Sustainability and Diversity of Forest Ecosystems

Part 1. Forest utilization and its impacts on biodiversity

1. Legacies of the past in the present-day forest biodiversity: a review of past land-use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity
Martin Hermy, Kris Verheyen

2. Degradation of longicorn beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Disteniidae) fauna caused by conversion from broad-leaved to man-made conifer stands of Cryptomeria japonica (Taxodiaceae) in central Japan
Shun’ichi Makino, Hideaki Goto, Motohiro Hasegawa, Kimiko Okabe, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takenari Inoue, Isamu Okochi

3. Genetic and reproductive consequences of forest fragmentation for populations of Magnolia obovata

Yuji Isagi, Ryunosuke Tateno, Yu Matsuki, Akira Hirao, Sonoko Watanabe, Mitsue Shibata

4. Ecological function losses caused by monotonous land use induce crop raiding by wildlife on the island of Yakushima, southern Japan
Naoki Agetsuma

5. Degradation and loss of forest land and land-use changes in Sarawak, East Malaysia: a study of native land use by the Iban
Masahiro Ichikawa

Part 2. The basis and practice of sustainable management of forests and biodiversity

6. Sustainable use of tropical forests by reduced-impact logging in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
Peter Lagan, Sam Mannan, Hisashi Matsubayashi

7. When is it optimal to exhaust a resource in a finite time?
Ken-Ichi Akao, Y. Hossein Farzin

8. Bio-economic resource management under threats of environmental catastrophes
Yacov Tsur, Amos Zemel

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Biodiversity, Forestry Management, Landscape Ecology, Ecosystems, Forestry