[Forest-list] 2011-09-25 NRMI: This Issue: CO2 Sequestration (Part 3 of 4) and Some Other Good Things

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2011-09-25**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue: */CO_2 Sequestration (Part 3 of 4) /*and Some Other Good Things

*BUT FIRST, WON'T YOU PLEASE HELP?*

*Estimating Bamboo Biomass* -- Dr. Timothy Gregoire writes, /I need to 
come up with a way to assess bamboo biomass in Bhutan NFI. I know next 
to nothing about the topic!/ Tim is especially interested in anything 
that has been done to date anywhere in any region of the world. If you 
can assist, please contact Tim at timothy.gregoire at yale.edu 
<mailto:timothy.gregoire at yale.edu>.

*Identifying Dominant Land Use*-- I am working on a paper comparing land 
cover and land use. While the web is full of material on determining 
land cover, land use is more of a challenge. If you know of any good 
references on determining land use from remote sensing or other sources 
in addition to through land cover, would you kindly let me know. Thank 
you in advance for your kind assistance. Cheers, Gyde (gyde at comcast.net 
<mailto:gyde at comcast.net>)

*Sustainable Forest Resources Management Planning*--**Matteo Mura 
writes/, I am an Italian graduate in forestry and environmental science. 
I am searching scholarship to do a PhD in forestry focused on 
sustainable forest resources management planning and tools to implement 
it, mainly remote sensing, GIS, growth & yield modelling and so on. I 
find that much of the information I have access to is unclear, 
repetitive and outdated. /If you can help Matteo, please contact him at 
mur.teo at gmail.com <mailto:mur.teo at gmail.com>/./

*CO_2 SEQUESTRATION (Part 3 of 4)/- /*Last summer I was seeking any 
publications on what various countries are doing in regard to carbon 
sequestration activities involving forests. I was particularly 
interested in those that applied to Costa Rica. Here are some sites that 
may be of interest.

Kavi, K.S. 2001? *Carbon Sequestration as Greenhouse Gas Mitigation 
Policy*. 8 p. http://coe.mse.ac.in/pdfs/coebreifs/KaviKumar.pdf

Kleinn, Christoph et al. 2001. *Pilot forest inventory in Costa Rica for 
the Global Forest Survey GFS* Initiative of FAO FRA. Report to FAO FRA. 
http://www.fao.org/forestry/15543-0194951258eb2f005a62668ebc1b7553d.pdf

Körner, Christian 2004. *Through enhanced tree dynamics carbon dioxide 
enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon.* Phil. Trans. R. 
Soc. Lond. B 359: 493-498. 
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/359/1443/493.full.pdf

Land Assurance n.d..*Costa Rica Reforestation Investment. 
*http://www.landassurance.com/ReforestationFinancialInformation.asp

Liao, C., et al. 2010*. Ecosystem Carbon Stock Influenced by Plantation 
Practice: Implications for Planting Forests as a Measure of Climate 
Change Mitigation*. PLoS ONE, 5 5 
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010867

Lovgren, Stefan 2008. *Costa Rica Aims to Be 1st Carbon-Neutral 
Country.* National Geographic News. 7 March 2008. 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080307-costa-rica.html

Lund, H. Gyde; Thomas, Charles E. 1989. *A primer on stand and forest 
inventory designs. *Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-54. Washington, DC: U.S. 
Department of Agriculture; Forest Service. 96 p. PDF: 4.1 MB 
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/ftcol/publications/outofprint/wo_54.pdf. 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/ftcol/publications/outofprint/wo_54.pdf>__

MacDicken, K.G. 1997. *A Guide to Monitoring Carbon Storage in Forestry 
and Agroforestry Projects.* Winrock. 87 p. 
http://www.winrock.org/clean_energy/files/carbon.pdf

McPhaul, John 2008. *Global Warming Moves Costa Rica Coffee Land 
Higher.* 25 June 2008.
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2008/06/25/global-warming-moves-costa-rica-coffee-land-higherglobal-warming-moves-costa-rica-coffee-land-higher/

*Measuring Carbon without Destroying 
Trees*http://www.biology-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2006/measuring-carbon-without-destroying-trees.html

Miles, Steven. 2007. *How Many Trees Should I Plant To Offset My CO_2 
Emissions?* LinkedIn. 
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/non-profit/non-profit-management/NNP_MGM/16712-3593224

