The authors would like to thank a number of individuals and organizations for bringing to completion this report:
T. Enters critically reviewed the document, and provided many suggestions to improve the presentation;
K. Meechantra provided much general assistance towards completion of the manuscript;
We owe our individual organizations much for giving us the time to undertake this task (International Union of Forest Research Organizations and the Forest Department, Government Madhya Pradesh, India);
The funds for this work were provided by the FAO Regional Office in Bangkok, the FAO/Netherlands Partnership Programme (GCP/INT/829/NET) and the Forestry Research Support Programme for Asia and the Pacific (FORSPA).