7 - 11 October 2018 - Bali

Managing forests in a sustainable way, halting deforestation and restoring degraded forests around the world are actions that are urgently required...

Large-area forest inventories are often undertaken following a stratified random or systematic design. Yet the strata rarely correspond to the reporting areas of interest (domains) over which the country wants to report specific variables. The process is exemplified by a country aiming to use...

The global effort to rehabilitate and restore destroyed mangrove forests is unable to keep up with the high mangrove deforestation rates, which exceed the average pace of global deforestation. Although facilitation theory presents new possibilities for the restoration of heavily degraded mangrove...

Interactions between species of different trophic levels have long been recognized as fundamental processes in ecology. Although mounting evidence indicates that plant species diversity (PSD) or plant genetic diversity (PGD) can influence the plant-associated arthropod community, these two...

As sustainability goes mainstream, more and more companies are keen to show off their credentials by adopting different types of certification, labels and ethical commitments. The number of different schemes and voluntary initiatives has grown exponentially in recent years. The Ecolabel Index, the...

Carbon pricing, which includes carbon tax, emission trading systems and carbon offset mechanisms, is the main economic instrument to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions responsible for global climate change. The academic literature on carbon pricing is rich due to hundreds of studies carried...

Objective: In order to objectively reflect the regulation of the temperature inside and outside the forest, the characteristics of temperature change in different stands in this paper were explored. Method: The forest temperatures of the Quercus carruth stand, Phyllostachys heterocycla stand,...