MINAE; PNUMA. 2005. *Costa Rica 2005, Indicadores. Iniciativa 
Latinoamericana y Caribeña para el de­sarrollo sostenible: Indicadores 
de Seguimiento.* Observatorio del Desarrollo -- Universidad de Costa 
Rica 2005. http://www.pnuma.org/deat1/pdf/ILAC%20Costa%20Rica.pdf

MINAET; IMN. 2009. *Costa Rica 2009: Segunda Comunicación Nacional a la 
Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático.* 
Ministerio del Ambiente, Energía y Telecomunicaciones MINAET and 
Instituto Meteorológico Nacional IMN. Primera Edición 2009. 264 p. 
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/cornc2.pdf

MIVAH, et al. 2006. *GEO Gran Área Metropolitana del Valle Central de 
Costa Rica: Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente Urbano*. San José, Costa 
Rica. 264 pp. http://www.pnuma.org/deat1/pdf/2006GEOGAMdeCostaRica.pdf.

Monge-Nájera, Julián; Pérez-Gómez, Gabriela. 2010. *Urban vegetation 
change after a hundred years in a tropical city San José de Costa Rica. 
Biol*. Trop. Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744 Vol. 58 4: 1367-1386, 
December 2010 
http://www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol58-4/25_Monge_Urban_Vegetation_Change.pdf

Moura-Costa, Pedro 1996. *Tropical forestry practices for carbon 
sequestration.* In: Dipterocarp Forest EcoSystems -- Towards Sustainable 
Management. Schulte, A. & Schone, D. Eds.. World Scientific, Singapore: 
308-334. 
http://www.ecosecurities.com/Assets/3177/Pubs_Tropical%20forestry%20practices%20for%20carbon%20sequestration.pdf

Namayanga, Lemmy Nenge. 2002. *Estimating terrestrial carbon sequestered 
in aboveground woody biomass from remotely sensed data the use of sebal 
and casa algorithms in a semi-arid area Serowe, Botswana. *Thesis. 64 p. 
http://www.itc.nl/library/papers/msc_2002/nrm/nenge_namayanga.pdf

PAX Natura. n.d.b. *Payment for Environmental Services PES Program* 
Highlights. http://www.paxnatura.org/CostaRicanPESProgram.htm

Pearson, Timothy R.H. et al. 2007. *Measurement Guidelines for the 
Sequestration of Forest Carbon.* Northern Research Station. General 
Technical Report NRS-18. 47 p. 
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs18.pdf

Perugini, Lucia. 2005. *Carbon sequestration through reforestation 
projects in China and Argentina: a multiple benefit approach. 
*http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/05/carbon-seq/Poster%20167.pdf

Petersen, Laura. 2010. *New map shows measuring carbon in Amazon is 
feasible* Greenwire, 09/14/2010 
http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2010/09/14/7

Peterson, Kevin 2008. *Part 5 -- Does Reforestation Contribute to Global 
Warming? -- A second look at the Livermore Study.* Eco Preservation 
Society. 12 February 2008. 
http://ecopreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/does-reforestation-contribute-to-global-warming-a-second-look-at-the-livermore-study/

Planetearth 2008. *Measuring the carbon jungle* 
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/features/story.aspx?id=167

PNUMA; MINAE 2002. *GEO Costa Rica. Una perspectiva sobre el medio 
am­biente*. Costa Rica. 162 pp. 
http://www.pnuma.org/deat1/pdf/GEOCostaRica2002.pdf

Ramirez, Octavio A.; Carpio, Carlos E.; Ortiz, Rosalba; Finnegan, Brian. 
2000 *Economic Value of the Carbon Sink Services of Tropical Secondary 
Forests and its Management Implications.* Annual Meeting of the American 
Agricultural Economics Association, Tampa, FL, July 3-August 
2000.Http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/21776/1/sp00ra03.pdf 
<http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/21776/1/sp00ra03.pdf>

*SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Graham, Flora. 2011. *Colourful allure of sudden oak death.* New 
Science. 18:02 9 September 2011. 
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/09/camera-reveals-tree-disease.html. 
 From Diana Antoni Lund.

Guo, Q.F. 2011. *Counting "exotics".* NeoBiota. 9: 71-73. 
http://www.forestthreats.org/publications/asheville/Counting_exotics.pdf/at_download/file 


Horton, Jennifer. 2010?. *How will global warming affect autumn?* 
Howstuffworks. 
http://science.howstuffworks.com/global-warming-autumn.htm/printable.

