Salvage harvesting - Past lessons and future issues

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-53

  Lindenmayer, David ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecologically sustainable forestry; Environmental impacts; Forest planning; Long term forest sustainability; Natural disturbance; Salvage harvesting

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; MANAGERS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PUBLIC POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FOREST PLANNING; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; POLICY MAKERS; SALVAGE HARVESTING;

HARVESTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

E I S; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HARVESTING;

EID: 33644524976     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: 00157546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc82048-1     Document Type: Review

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