10/21/01
I.Agroforestry -find specific needs of different potential crop plants (i.e. bananas, mangos)
   -can't use those because harvesting the fruit takes the nutrients away from the system
   -instead use palms, brazil nuts, coffee type-thing
      II.       Monitoring -use surrogates (measure a set of easier to measure factors instead of directly measuring a hard to measure quantity i.e. environmental factors instead of counting number of a species)
       -look for indicator, critical species
       -examine litter fall (the composition should show nutrients in plants)
                             -isoprene levels in the carbon cycle (easily measured just by flying over rainforest, so can use to get general idea of cycle over different areas)
       -nitrogen doesn't limit growth, phosphorous does. Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ ions also important
       -different types of pollen
 
III.Preservation -ways of logging now are wasteful, instead use RIL controlled logging which only takes what you need
-reforestation after logging doesn't work if it is only one species, hard to get the dynamic of the ecosystem going again, especially without nutrients in the soil
-monitor rates of regrowth to find time scale for reforestation