Logging has been hypothesized to have long-term effects on plant communities throughout the world. Quantifying the effects of disturbances such as logging on patterns of plant diversity and composition is a fundamental question in ecology and conservation. In this dissertation I…
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The first essay analyzes the impact of two positive international trade policies on tropical deforestation in Indonesia: (1) a special incentives treatment under the current European Union (EU) Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for countries that meet the International Tro…
In Sabah, Malaysia, pioneer trees characterize secondary forests resulting from selective logging. To explore the role of pioneer trees in logging recovery, I investigated seed and microsite limitations to recruitment of pioneer and persistent species in primary and logged fores…
This study reports forest structure, regeneration and the soil properties from unlogged and logged forest in the Bulungan Research Forest, Malinau District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Four sites were compared by using four 1-ha replicate plots in each of primary forest (PF), 5,…
In many areas of the developing world, the continued overexploiting forest resources has the potential to have significant detrimental impacts be placed on sustainable forest management (SFM) can help communities and organizations responsibly manage and utilize the remaining for…
Michigan’s landscape has undergone significant alterations due to human activities during the nineteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century, Michigan had become a leading lumber producer in the United States. However, by the turn of the twentieth century, the logging industr…