Simulating logging scenarios in secondary forest embedded in a fragmented neotropical landscape

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 170, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 89-105

  Kammesheidt, Ludwig ^a   Köhler, Peter ^b   Huth, Andreas ^c  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest growth model; FORMIX3 Q; Landscape management; Paraguay; Subtropical moist forest; Succession; Timber yield

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

FRAGMENTATION;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); SECONDARY FOREST;

PARAGUAY;

EID: 0037109172     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00783-6     Document Type: Article

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