Growth-Oriented Logging (GOL): A new concept towards sustainable forest management in Central Amazonian várzea floodplains

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 46-58

  Schöngart, Jochen ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cutting cycle; Growth model; Minimum logging diameter; Silviculture; Tree ring analysis; Tropical floodplain forest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; HARVESTING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIMBER;

CUTTING CYCLE; GROWTH MODEL; MINIMUM LOGGING DIAMETERS (MLD); TREE-RING ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FLOODPLAIN FOREST;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TREE RING; TROPICAL FOREST;

HARVESTING; LOGGING; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WOOD DENSITY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44749087252     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.03.037     Document Type: Article

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