Proceedings of the session on tropical forestry for people of the Pacific, XVII Pacific Science Congress; May 27-28, 1991

Abstract

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.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the session on tropical forestry for people of the Pacific, XVII Pacific Science Congress; May 27-28, 1991

• Tropical forestry research at the USDA Forest Service's Institute of Pacific Island Forestry
• Forestry research in Asia and Pacific
• Management of tropical forests for products and energy
• Holistic forest and wildlife management in Hawaii -- is it possible?
• The South Pacific Forestry Development Programme
• Polycyclic selection system for the tropical rainforests of northern Australia
• Management and utilization of forest resources in Papua New Guinea
• Culture and resource management: factors affecting forests
• People and forests in East Kalimantan
• Forest biological diversity interactions with resource utilization
• Evaluating long-term cumulative hydrologic effects of forest management: a conceptual approach
• Fire management in central America
• Soil Taxonomy and land evaluation for forest establishment
• Cuticular hydrocarbons for species determination of tropical termites
• Role of decaying logs and other organic seedbeds in natural regeneration of Hawaiian forest species on abandoned montane pasture
• Use classification of mangrove areas, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
• Biological Control of Introduced Weeds of Native Hawaiian Forests

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, 1991. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-129. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 88 p