Community-based Watershed Monitoring and Management in Northern Thailand

Changing land use has led to increased tensions, as downstream populations blame practices in the mountains for Hoods, droughts, sedimentation, and a perceived decline in water quality. The net impacts of these various configurations on watershed services are subject to considerable speculation and much debate, the vast majority of which is based far more on theory, emotional impressions, and/or vested interests than on empirical evidence. Entries cover a range of indicator organisms, including aquatic invertebrates, fish, algae, plants, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and insects.