Study of planting technique and management of Dendrocalamus membranaceus forest for establishment of large-scale plantations Tran Nguyen Giang, Luu Pham Hoanh Hoang Vinh Tuong,Doan Chuong & staff of Thanh Hoa Dendrocalamus Station INTRODUCTION Dendrocalamus membranaceus is a valuable bamboo species found mainly in Thanh Hoa province. Local people have had experience in growing this species on old burnt-over land. To meet the requirement to establish large-scale plantations, there … [Read more...]

Soekotjo and Eka Kusdiandra Wardhana Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta 55281 Indonesia Phone/Fax: 62-274-545639, E-mail: itto-gmu@yogya.wasantara.net.id Abstract Tropical rain forest in Indonesia is increasingly degraded at the rate estimated at about 2 millions hectare per year. The Government of Indonesia has placed much emphasis on the reforestation of degraded forest. The target is to establish commercial plantation, and this could be considered as one of … [Read more...]

Potential of wildlings of Parashorea malaanonan as planting stock Aminuddin bin Mohamad and Jameri Tahir University Malaysia Sabah, Locked bag 2073, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; and Forestry Department Sabah, Sandakan, Sabah Abstract The objective of the experiment was to explore the potential of increasing the re-establishment success of potted wildlings with nursery techniques and the effect of rock phosphate fertilizer on the growth of these wildlings after being transplanted to … [Read more...]

Ectomycorrhizal inoculation of Anisoptera thurifera (Blanco) Blume and Shorea guiso (Blanco) Blume with ectomycorrhizal fungi in Philippine red soil NS Aggangan1, JS Aggangan2, JCO Bulan2 and CAS, Limos2 1National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna 4031, Philippines: Email nea@laguna.net; 2Former Students, Philippine Science High School, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines   Abstract   Rooted cuttings of … [Read more...]

Portia Gamboa-Lapitan College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Banos Tel. 063-49-5363572, E-mail: portialapitan@yahoo.com and Jung Oh Hyun College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea E-mail: hyunjung@snu.ac.kr Abstract The genetic diversity of P. malaanonan was previously assessed from isozyme analysis of 61 individuals spread in two elevational sites within Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve (MFR) to identify … [Read more...]

J.L. Zhang1,2, L.Z Meng1,2, K.F. Cao1,3 & Z.F. Xu1 1Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China 666303 2GraduateSchool of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, China 100039 3Author to whom correspondence should be addressed (caokf@xtbg.ac.cn) Abstract Photosynthetic light responses, diurnal gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence were measured from canopy leaves of four Chinese dipterocarp species, Dipterocarpus … [Read more...]

Introduction In the global market, Philippine dipterocarps are well known by their international trade name, Philippine mahogany. This group of tree species has played an important role as the primary export commodity and dollar earner of the Philippines for a long time. Of these, Parashorea malaanonan belongs to the timber group of Light Red Philippine Mahogany. The volume of log export for this species, however, had dramatically plunged during the last decade (Forestry Statistics, FMB, … [Read more...]

Forest Science Institute of Vietnam Research Centre for Forest Ecology and Environment Tel./fax: +884 8389 434; Email: ttsinhthai@hn.vnn.vn; Web. www.rcfee.org.vn 2005   Methods for quantitative analysis of flora species biodiversity indices Huy, L.Q. 2005.. Science & Technology Journal of Agriculture & Rural Development. 3 + 4: 117-121. Analysis and classification of hyperspectral data for mapping land degradation: An application in southern Spain D.P. … [Read more...]

Fokienia hodginsii is a conifer belonging to the Cupressaceae. The genus Fokienia is mono-specific and the species is currently distributed throughout Vietnam, southern China and northern Laos. Due to its extensive range the species maintains Low Risk/Near Threatened status under IUCN (2002) guidelines. However, extensive use of the species within Vietnam suggests that Fokienia might be subject to a higher threat than was previously thought. The timber is light, aromatic and resinous and … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION The genus Eucalyptus L’Herit of the family Myrtaceae includes about 500 Eucalyptus species having natural distribution mainly in Australia (Eldridge et al., 1993). Only Eucalyptus deglupta Blume occurs naturally in the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the species E. urophylla occurs on seven islands of Indonesia namely Adonara, Alor, Flores, Lembata, Pentar, Timor and Wetar. Eucalypts are very important plantation tree species and by the year 2000 their … [Read more...]