Forest Health - Chapter 13
09 February 2015
09 February 2015
Managing the Family Forest in Mississippi is a video lecture series designed to be a primer on forest management for private landowners. Each of the 13 stand-alone videos address a topic from the Managing the Family Forest in Mississippi book, which can be downloaded at msucares.com. Viewers are encouraged to...
This document contains the links to a collection of articles related to alien and invasive species eradication. They represents the preceedings of the "International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives" of 2002. It is the Occasional Paper no. 27 of IUCN Species Survival Commission.
Forest pest control
19 May 2014
19 May 2014
This training manual is presented in a printed version and as an enhanced, interactive electronic version. This material is intended to provide the information necessary for you to meet the standards of the Environmental Protection Agency for pesticide certification in the Forest Pest Control category and to prepare you to...
Tree health course Seychelles FAO
19 May 2014
19 May 2014
This training course emphasised the need to know more about how to study and manage tree health problems. One of the main challenges of diagnosing problems on trees such as Pterocarpus indicus is making the distinction between the relative importance and influence of biotic and abiotic factors. This suggests a...
Protecting plantations from pests and diseases
29 April 2014
29 April 2014
This book is a thematic paper which analyses the effect of damaging pests and diseases on forest plantations, vs mixed species natural forests. The basic ecological concept of diversity leading toward stability in ecosystems would lead to the conclusion that mixed species, natural forests are less susceptible to pests and...
Country pest overviews
29 April 2014
29 April 2014
FAO carried out a review of forest insect pests and diseases in both naturally regenerating forests and planted forests in 25 countries representing Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Near East. The reports are available for downloading.
The data reported in the country pest...
Sandragon disease - Update of current knowledge: interim comments on control & management
29 April 2014
29 April 2014
It is now four years since the first Pterocarpus indicus died in Mahé. A technical cooperation project (TCP) of the FAO has recently begun and research efforts to understand the cause of the problem have intensified. A programme of field monitoring and assessment is underway and will continue at least...
The rapid spread of the leucaena psyllid, Heteropsylla cubana, across the Pacific Islands, Australia, southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent durin the mid-1980s is legendary in the annals of modern economic entomolgy. The purpose of this sub-regional workshop was to bring together research scientists, forest pest management specialists and foresters...
Insects and diseases are integral components of forest dynamics, in which they fulfil important roles. However, occasionally the populations grow rapidly to damaging proportions. Such sporadic outbreaks can have catastrophic impacts on forests and trees, in some cases leading to the complete destruction of large areas of natural and/or planted...
Experiences, case studies, and assessments
29 April 2014
29 April 2014
The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has recognized that there is an urgent need to address the impact of invasive alien species (IAS), and established IAS as a cross-cutting issue at its fourth meeting. The decision of COP 6 included adoption of Guiding...