Includes references and list of contibutors.

Contents: Foliar litter decomposition: a conceptual model with focus on pine (Pinus) litter- a genus with global distribution. -- Vegetation response to climate change and human impacts in the Usambara Mountains. -- Modeling develops to estimate leaf area and leaf biomass of Lagerstroemia speciosa in West Vanugach reserve forest of Bangladesh. -- The influence of landscape and microhabitat on the diversity of large- and medium- sized mammals in Atlantic forest remnants in a matrix of agroecosystem and silviculture. -- An overview of Indian forestry sector with REDD+ approach. -- Mixed species allometric models for estimating above- ground Liana biomass in tropical primary and secondary forests, Ghana. -- Vulnerability of trees to climate events in temperate forests of West Germany. -- Individual growth model for Eucalyptus stands in Brazil using artificial neural network. -- estimate of genetic and phenotypic parameters for growth traits in a clonal seed orchard of Pinus kesiya in Malawi. -- Using the contingent grouping method to value forest attributes. -- Poverty alleviation through optimizing the marketing of Garcinia kola and Irvingia gabonensis in Ondo State, Nigeria. -- Sustaining cavity- using species; patterns of cavity use and implications to forest management. -- Using multispectral spaceborne imagery to assess mean tree height in a land plantation. -- Decomposition and nutrient release dynamics of Ficus benghalensis L. litter in traditional agroforestry systems of Karnataka, Southern India. -- Simple method of forest type inventory by joining low resolution remote sensing of vegetation indices with spatial information from the Corine land cover database. -- Spatial dispersal of Douglas- Fir beetle populations in Colorado and Wyoming.