The sustainability of selection cutting in a late successional broadleaved community forest in Bhutan

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2084-2091

  Buffum, Bill ^a   Gratzer, Georg ^a   Tenzin, Yeshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Dzongkhag Forestry Sector ^*  (Bhutan)

Author keywords

Asia; Bhutan; Community forestry; Forest regeneration; Selection cutting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIMBER;

ASIA; BHUTAN; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FOREST REGENERATION; SELECTION CUTTING;

CUTTING;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; REGENERATION; SAPLING; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SILVICULTURE; SUCCESSION; SUSTAINABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; CUTTING; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; LOGGING; REFORESTATION; SURVEYS;

ASIA; BHUTAN; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

CASTANOPSIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 55749116327     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.031     Document Type: Article

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