The use of tree rings in tropical forest management: Projecting timber yields of four Bolivian tree species

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 226, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 256-267

  Brienen, Roel J W ^a,b   Zuidema, Pieter A ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Programa Manejo de Bosques de la Amazonia Boliviana PROMAB   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Cutting cycle; Future crop trees; Sustainable forest management; Timber volume; Tree age; Tree ring analysis; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GROWTH KINETICS; TIMBER;

CUTTING CYCLE; FUTURE CROP TREES; TIMBER VOLUME; TREE AGE; TREE RING ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

FORESTRY;

AGE; CANOPY; DAMAGE; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER;

FARM CROPS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; GROWTH RATE;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646474837     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.01.038     Document Type: Article

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