This report records the experience of attending the 'Seminar on Scientific and Technological Innovation Capacity and Standardization of Bamboo Industry for Developing Countries 2017' from 5-25 May 2017. The purpose of this scientific seminar was to introduce the use of bamboo in China as a major...

Research is reported on rubber breeding, diseases, weed control in rubber forest plantations, exploitation, agronomy, rubber wood forest plantations, agricultural economics, biotechnology and strategic research, and on R&D support for the Malaysian rubber products industry.

Examines the economics of combining timber growing with the sale of (a) sites for holiday homes and (b) camping ground facilities, in Blodgett Experimental Forest, California. KEYWORDS: forest economics \ forest economics \ forests managed as multiple use forests \ forest recreation

Gives results of an analysis of the structure, increment and yield of mixed Oak coppice forest at three localities in Macedonia. The economic limit of wood production, i.e. the stand age at which the value of the wood equals the production costs, was determined for each locality; it ranged from 32...

In Whitaker's Forest, California, notable for large specimens of Sequoia gigantea, a serious fire hazard has arisen from dead wood on the ground and a dense understorey (especially of Abies [? concolor] and Libocedrus decurrens, many of which have died from overcrowding) that developed after...

A detailed description of the association, with an assessment of its economic importance. KEYWORDS: plant ecology \ Quercus cerris \ vegetation types \ forests \ Quercus frainetto Q. conferta \ vegetation types