Asia and the Pacific Forest Health Workshop: Forest Health in a Changing World: Extended abstracts
From the workshop held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1–3 December 2008
Read about the threats that increased trade and international travel pose to forest health by the introduction of alien species including pests and diseases. Increased trade and international travel have resulted in significantly increased risks to forest health by the introduction of alien species including pests and diseases, intentionally and non- intentionally. Similarly, growing trends in urban greening and landscape beautification often include imports of exotic plants. This has contributed to rapid increase in the international movement of plant materials including young seedlings. Many previously unreported or unknown pests and diseases, brought in by these movements of planting materials, have surfaced in these countries; further aggravating the threat that has already multiplied by increased trade including, especially, of wood and non-wood forest products. The Asian long-horned beetle, which attacks hardwood trees, for example, is indigenous to China and Korea; but was introduced on wooden packaging material to the United States most probably in the 1980s. This pest is a serious threat to the multi-million dollar hardwood industry in North America. Similarly, Eucalyptus rust, mahogany shoot borer and leaf blight in many of the Asian countries were probably introduced to Asia via exotic planting materials for forest plantations. Other species that have been introduced deliberately have later emerged as serious invasive pests. For example, fishes and frogs introduced for human consumption have out-populated local species, weeds for erosion control have invaded agricultural lands, and even species brought in for biological control have spread out of control. Asia Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) activities and initiatives during 2007–2008; K.V. Sankaran; FAO’s Response to Global Forest Health Issues; Gillian Allard; Overview of CABI activities and programmes related to invasive species and plant health ; Soetikno S. Sastroutomo, Lum KengYeang and Loke WaiHong; Invasive alien species – a threat to forest biodiversity: Actions under the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); Junko Shimura; An overview of forest health activities in IUFRO; Lee SuSee; Preventing and containing the global spread of invaders – an overview of TNC Invasive Species Programme; Duan Hui; International collaboration of forest health management in China; Chen Junqi; Plant health services of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community – an overview; Sada N. Lal; Village common forests of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh: A harbour of forest health and vitality in the degraded landscape ; Khaled Misbahuzzaman; Dwarf Mistletoe: An invasive parasite on blue pine trees in western Bhutan ; Dhan B. Dhital; Forest health practices in China; Fan Xibin and Li Xiuying; Fiji's forest health, invasive and quarantine – current strategies and future directions; Sanjana Lal; Forest health management in India: Present scenario and future challenges; C. Mohanan; Invasive history of exotic forest insect pests in Korea ; Choi KwangSik, Choi WonIl and Shin SangChul; Health problems of some exotic forest trees and agricultural crops in Myanmar; Wai Wai Than; Protecting forest health in New Zealand; PM Stevens; Building a network-based information system for forest health management: Taiwan experience; Lin ChauChin, Lu ShengShan and Jeng MeeiRu; An overview of current status of forest invasive species in Timor-Leste; Pascoal Barros do Carmo; New record of longhorned beetles damaging forest plantations in Vietnam; Pham Quan Thu; Removing noxious Eupatorium adenophorum for beehive briquette production improves forest health in community forest in Nepal; Maneesha Rajbhandari and Vivek Dhar Sharma; Environmental conditions and gall rust disease development on Falcataria moluccana in the South East Asia; Sri Rahayu and Lee SuSee; Understorey bird species as indicators of forest ecosystem health; Mohamed Zakaria Hussin; Cooperative surveillance and management of invasive alien species in the Philippines; Bonifacio F. Cayabyab, Wilma R. Cuaterno, Pablito G. Gonzales and Melvin D. Ebuenga; Fungi associated with teak mortality in Central India; RK Verma and K.K. Soni; Patterning population dynamics of pine needle gall midge, Thecodiplosis japonensis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), by using selforganizing map; Choi WonIl, Choi KwangSik, Chung YeongJin, Shin SangChul and Park YoungSeuk; Tropical American invasive weeds in Shiwalik Range of North-Western Himalayas of India: An assessment of status and impact; Daizy R. Batish, Ravinder Kumar Kohli and Kuldeep Singh Dogra; Managing Lantana camara and restoring native biological diversity in the Western Ghats, India; Ramesh Kannan, Gladwin Joseph and Uma Shaanker; Infestation status of the invasive Erythrina gall wasp Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) on the coral tree Erythrina variegata in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia; Arthur Y.C. Chung; Stabilization of climate change in the Himalayas; Cheppudira Poonacha Muthanna; Maintenance of teak forest health with reference to various biotic and abiotic components in Central India; P. B. Meshram and K. K. Soni; Thoughts on forest management under global climate change; Zhang Shengdong; Atmospheric disturbances due to heavy emission from the sponge iron factories at Raigarh, Chhatisgarh, India and its impact on vegetation and environment; Rupnarayan Sett; Peatland fire in Indonesia as threat to forest ecosystem and ist control effort; Ari Wibowo and R. Garsetiasih; Ecological impact of invasive weed Ageratum conyzoides on the structure and composition of the native communities in Northwestern Himalayas and insight into the mechanism of invasion; Harminder Pal Singh, Shalinder Kaur, Ravinder Kumar Kohli and Kuldeep Singh Dogra; Development of health assessment method in protection and plantation forests; Kasno, Noor Farikhah Haneda, Lailan Syaufina & Erianto Indra Putra; Economic considerations towards forest health: Intervention through microfinance and joint forest management; Bramh Prakash Pethiya; Forest health and forest disturbance: A case for serious consideration in the management of tropical Mt. Makiling; Portia Gamboa-Lapitan
