What loggers leave behind: Impacts on big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) commercial populations and potential for post-logging recovery in the Brazilian Amazon

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 269-281

  Grogan, James ^a,b   Jennings, Stephen B ^c   Landis, R Matthew ^d   Schulze, Mark ^b,e   Baima, Anadilza M V ^f   Lopes, J do Carmo A ^g   Norghauer, Julian M ^h   Oliveira, L Rogério ⁱ   Pantoja, Frank ^b   Pinto, Diane ^h   Silva, Jose Natalino M ^g   Vidal, Edson ^b,j   Zimmerman, Barbara L ^k  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia IMAZON   (Brazil)

^c Oxfam International ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f Associação Profissional dos Engenheiros Florestais do Estado do Pará APEF   (Brazil)

^g EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ AgroFlorestal Donadoni   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^k Brazil Program   (United States)

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Author keywords

Diameter increment; Forest inventory; Forest legislation; Logging impacts; Mahogany; Simulated population recovery; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DIAMETER INCREMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; SIMULATED POPULATION RECOVERY;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; HARVESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

INVENTORY CONTROL; KHAYA; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

MELIACEAE; SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 38949190267     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.048     Document Type: Article

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