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General Overview -- Ecology and Physiology of Dipterocarpaceae -- Forest Genetics for Sustainable Forest Management -- Recent Developments in Vegetative Propagation Techniques and Their Application for Tropical Forest Trees -- The Significance of Mycorrhizae in Forest Ecosystems -- Plantation Forestry in the Tropics -- Propagation Technique for Tropical Forest Trees -- Vegetative Propagation of Dipterocarp Species by Stem Cuttings Using a Very Simple Technique -- Assessment of the Relative Amenability to Vegetative Propagation by Leafy Cuttings of 14 Tropical and Subtropical Eucalyptus and Corymbia Species -- Production of Cuttings in a Peat Swamp Species from Sarawak, Malaysia -- Developments in Dipterocarp Propagation Research in the Philippines -- An Updated Overview of Advances in Somatic Embryogenesis in Forest Trees -- Comparative Studies on the Survival and Growth of Seedlings and in Vitro-Raised Plants of Shorea robusta and Dipterocarpus turbinatus -- Tissue Culture of Swietenia macrophylla King (Big-Leaf Mahogany) -- Micropropagation of Shorea roxburghii and Gmelina arborea by Shoot-Apex Culture -- Tree Tissue Culture and Ex Vitro Sand Rooting for Reforestation -- Use of Mycorrhizae Symbiosis for Dipterocarp Forests -- Mycorrhizal Research in Malaysian Plantation Forestry -- Remarks on the Mycorrhizae of Some Tree Species in Vietnam -- Mycorrhizal Formation and Growth of Shorea leprosula in Bukit Suharto After Using Charcoal and Rockphosphate -- Inoculation Method of Scleroderma columnare onto Dipterocarps -- Competitiveness of Two Strains of Pisolithus tinctorius on Seedlings of Three Dipterocarp Species Under Nursery and Field Conditions -- Ectomycorrhizas of Dipterocarps in Logged-Over Forests and Plantations -- Man-Made Forests and Biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific Region -- The Role of Industrial Forest Plantations in Supporting Pulp and Paper Industries: A Case Study in South Sumatra, Indonesia -- Planting Techniques and Growth of Dipterocarps in an Abandoned Secondary Forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia -- Effect of Enrichment Planting on Restoring the Logged-Over Dipterocarps in a Tropical Rainforest of Central Sumatra -- Effects of Periodic Drought on Gas Exchange and Phyllode Water Status of Acacia mangium and A. auriculiformis Growing on Sand Tailings -- Reforestation and Biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific Region -- Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forests: Socioeconomic Problems with Farm-Forestry of Rainforest Timber Production in North Queensland. This book is intended to be a record of the Biotechnology-Assisted Re/Afforestation Project in the Asia-Pacific Region (BIO-REFOR) since 1992, conducted in cooperation with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (lUFRO). The purpose of the project is to promote exchanges of information of fundamental research on indigenous species in the Asia-Pacific Region in order to restore natural forests. The production, cultivation, and maintenance of forest tree species provide highly sustainable production systems that conserve soils, the microenvironment, and biodiversity The key technology for biomass production of forests is propagation via micropropagation or traditional propagation. However, there are many recalcitrant species among useful forest trees to be propagated in large numbers. Recent advances in mycorrhizal technology and in vitro culture have made it possible to commercially propagate useful trees for re/afforestation. In this book, comprehensive information is provided on propagation, mycorrhizal inoculation, and reforestation of economically and environmentally important forest trees, information that usually is available only in widely scattered resources. Here, we include a wide area of the ecology and physiology of dipterocarps as a general overview, and then cover propagation techniques, mycorrhizal symbiosis, man-made forests, and biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific region. |
