Sustainability of reduced-impact logging in the Eastern Amazon

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 243, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 199-209

  Sist, Plinio ^a   Ferreira, Fabricio Nascimento ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UFRA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian rainforest management; Reduced impact logging; Tropical silviculture

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOILS;

AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST MANAGEMENT; REDUCED IMPACT LOGGING; TROPICAL SILVICULTURE;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY GAP; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; LOGGING (TIMBER); RAINFOREST; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; YIELD RESPONSE;

LOGGING; SOIL; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; PARAGOMINAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34248138579     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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