Sustainability and Biodiversity of Tropical Ecosystems

1999 Spring Symposium

Reading List

Adela Baer, Oregon State University, Indigenous Malaysians, forest malaria, and 'moolah'

A. Baer. 1999. Health, Disease, and Survival: A biomedical and genetic analysis of the Orang Asli of Malaysia. Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, 223 pp.

Lim Hin Fui. 1997. Orang Asli, Forest and Development. Forest Research Institute, Kepong, Malaysia (Malayan Forest Records No. 43.) 187 pp.

 Kamaljit Bawa, University of Massachusetts, Sustainable Use of Tropical Forests: Where Do We Go from Here?
Bawa, K. S. and R. Seidler. 1998. Natural forest management and conservation of biodiversity in tropical forests. Conservation Biology 12: 46-55.

Bawa, K.S., S. Lele, K. S. Murali, and B. Ganesan. 1998. Extraction of non-timber forest products of Biligiri Rangan Hills, India: Monitoring of a community based project. In: K. Saterson, R. Margoluis, and N. Salafsky (eds.) Measuring Conservation Impact: Proceedings from a Symposium at the 1996 Joint Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology and the Ecological Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island. Biodiversity Support Program, Washington, D.C.

 David Peart, Dartmouth College, Density dependence and the maintenance of tree species diversity in Bornean rain forest
Gannon, C.H., D.R. Peart, and M. Leighton. 1998. Tree species diversity in commercially logged Bornean rainforest. Science 281: 1366-1368.

Webb, C.O. and D.R. Peart. 1999. Seedling density dependence promotes coexistence of Bornean rainforest trees. Ecology, in press.

Peart, D.R. 1996. The sustainable management of ran forest lands: An overview of research at a major tropical rain forest national park. Tropical Biodiversity 3: 145-155.

 David Perry, Oregon State University, Malama i ka Lokahi: Restoring land and soul in Hawai'i
Berry, W. 1992. Conservation and Local Economy. Chapter 1 in Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community. Pantheon.

 Burrows, C.K.P.M. . 1989. Hawaiian conservation values and practices. pp203-213 in CP Stone and DB Stone (eds) Conservation Biology in Hawai'i . University of Hawaii Press.

Berry, T. 1988. Chapter 4 Creative Energy. The Dream of the Earth. Sierra Club Books.
 
 

 J. Boone Kaufmann, Oregon State University, Biodiversity in peril: The effects of deforestation and fire in the Brazilian Amazon
Guild, L. S, J.B. Kauffman, L.J. Ellingson, D.L. Cummings, E.A. Castro, R.E. Babbitt, and D.E Ward. 1998. Dynamics associated with  total aboveground biomass, C, nutrient pools and biomass burning of  primary forest and pasture in Rondonia during SCAR-B. J. Geophysical  Research (103:32,091-32,100).
Kauffman, J.B., D.L. Cummings, and D.E. Ward. 1998.  Fire in the  Brazilian Amazon: 2.  Biomass, nutrient pools and losses in cattle  pastures. Oecologia 3: 415-427).

Kauffman, J. B., D. L. Cummings, D. E. Ward and R. Babbitt.  1995.  Fires in the Brazilian Amazon: Biomass, nutrient pools, and losses in slashed primary forests.  Oecologia 104:397-408.

Skole. et al. 1995.  Physical and human dimensions of deforestation in Amazonia. Bioscience. 44: 314-321


 Phil DeVries, University of Oregon, Comparative diversity of tropical rainforest butterfly communities in space and time

DeVries, P. J., D. Murray and R. Lande. 1997. Species diversity in vertical, horizontal, and temporal dimensions of a fruit-feeding butterfly community in an Ecuadorian ranforest. Biol. J. Lin. Soc. 62: 343-364.

DeVries, P. J. 1994. Patterns of butterfly diversity and promising topics in natural history and ecology. pp. 187-194. IN: MacDade, L., K. S. Bawa, G. Hartshorn, and H. Hespenheide (eds.), La Selva: ecology and natural history of a Neotropical Rainforest. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 

 Mary Stockdale, Mulawaran University, Destroyers or Defenders of the Forest? Communities in the Interior of Indonesian Borneo
Sunderlin, W.D. and Resosudarmo, I.A.P., 1996. Rates and causes of deforestation in Indonesia: Towards a resolution of the ambiguities. CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 9. Centre for International Forestry Research  (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
(http://www.cgiar.org/cifor/publications/occpaper/occpaper9.html)
Dove, M. R. 1996. So far from power, so near the forest: A structural analysis of gain and blame in tropical forest development. In: Padoch, C. and Peluso, N. (Eds), Borneo in transition: People, forests, conservation and development. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

De Jong, W., 1997. Developing swidden agriculture and the threat of biodiversity loss. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 62:187-197.