Assessing sustainability indicators for tropical forests: Spatio-temporal heterogeneity, logging intensity, and dung beetle communities

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 253, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 56-67

  Aguilar Amuchastegui, N ^a   Henebry, G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa rica; Criteria and indicators; Dung beetles; Structural heterogeneity; Sustainable management; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

LOGGING INTENSITY; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORRELATION; FIELDWORK; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PRIORITIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INSECTS; TROPICAL PLANTS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 36049010403     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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