Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests.

More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity and carbon losses. Restoration could accelerate recovery of aboveground carbon density (ACD), but adoption of restoration is constrained by cost and uncertainties over effectiveness. We report a long-term comparison of ACD recovery rates between naturally regenerating and actively restored logged tropical forests.

Governance change and institutional adaptation: a case study from Harenna forest, ethiopia.

Many common pool resources have traditionally been managed through intricate local governance arrangements. Over time, such arrangements are confronted with manifold political, social, economic and ecological changes. However, the ways in which local governance arrangements react to such changes are poorly understood.

Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention.

Using reduced-impact timber-harvesting practices in legally logged tropical forests would reduce global carbon emissions by 0.16 Gt/year at a modest cost and with little risk of "leakage" (increased carbon emissions elsewhere).

Colonization of Sitka spruce stumps by decay-causing hymenomycetes in paired inoculations.

Sitka spruce stumps were inoculated with decay fungi using colonized sawdust or dowel inoculum to investigate colonization in paired combinations. Estimates of domain sizes were made in the top 15cm of stump after 13-14 or 21-23 months with sawdust or dowel inoculations, respectively. None of the co-inoculated species prevented colonization by Heterobasidion annosum; sapwood colonization by Resinicium bicolor may limit growth of H.