Estimating the stock recovery rate using matrix models

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3597-3605

  Picard, Nicolas ^a   Yalibanda, Yves ^b   Namkosserena, Salomon ^b   Baya, Fidèle ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b MEFCPE ^*  (Central African Republic)

Author keywords

Congo Basin; Entandrophragma cylindricum; Population dynamics; Stock recovery rate; Sustainable management; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONGO BASIN; ENTANDROPHRAGMA CYLINDRICUM; STOCK RECOVERY RATE;

FORESTRY;

BOOTSTRAPPING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODELING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; CONGO BASIN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ENTANDROPHRAGMA CYLINDRICUM; MELIACEAE;

EID: 42649138920     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.02.041     Document Type: Article

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