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Many estimates suggest that the world's forests are home to more than 50% of terrestrial biodiversity, yet temperate and tropical forests face numerous threats, including agricultural and industrial expansion, climate change, non sustainable management, and pollution. If forests and their diversity of living organisms are to be conserved, there is a need to measure and monitor biodiversity, in order that the impact to human activities and the efficacy of conservation measures can be assessed. As the concept of biodiversity covers the range of life itself, from genes to ecosystems, measurement and monitoring is extremely complicated. This book contains 24 papers selected from among those presented at a IUFRO symposium on the subject of "Measuring and monitoring biodiversity in tropical[...]

Many estimates suggest that the world's forests are home to more than 50% of terrestrial biodiversity, yet temperate and tropical forests face numerous threats, including agricultural and industrial expansion, climate change, non sustainable management, and pollution. If forests and their diversity of living organisms are to be conserved, there is a need to measure and monitor biodiversity, in order that the impact to human activities and the efficacy of conservation measures can be assessed. As the concept of biodiversity covers the range of life itself, from genes to ecosystems, measurement and monitoring is extremely complicated. This book contains 24 papers selected from among those presented at a IUFRO symposium on the subject of "Measuring and monitoring biodiversity in tropical and temperate forests", hosted by the royal forest department of Thailand, at Chiang Mai, August 27th - september 2nd 1994. The papers were selected to give as broad a coverage
as possible of key topics, including principales of measuring and monitoring biodiversity (8 papers), genetic diverity (6 papers), species and ecosystem diversity (5 papers), and methodology (5 papers). Forest trees are the subjects of many papers, but also included are papers dealing with diversity of arthropods, microfungi, birds and butterflies, and gibbons, and other dealing with the entire range of biodiversity.