Ecological limitations of reduced-impact logging at the smallholder scale

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 238, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 365-374

  Rockwell, Cara ^a   Kainer, Karen A ^a   Marcondes, Nivea ^b   Baraloto, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Centro Dos Trabalhadores da Amazonia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community forest management; Forest inventories; Liana cutting; Sustained yield; Timber management; Tropical forest conservation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HARVESTING;

COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST INVENTORIES; LIANA CUTTING; REDUCED IMPACT LOGGING (RIL); TIMBER MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL FOREST CONSERVATION;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LANDHOLDING; LOGGING (TIMBER); REGENERATION; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

CUTTING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LOGGING; LUEHEA; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845980266     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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