Mixed dipterocarp forests are perhaps the single most important rain forest type in the wet tropics.
The FBP system takes outputs of the FWI system along with other inputs specific to an individual fire's location and provides quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate, fuel consumption, and fire intensity, along with a basic fire description (e.g., surface, crown, and crown fraction burned) for 16 different important forest and rangeland types across Canada (Fig. 3).
Thus, variables related to wetlands and land-use history are likely most important for predicting those forest types.
Nonetheless, long-term information on natural patterns of development is rare for many commercially important and ecologically widespread forest types.
Remotely sensed images and processing techniques are a primary tool for mapping changes in tropical forest types important to biodiversity and environmental assessment.
However, studying the variations of the plant diversity with forest types is important for adopting appropriate management and conservation strategies.
Contrary to this idea, we found that landscape location have an important effect over forest type and understory composition, showing that mountain was more diverse (e.g., higher richness, strata quantity and vegetation cover) than coast, which could be due to a lowest content of litter in the coast as was described by Frangi et al. (2005) in evergreen forests floors considered less fertile.
This study compares the population structure of this economically important rainforest tree in two contrasting forest types: occasionally inundated and terra firme forests.
Although roads and forest age predominantly influenced grouse home range location within the landscape, mesic forest types were most important in determining core area use within the home range.
It is therefore interesting to focus on the observed gradient in the importance villages placed on different forest types: in Phadheng, the most remote village, villagers considered forests for timber and NTFPs to be much more important than conservation forests, whereas the value given to these two forest categories was more balanced in the other villages.
