Thanks to Nick Ananin, you can access the FIU archives by sending an e-mail to fiu@visfor.globalnet.co.uk with the subject GET-99_** (where ** is the week of the year number and starts at week 12).
Please note I will be in travel 9-18 July so the next issue of FIU will come out on 23 July. If you need to send me any emails I would appreciate it if you could wait until 19 July to do so. Thanks, Gyde
Contributions for this week's issue of FIU come from Bob Bailey and Mark Buccowich. Thanks!
Elaine Marshall writes: "I am still trying to locate infromation on the species abundance and popultaion distribution of both Prunus africana and Tabernathe iboga. I have managed to locate a fair bit on the chemical composition and use of these two NTFPs, but would appreciate any suggestions that you may have on where to locate data on popultaion status etc." If you have any information to share with Elaine, please contact her directly at: Elaine Marshal, Consultancy Resources Co-ordinator, LTS International Ltd, Pentlands Science Park Bush Loan, Penicuik, Edinburgh. EH26 0PH, UK. Tel +44 131 4405500; Fax +44 131 440 5501. Email: Elaine-Marshall@ltsi.co.uk URL: http://www.ltsi.co.uk
Arner, Sanford L. 1999. Comparison of a fully mapped plot design to thre alternative designs for volume and area estimates using Maine inventory data. Gen. Tech. Report NE-243. Contact: Station Editor, USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Road, Delaware, OH 43015-8640 USA. Tel: +1-740-368-0123. Email: mbuchanan/ne_de@fs.fed.us. Download as a PDF file from http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/ click on the Resources link.
CIAT/UNEP. 1999. Tools for making decisions in Latin America and the Caribbean: Environmental indicators and geographical information systems. UNEP/DEIA/TR.99-3. Price unknown. Contact: Anthony Polak, SMI (Distribution Services) Ltd., P.O. Box 119, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 4TP, UK. Tel: +44-1438-748-111. Fax: +44-1438-748-844. Email: anthony@smibooks.com
Collins, Mary Rose. 1998. The aerial photo source book. Scarecrow Press. 224 p. $45 USD.
Crookston, N.L.; Stage, A.R. 1999. Percent canopy cover and stand structure statistics from the Forest Vegetation Simulator. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-24. 11 p. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West Prospect Rd., Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA.
Mauldin, T.E.; Plantinga, A.J.; Alig, R.J. 1999. Determinants of land use in Maine with projections to 2050. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 16(2):82-88. See abstract at: http://www.safnet.org/pubs/northern/index.html
Remote Sensing Advisory Team. 1998. Implementation of remote sensing for ecosystem management. EM-7140-28. 48 p. USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090 USA.
Schreuder, H.T.; R. Czaplewski and R. G. Bailey. 1999. Combining Mapped and Statistical Data in Forest Ecological Inventory and Monitoring - Supplementing an Existing System. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 56:269-291.
UNEP. 1998. Land Use/Land Cover Chante in South East Asia. UNEP/DEIA/TR.98-3. Price unknown. Contact: Anthony Polak, SMI (Distribution Services) Ltd., P.O. Box 119, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 4TP, UK. Tel: +44-1438-748-111. Fax: +44-1438-748-844. Email: anthony@smibooks.com
van Hess, W.W.S. 1999. Vegetation resources inventory of Southwest Alaska: development and application of an innovative, extensive design. Res. Paper PNW-RP-507. 51 p. USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, P.O. Box 3890, Portland, OR 97208 USA.
6-7 August 1999. Using the proposed national standards for floristic levels of vegetation classification in the United States: associations and alliances. Spokane, Washington, USA. Contact: Ecological Society of America, Dept. 0666, Washington, DC 20073 USA. Tel: +1-202-833-8773. Fax: +1-202-833-8775. Email: esahq@esa.org. URL: http://esa.sdsc.edu/am99info.htm.
14-15 August 1999. Fire on Ice. Khabarovsk, Russia. Contact: Johann G. Goldammer, Fire Ecology Research Group, c/o Freiburg University, PO Box, D-79100 Freiburg, Germany. Fax: ++49-761-808012, Tel: ++49-761-808011 Email: jggold@ruf.uni-freiburg.de .
15-20 August 1999 (reminder) International Conference: World Pristine Forests and their Role in Global Processes. Khabarovsk, Russia. Contact: Dr. Victor Grek at FEFRI, Fax:+ 7 (4212) 216798; Tel. 7 (4212) 217952. E-mail: sergey@niilkh.khabarovsk.su. For list of speakers, registration, etc. see: http://www.agnic.org/mtg/1999/wpf.html
6-10 September 1999. Structure of mountain forests: assessment, impacts, management, modeling. Davos, Switzerland. Contact: Walter Schoenenberger, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Tel: +41-1-739-2252. Fax: +41-1-739-2215. Email: walter.schoenenberger@wsl.ch. URL: http://www.wsl.ch/hazards/rotten/Call1.html.
Fantastic Forest by National Geographic. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forest/
GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY VALUE: a new world map showing the distribution of some of the most highly valued terrestrial biodiversity world-wide (mammals, reptiles, amphibians and seed plants) - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/
Two from the USGS - Topographic Map Symbols http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/
Greenwood Digital Information Products Archive [.pdf, ARC/INFO, .tar, .gzip] http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/
Good overview of satellite based remote sensing - http://www.geografforlaget.dk/course/demoeng/basic/tele1.htm
Internet Directory for Botany: Checklists, Floras, Taxonmic Databases, Vegetation. http://www.systbot.gu.se/mirrors/idb/botflor.html
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If you have any publications, meetings or links that may be of interest to the Forestry community, I would be happy to help you pass along the information. Thanks, Gyde
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