Developing DNA-based timber tracking in Indonesia: Interview with Dr Anto Rimbawanto
DNA-based methods are increasingly used to help tackle illegal logging which is estimated to result in losses of revenues of 10-15 billion US$ in the affected timber-producing countries. These…
MoreRegulating the quality of seedlings for forest restoration: lessons from the National Greening Program in the Philippines
The use of low quality planting material is one of the major reasons for the limited success of past reforestation programs in the Philippines and elsewhere in the tropics. In the Philippines, a…
MoreFinding needles in a genomic haystack: targeted capture identifies clear signatures of selection in a nonmodel plant species
Teasing apart neutral and adaptive genomic processes and identifying loci that are targets of selection can be difficult, particularly for nonmodel species that lack a reference genome. However,…
MoreSpecial Issue: Ecology and silviculture of Dipterocarp forests in Malaysia
This special issue presents a selection of the latest research findings from two decades of international collaboration between the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), the Japan…
MoreContributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations
The area of forest plantations is increasing worldwide helping to meet timber demand and protect natural forests. However, with global change, monospecific plantations are increasingly vulnerable to…
MoreForests and global change: what can genetics contribute to the major forest management and policy challenges of the twenty-first century?
The conservation and sustainable use of forests in the twenty-first century pose huge challenges for forest management and policy. Society demands that forests provide a wide range of ecosystem…
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