Treetops at Risk

FORWARD.- PART I EMERGING ISSUES.- 1. The Role of Scientific Conferences to Foster Conservation Solution for Global Forests.- 2. Greening the Planet?.- 3. Comparative Canopy Biology and the Structure of Ecosystems.- 4. Forest Canopies as Earth's Support Systems: Priorities for Research and Conservation.- 5. Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests.- 6. Rethinking the Role of Tropical Forest Science in Forest Conservation and Management.- 7. REDD: How can scientists change the political jungle?.- 8. Narrowing global species estimates.- PART II CLIMATE CHANGE.- 9. Tropical cyclones and forest dynamics under a changing climate: what are the long-term implications for tropical forest canopies in the cyclone belt.- 10. Canopies and Climate Change.- 11. Church Forest Status and Carbon Sequestration in Northern Ethiopa.- 12. A novel approach to simulate climate change impacts on vascular epiphytes: case study in Taiwan.- 13. Sensitivity and threat in high-elevation rainforests: outcomes and consequences of the IBISCA- Queensland Project.- 14. A mature foreset canopy in a CO2-rich future - an experiment at the Swiss Canopy Crane research site.- 15. Shock value: are lianas natural lightning rods?.- 16. Potential impacts of global changes on epiphytic bryophytes in subtropical montane moist evergreen broad-leaved forests, SW China.- 17. 'Canopy-less' monitoring of biodiversity and climate change: signs of a leaky roof.- PART III NEW APPROACHES.- 18. Mesoscale Exploration and Conservation of Tropical Canopies in a Changing Climate.- 19. Why do sloths poop on the ground?.- 20. Birds of the "canopy": historical perspective, current trends and future directions.- 21. Functional roles of lianas in the forest canopy.- 22. Islands in a sea of foliage: mistletoes as discrete components of forest canopies.- 23. Non-vascular epiphytes: functions and risks at the tree canopy.- 24. Canopy texture analysis for large-scale assessments of tropical forest stand structureand biomass.- 25. Changing tropical forest dynamics and their effects on canopy geometry and tropical forest biodiversity.- 26. Reproductive Biology and Genetics of Some Dominant Canopy and Understorey Dominant Tree Species of Sri Lanka: Implications for Conservation Management in a Fragmented Landscape.- 27. The importance of flowers for beetle biodiversity and abundance.- 28. Assessing canopy processes at large landscape scales in the Western Ghats using remote sensing.- 29. Ontogeny of Herbivory on Leaves in a Tropical Rainforest in Madagascar.- 30. Do Water Bears Climb Trees too?.- 31. From leaf litter to canopy: non-invasive and reliable sampling in a tropical rainforest.- PART IV EDUCATION AND OUTREACH.- 32. Win-Win for Scientists Who Lead Citizen Science Canopy Research Expeditions.- 33. In the Canopy with Wheel Chairs: a model for teaching field biology.- 34. Modelling Insect outbreaks in Forest Canopies -- Integration of Virtual Simulations with Hands-on Ecology for Undergraduates.- 35. Canopy Capture.- 36. Kids can save Forests.- Forest Canopy Tourism- analyzing a Flagship Attraction in the Ecotourism Arena from a Political Ecology Perspective.- PART V ECOSYSTEM, SERVICES AND SUSTAINABILITY.- 38. Ancient Coastal Rainforest Canopies in Western Canada: Issues in Biodiversity and Conservation.- 39. The population dynamics of epiphytic orchids: A review and methodological guide.- 40. Can canopy dwelling frogs be monitored from the ground? A case from Western Ghats of India.- 41. Just harvest: Ecology and politics of forest canopy product use in protected areas.- 42. Orchid farming, sustainable timber harvest and other forest management practices in Cameroon, Africa.- 43. Sacred groves as sanctuaries for mistletoe conservation in Kathmandu Valley.- 44. Nutrient recycling starts in the canopy: the secretive action of termites.- 45. Valuing Ecosystem Services Flowing from the Himalayan States for Incorporation into National Accounting.- 46. Whole Plants asNTFPs from the forest canopies- priorities for management and conservation.