Tropical Conservation Science
September 2011 | Vol. 4 | Issue 3 | pages 244-372

Editorial

Opinion matters in tropical conservation science | pages i-ii
Estrada, A. and Butler, R.

Opinion articles

Reel conservation: can big screen animations save tropical biodiversity? | pages 244-253
Ding Li Yong, Shun Deng Fam and Shawn Lum

A Model Biodiversity Monitoring Protocol for REDD Projects | pages 254-260
Jeff Waldon, Bruce W. Miller and Carolyn M. Miller

Pleiotropy and Charisma influence winners and losers in the REDD+ game: all biodiversity is not equal | pages 261-266
M.B. Collins, E.J. Milner-Gulland, E.A. Macdonald and D.W. Macdonald

Challenges and opportunities for biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest in face of bioethanol expansion | pages 267-275
Enrico Bernard, Felipe P. L. Melo and Severino R. R. Pinto

Conservation letter

Caatinga: the scientific negligence experienced by a dry tropical forest | pages 276-286
Jean Carlos Santos, Inara Roberta Leal, Jarcilene Silva Almeida-Cortez, G. Wilson Fernandes and Marcelo Tabarelli |

Research Articles

Fire control as a simple means of promoting tropical forest restoration | pages 287-299
Patrick A. Omeja, Jeremiah S. Lwanga, Joseph Obua, and Colin A. Chapman

Seed rain and advance regeneration in secondary succession in the Brazilian Amazon | pages 300-316
Lindsay M. Wieland, Rita C. G. Mesquita, Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec, Tony V. Bentos, and G. Bruce Williamson

Bird communities of the lower Waria Valley, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: a comparison between habitat types | pages 317-348
Dawson, Craig Turner, Oscar Pileng, Andrew Farmer, Cara McGary, Chris Walsh, Alexia Tamblyn and Cossey Yosi

Carbon storage in a fragmented landscape of Atlantic forest: the role played by edge-affected habitats and emergent trees | pages 349-358
Mateus Dantas de Paula, Cecília Patrícia Alves Costa, Marcelo Tabarelli

The aftermath of environmental disturbance on Coffea kihansiensis population in Southern Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania | pages 359-372
Alfan A. Rija, Kuruthumu A. Mwamende and Shombe N. Hassan