Izquierdo, A.E., et al. 2011. *Implications of rural-urban migration for 
conservation of the Atlantic forest and urban growth in Misiones, 
Argentina (1970-2030).* Ambio 40(3):298-309. Abstract. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21644458

Jackson D.L. 2000. *Guidance on the interpretation of the Biodiversity 
Broad Habitat Classification (terrestrial and freshwater types): 
Definitions and the relationship with other classifications.* 
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-2656

Jarrad, F.C., et al. 2011. *Ecological aspects of biosecurity 
surveillance design for the detection of multiple invasive animal 
species.* Biol. Invasions 13(4):803-818. Abstract. 
http://www.crcplantbiosecurity.com.au/publications/npb1546

Jennings, Michael et al. 2002.*Standards for associations and alliances 
of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. *The Ecological Society 
of America Vegetation Classification Panel. Version 1.0. 126 p. 
http://vegbank.org/vegdocs/panel/standards_v1.pdf

Jones, J.P.G., et al. 2011. *The why, what, and how of global 
biodiversity indicators beyond the 2010 target*. Conserv. Biol. 
25(3):450-457. Abstract. 
http://www.mendeley.com/research/global-biodiversity-indicators-beyond-2010-target/ 


Joppa, L.N.; Pfaff, A. 2011. *Global protected area impacts*. Proc. Roy. 
Soc. B 278(1712):1633-1638. 
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/11/16/rspb.2010.1713.full.pdf 


Kachhwaha, T.S. 1990.*Use of Landsat TM data in location of sites for 
afforestation programmes in India. *3 p.
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/aars/acrs/1990/D/fore004.asp

Kangas, Annika; Maltamo, Matti Editors. 2006. *Forest Inventory: 
Methodology and Applications* Managing Forest Ecosystems. Springer. 362 
p. 
http://www.addebook.com/tech/astronomy-geography/forest-inventory-methodology-and-applications_1025.html__

*KEEPING UP-TO-DATE -- PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS.*See 
also 
http://botany.si.edu/puhttps://www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm 
<http://botany.si.edu/pubs/bcn/links.cfm>, http://scholar.google.com/, 
and**/Directory of open access journals. 
/http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.

16-20 October 2011. *Applications for Assessing Forest Ecosystems*. 
SilviLaser 2011.University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. SilviLaser 
2011 brings together research scientists and practitioners from around 
the world to share their experience in the development and application 
of LiDAR for forest assessment and inventory and strengthen and develop 
new linkages between researchers, data providers and product end-users. 
For details, see http://www.silvilaser2011.com/. From Jan Rombouts, 
ForestrySA.

*WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC*. -- See also: 
http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and 
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/ 
<http://www.iufro.org/info/discover/noticeboard/>.

18-19 October 2011. *Restoring the West Conference 2011: Sustaining 
Forests, Woodlands, and Communities through Biomass Use*. Utah State 
University, Logan, Utah, USA. The conference will examine how woody 
biomass harvest can facilitate land restoration projects while supplying 
much-needed fuel for renewable energy. Talks will focus on how biomass 
harvest can occur in ways that improve the ecological and financial 
feasibility of restoration projects. The conference will have a dual 
focus on the ecological effects of woody biomass harvest, and the 
technology of woody biomass harvest and use. Discussions will appeal to 
land managers and owners, researchers, and business people. For more 
information, visit: http://www.restoringthewest.org/. From Barbara 
Conkling, USFS FHM.

*MOVING AHEAD -- OPPORTUNITIES*-- See also: Scholarships-Positions - 
http://scholarship-positions.com/, Forestry, Arboriculture, Agriculture, 
Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at 
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, 
Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding 
Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/, 
Naturesjobs.com http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html, The Job 
Seekers Guide for International and Environmental Careers 
http://ejobs.home.att.net/ and Scholarship Listing 
http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/.

*MSc European Forestry scholarships *- Generous Erasmus Mundus 
scholarships of 20,000 -- 48,000 euro are available on a competitive 
basis. The MSc European Forestry is a top-class taught master's 
programme delivered by seven prestigious European universities in 
partnership with a Chinese and Brazilian university. MSc European 
Forestry welcomes people from around the world to apply. For further 
information, please visit: http://www.europeanforestry.net. From Mani 
Ram Banjade, Nepalese Foresters List.

*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/**//*

-- 
H. Gyde Lund
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