Environmental Forest Science: Proceedings of the IUFRO Division 8 Conference Environmental Forest Science, held 19–23 October 1998, Kyoto University, Japan

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
IUFRO: History and Role in the 21st Century....Pages 1-5
Toward the New Stage of Environmental Forest Science Research in the 21 st Century: IUFRO Status and Perspective....Pages 7-14
Environment and Production — Two Sides of the Same Coin or Incompatible Goals?....Pages 15-27
Integrating Environmental Research into Forest Ecosystems Planning....Pages 29-37
Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development....Pages 39-49
Tactical Sediment Yield Control to Mitigating Terrestrial and/or Aquatic Environmental Impacts of Forest Road Construction....Pages 51-66
The Environment in Planning a Forest Road Network....Pages 67-73
Forest Disturbance and Efficiency of Vehicle Logging Operations through Selective Cutting Harvest in a Natural Forest....Pages 75-81
Status of Waste Generation, Disposal Ways and Poplar Species as a Landfill Cover in South Korea....Pages 83-92
Environmentally Friendly Resource Use — Taiwan’s Experience in Pulp and Paper Production....Pages 93-106
Forests as Ecosystems Within a Changing Environment....Pages 107-117
Carbon Absorption by Temperate Forest Ecosystems: Problems and Responses to a Changing Environment....Pages 119-127
Economic Value of the Carbon Sink Services of Costa Rica’s Forestry Plantations....Pages 129-138
Trees and Woodland in a Cultural Landscape: the History of Woods in England....Pages 139-147
Review of Forest Culture Research in Japan: Toward a New Paradigm of Forest Culture....Pages 149-155
Forest Landscapes of the Kanto Region, Japan in the 1880’s and Human Impact on Them....Pages 157-164
Japanese Attitudes Towards Forests According to Comparative Opinion Surveys....Pages 165-171
History, Condition and Management of Floodplain Forest Ecosystems in Europe....Pages 173-186
Ecosystem Management as an Approach for Sustaining Forests and Their Biodiversity....Pages 187-196
Decomposition Processes of Litter Along a Latitudinal Gradient....Pages 197-206
Size Distribution and Carbon-to-Nitrogen Ratios of Size-Fractionated Organic Matter in the Forest Floor of Coniferous and Broadleaved Stands....Pages 207-214
Nitrogen Dynamics of Decomposing Japanese Cedar and Japanese Cypress Litter in Plantation Forests....Pages 215-221
Decomposition Process of Leaf Litter in a Coniferous Forest....Pages 223-230
Changes in Nitrogen and Carbon Fractions of the Decomposing Litters of Bamboo....Pages 231-238
Gross Soil N Transformations in a Coniferous Forest in Japan....Pages 239-244
Topographic Differences in Soil N Transformation Patterns Along a Forest Slope....Pages 245-251
Dynamics of Soil Microbial Activities in Different Vegetation Types of the Seasonally Dry Tropics....Pages 253-260
The Role of Soil Microbial Biomass in Burned Japanese Red Pine Forest....Pages 261-268
Allelopathic Interactions in Forestry Systems....Pages 269-283
Comparative Vegetation Analysis under Multipurpose Plantations....Pages 285-291
Allelopathic Effects of Exotic Tree Species on Microorganisms and Plants in Galicia (Spain)....Pages 293-300
Soil Microorganisms and Phenolics: Their Implication in Spruce Natural Regeneration Failure....Pages 301-307
Allelopathy and Competition in Coniferous Forests....Pages 309-315
Role of Allelopathy in Regulating the Understorey Vegetation of Casuarina Equisetifolia ....Pages 317-323
Long-term Response of Radiata Pine to Phosphate Fertiliser on a Strongly P-Fixing Soil....Pages 325-332
Monitoring Population Viability in Declining Tree Species Using Indicators of Genetic Diversity and Reproductive Success....Pages 333-343
Using GIS to Review Wildlife Habitat Information in the Kii Peninsula, Japan....Pages 345-354
Analysis of Species Hyper-diversity in the Tropical Rain Forests of Indonesia: the Problem of Non-observance....Pages 355-362
Mixed Stands Between Description and Modelling....Pages 363-372
Quantifying Biodiversity The Effect of Sampling Method and Intensity on Diversity Indices....Pages 373-378
Photosynthetic Light Environment of Tropical Lowland Forest and Growth Response of Shorea Leprosula ....Pages 379-386
Growth Performance of Malaysian Tropical Trees under Different Light Regimes....Pages 387-393
Hydrological Effects of Afforestation and Pasture Improvement in Montane Grasslands, South Island, New Zealand....Pages 395-404
Water Balance Modelling on Small Forested Catchments....Pages 405-410
Evaluation of Forest Canopy Shape from Standpoint of Thermal Exchange above Forest....Pages 411-418
Estimating Rates of Nutrient Recovery Following Timber Harvesting in a Second Growth Forest of Peninsular Malaysia....Pages 419-429
Hydrological Variations of Discharge, Soil Loss and Recession Coefficient in Three Small Forested Catchments....Pages 431-438
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Forest Crop to Mitigate Erosion Using a Sediment Delivery Distributed Model....Pages 439-454
A Concept for Runoff Processes on a Steep Forested Hillslope....Pages 455-462
Flow Pathways on Steep Forested Hillslopes: the Tracer, Tensiometer and Trough Approach....Pages 463-474
Intrastorm Fluctuations of Piezometric Head and Soil Temperature within a Steep Forested Hollow....Pages 475-482
Progress Towards Understanding Stormflow Generation in Headwater Catchments....Pages 483-498
Mechanisms of Landslide Triggered Debris Flows....Pages 499-518
Assessment of Failure and Success of Preventing Damages of Debris Flows Caused by Landslide in Laogan Ravine, Yunnan, China....Pages 519-527
The Estimation of the Hazard Potency of Debris Flows and The Step to Step Method....Pages 529-540
Statistical Analysis on the Planimetry of Debris Flow Fans....Pages 541-552
The Largest Debris Flow in the World, Seimareh Landslide, Western Iran....Pages 553-561
Assessment of Hazard Potential of Debris Flows in Relation to the Reclamation of Forests on the Foot of Volcanoes....Pages 563-568
Motion and Fluidization of a Hariharagawa Landslide, South Japan....Pages 569-574
Cyclic-Loading Ring-Shear Tests to Study High-Mobility of Earthquake-Induced-Landslides....Pages 575-582
Initiation of Rapid and Slow Landslides in Experimental Model....Pages 583-590
An Experimental Study on the Rainfall-Induced-Flowslides....Pages 591-598
Computed Powder Avalanche Impact Pressures on a Tunnel-bridge in Au β erfern-Tirol....Pages 599-605
Evaluation of Slope-failure-debris Mass Using a Digital Elevation Model with Stereo Pair Aerophotographs....Pages 607-614
Energy Approach to Evaluation of Grain Crushing....Pages 615-622
Comparison of Shear Behaviour of sandy soils by Ring-Shear Test with Conventional Shear Tests....Pages 623-632
Soil Bioengineering—an Environmental Alternative for Erosion and Torrent Control....Pages 633-640
Forest Fire Prevention Through Prescribed Burning in Acacia Mangium Plantation in South Sumatra, Indonesia....Pages 641-648
Demands on a Nature Orientated Flood Control....Pages 649-658
Back Matter....Pages 659-660