Colonial logging and recent subsistence harvesting affect the composition and physiognomy of a podocarp dominated Afrotemperate forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 247, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 48-60

  Lawes, Michael J ^a   Griffiths, Megan E ^a   Boudreau, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest dynamics; Logging; Podocarpus; Regeneration; South Africa

Indexed keywords

INTERVENTION; PHYSIOGNOMY; PODOCARP DOMINATED AFROTEMPERATE; SENESCING CANOPY;

ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); REGENERATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGGING;

AFRICA; IGXALINGENWA FOREST; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AFROCARPUS FALCATUS; CALODENDRUM CAPENSE; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PODOCARPUS; PTAEROXYLON OBLIQUUM;

EID: 34447274281     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.04.012     Document Type: Article

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