Long-term effect of timber harvesting in the Bartica Triangle, Central Guyana

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 170, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 127-144

  Ter Steege, Hans ^a,b   Welch, Ivan ^c   Zagt, Roderick ^a  

^a Tropenbos Guyana Programme   (Guyana)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Kuru Kururu ^*  (Guyana)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Forest composition; Sustainability; Timber harvesting

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SEED; TIMBER;

TREE COMMUNITIES;

HARVESTING;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABILITY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

GUYANA;

CHLOROCARDIUM; CHLOROCARDIUM RODIEI;

EID: 0037109081     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00777-0     Document Type: Article

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