Extended abstracts from the Asia and the Pacific Workshop on Multinational and Transboundary Conservation of Valuable and Endangered Forest Tree Species in Guangzhou, China, 5-7 December 2011. Asia and the Pacific Workshop: Multinational and Transboundary Conservation of Valuable and Endangered Forest Tree Species.
This new IUFRO World Series publication presents the outcome of the latest Asia and the Pacific Workshop organized by APAFRI. Proceedings of previous workshops and symposia of this kind held in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines are also available as IUFRO World Series (24, 27, 29). The workshop provided a platform to exchange and share the critical experiences and knowledge on the conservation of valuable and endangered tree species in the region, as well as to explore potential multinational collaboration and trans-boundary cooperation in related research areas. Management of transboundary landscape for conservation of the Sundarbans biodiversity; Laskar Muqsudur Rahman; Growth and genetic diversity of native tree species exchanged between Vietnam and China; Nguyen Hoang Nghia and Pham Quang Thu; Mixed plantation of Santalum album and Dalbergia odorifera in China ; Xu Daping, Lu Junkun, Liu Xiaojin, Zhang Ningnan and Yang Zengjiang; Strategy for conservation of genetic resources of valuable hardwoods in East and Southeast Asia; Wang Huoran; Plant diversity among Betula alnoides plantations and adjacent natural forests; Zhang Jinfeng, Yang Dejun and Geng Yunfeng; Schleichera oleosa – a case for transboundary conservation; Animesh Sinha and A. K. Mandal; Conservation of valuable and endangered forest tree species in protected area in the Philippines; Portia Gamboa-Lapitan, Manuel L. Castillo, Min Hwan Suh and Don Koo Lee; Conservation of Melia dubia Cav. and Santalum album Linn. by extension and development: Trials in tobacco farms in South India; A.C.Lakshmana; Conservation of genetic resources of sandalwood (Santalum album L. var. album) in Timor Islands; Anto Rimbawanto; Seed characteristics of Xanthoceras sorbifolia in several areas of China; An ChanHoon, Lee HyunSeok, Yin ZhiYang, Li FengRi, Li ChengDe and Yi JaeSeon; Conservation of Aquilaria (Thymelaeaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia; Lau Kah Hoo and Chua L.S.L.; Conservation and protection of Songga tree (Strychnos lucida R Brown) as rare and valuable tree species – A case study in Sumbawa Island, Indonesia; Zuraida, Agus Sukito and Saptadi Darmawan; Community participation in conservation and protection of rare and valuable tree species Sandal wood(Santalum album); Anura De Silva; Germplasm and conservation of rare and endangered tree species endemic to east China; Liu Jun, Jiang Jingmin, Chen Yitai, Sun Honggang and Shao Wenhao; The traditional knowledge survey of plants in Gangwon Province, the Republic of Korea; Lee Hyunseok, An ChanHoon, Yin ZhiYang, Choi YongEui and Yi JaeSeon; Camphor tree resources and utilization; Zeng Linghai, Lian Huiming, Zhang Qian, Cai Yanling and He Boxiang; Conservation status of threatened dipterocarps in Peninsular Malaysia; Suhaida M. and Chua L.S.L.; Legal settings to conserve valuable and endangered trees using village common forest and forest tree tenure in Bangladesh; M Al-Amin, I. Jahan and S. Afrin; Strategies for sustaining sandalwood resources in East Nusa Tenggara – Indonesia; Dede Rohadi, Titiek Setyawati, Retno Maryani, Mikael Riwukaho, Don Gilmour, Palulun Boroh, Yani Septiani and Elizabeth Lukas; Landscape management approach as a key to transboundary conservation of valuable forest tree species ; Dhananjaya Lamichhane; Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis Warb.): Valuable but diminishing tree species in the Philippines; Arsenio B. Ella and Emmanuel P. Domingo; Conservation and restoration strategy for wild forest Ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer); Choi YongEui, Kim ChulWoo and Yi JaeSeon; Phylogeography and refugia of the Peninsular Malaysian endemic timber species, Neobalanocarpus heimii (Dipterocarpaceae); Tnah Lee Hong, Lee S.L., Kevin Ng K.S., Subha Bhassu and Rofina Yasmin Othman; Chloroplast DNA variation of Dalbergia cochinchinensis Pierre in Thailand and Laos; Ratree Yooyuen, Sutee Duangjai and Suchitra Changtragoon; Introduction of Quercus rubra tree and its ex situ conservation in Guangdong of China; He Liping, Zeng Linghai, He Boxiang, Cai Yanling and Wang Yan; Introduction trials of Chukrasia sp and Manglietia glauca in southern China; Zhong Chonglu, Wu Chong, Chen Yu, Zhang Yong, Chen Zhen, Jiang Qingbin, Ma Ni, Khongsak Pinyopusarerk, Nguyen Hoang Nghia and Pham Quang Thu; Conservation of a threatened riparian tree Salix hukaoana; Satoshi Kikuchi and Wajiro Suzuki; Identifying tree populations for conservation action through geospatial analyses; Riina Jalonen, Maarten van Zonneveld, Evert Thomas, Hannes Gaisberger, Barbara Vinceti, Hong Lay Thong and Judy Loo; Resource status and conservation of four endangered and valuable trees in Hainan Island of China; Huang Guihua, Liang Kunnan, Zhou Zaizhi and Ma Huaming; Genetic diversity of Aquilaria crassna (Thymelaeaceae) in Thailand using microsatellite markers; Sudarat Buapech, Suchitra Changtragoon and Wichan Eiadthong; Gall rust disease epidemic on Falcataria moluccana in Indonesia and Malaysia; Sri Rahayu; Natural distribution, endangered mechanism and conservation strategy of an endangered tree species, Erythrophleum fordii Oliv.; Zhao Zhigang, Guo Junjie, Sha Er, Zeng Jie and Xu Jianmin
