Long-term impacts of fuelwood extraction on a tropical montane cloud forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 868-881

  Rüger, Nadja ^a   Williams Linera, Guadalupe ^b   Kissling, W Daniel ^a,c   Huth, Andreas ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecosystem dynamics; Fire wood; Forest model; FORMIND; Logging impacts; Mexico; Selective logging; Sustainable forest management; Tropical montane cloud forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLOUD FOREST; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY MODELING; FUELWOOD; GROWTH MODELING; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONTANE FOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SELECTIVE LOGGING; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; VERACRUZ;

EID: 52949153573     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9166-8     Document Type: Article

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