampled in dry and humid selectively-logged Bolivian
tropical forests to determine the density of commercial tree regeneration. The efficacy of …

Fire threatens to undermine the conservation potential of tropical production forests.
Expecting seasonally deciduous forests that require intensive silviculture to secure …

Little is known about post-fire tropical montane forest succession in Indonesia. It is an
important step to understand whether forests are recovering and if there is a need for …

Lianas play significant ecological roles in tropical forest ecosystems, so knowledge of the
factors that affect them is key to forest management. Nonetheless, there is limited information …

Because tropical dry forests have been disturbed by humans more than wetter tropical
forests, there is an urgent need for conservation of the remaining tropical dry forests, and …

A critical component of sustainable forest management is the regeneration of commercially
valuable tree species. Mechanical cleaning with machetes and chainsaws, prescribed …

Bolivia, one of the poorest nations in the Americas, is a world leader in ecologically sound
and socially just management of natural tropical forest, as certified by the Forest …

While tropical forests continue to be cleared at alarming rates, the debate over how best to
conserve them often proceeds without a clear understanding of the trade-offs that result from …