Publications 

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Publications

Refereed

Wadt, L.H.O., K.A. Kainer, C.L. Staudhammer, and R.O.P. Serrano.  2008.  Sustainable forest use in Brazilian extractive reserves: natural regeneration of Brazil nut in exploited populations. Biological Conservation 141:332-346.

Kainer, K.A., L.H.O. Wadt, and C.L. Staudhammer. 2007.  Explaining variation in Brazil nut fruit production. Forest Ecology and Management 250:244-255.

Klimas, C.A., K.A. Kainer, and L.H.O. Wadt. 2007.  Population structure of Carapa guianensis in two forest types in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon.  Forest Ecology and Management 250:256-265.

Peralta, P.A. and K.A. Kainer. (in press).  Market integration and livelihood systems: A comparative case of three Ashaninka villages in the Peruvian Amazon. Journal of Sustainable Forestry.

Rockwell, C.A., K.A. Kainer, C.L. Staudhammer, C. Baraloto.  2007.  Evaluating future crop tree damage in a certified community forest in southwestern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management 242:108-118.

Rockwell, C., K.A. Kainer, N. Marcondes, and C. Baraloto.  2007.  Ecological limitations of reduced impact logging at the smallholder scale.  Forest Ecology and Management 238:365-374.

Humphries, S. and K.A. Kainer. 2006.  Local perceptions of forest certification for community-based enterprises.  Forest Ecology and Management 235:30-43.

Kainer, K.A., L.H.O. Wadt, D.A.P. Gomes-Silva, and M. Capanu. 2006. Liana loads and their association with Bertholletia excelsa fruit and nut production, diameter growth and crown attributes. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22:147-154.

Kainer, K.A., M. Schmink, J.R. Stepp, H. Covert, E.M. Bruna, J.L. Dain, S. Espinosa and S. Humphries. 2006. A graduate education framework for tropical conservation and development. Conservation Biology 20(1):3-13.

Wadt, L.H.O., K.A. Kainer, and D.A.P. Gomes-Silva. 2005. Population structure and nut yield of a Bertholletia excelsa stand in Southwestern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management 211:371-384.

Kainer, K.A., M. Schmink, A.C.P. Leite, and M.J. da Fadell Silva. 2003. Experiments in forest-based development in Western Amazonia. Society and Natural Resources 16(10):869-886.

Peres, C.A., C. Baider, P.A. Zuidema, L.H.O. Wadt, K.A. Kainer, D.A.P. Gomes-Silva, R.P. Salomão, L.L. Simões, E.R.N. Francisiosi, F.C. Valverde, R.Gribel, G.H. Shepard, Jr., M. Kanashiro, P. Coventry, D.W. Yu, A.R. Watkinson, and R. P. Freckleton. Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitation. Science 302:2112-2114.

Zarin, D.J., K.A. Kainer, F.E. Putz, M. Schmink, and S.K. Jacobson. 2003. Integrated graduate education and research in neotropical working forests. Journal of Forestry 101(6):31-37.

Kainer, K.A., M.M. de Malavasi, M.L. Duryea, and E.R da Silva.  1999.  Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) seed characteristics, preimbibition and germination. Seed Science and Technology 27:731-745.

Kainer, K.A., M.L. Duryea, N.C. de Macêdo, and K. Williams. 1998. Brazil nut seedling establishment and autecology in extractive reserves of Acre, Brazil. Ecological Applications 8:397-410.

Kainer, K.A. and M.L. Duryea. 1992. Tapping women's knowledge: Plant resource use in extractive reserves, Acre, Brazil. Economic Botany 46:408-425.

Kainer, K.A., M.L. Duryea, T.L. White, and J.D. Johnson. 1991. Slash pine bud dormancy as affected by lifting date and root wrenching in the nursery. Tree Physiology 9:479-489.

Kainer, K.A. and M.L. Duryea. 1990. Root wrenching and lifting date of slash pine: effects on morphology, survival, and growth. New Forests 4:207-221.

Book Chapters
Cymerys, M. L. Wadt, K. Kainer, and V. Argolo. 2005. Castanheira. In: Shanley, P. and G. Medina (eds.). Frutíferas e plantas úteis na vida Amazônica. Center for International Forestry Reserach, Bogor, Indonésia and Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil.

F. Brown, K.A. Kainer, Andrea S. Alechandre, and E. do Amaral. 2001. Extractive reserves and participatory research as factors in the biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin. Pages 122-138, In M.E. McClain, R.L. Victoria, and J. Richey (eds.). The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.

Other Publications
Bruna, E.M. and K.A. Kainer. 2005. Response Letter: A delicate balance in Amazonia. Science 307:1044-1045.

Wadt, L.H.O., K.A. Kainer, C.B. Cartaxo, G.M. Nunes, F.M.N. Leite, J.M.L. de Sousa Leite and D.A.P. Gomes-Silva, and M. de Moraes Messias Sousa. 2005. Manejo da castanheira (Bertholletia excelsa) para produção de castanha-do-Brasil. SEPROF (Secretaria de Extrativismo e Produção Familiar), Documento Técnico 3, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. 42p.

Kainer, K.A., M.L. Duryea and N.M. de Costa. 1996. Cultivando a castanheira no roçado, no campo e na mata: Resultados de uma pesquisa. Agroforestry Component Series No. 4, Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Sistemas Agroflorestais do Acre (PESACRE), Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.

Kainer, K.A., M.L. Duryea, C. Rancy and E. Braga. 1992. Conhecimento e uso de plantas pela mulher seringueira. Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Sistemas Agroflorestais do Acre (PESACRE), Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.

Reviews
Kainer, K.A. 2003. Review of “Participatory action research in natural resource management: A critique of the method based on five years’ experience in the Transamazônica region of Brazil” by C. Castellanet and C.F. Jordan. In: Agroforestry Systems 58:73-74.