Above-ground biomass dynamics after reduced-impact logging in the Eastern Amazon

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-373

  Mazzei, Lucas ^a   Sist, Plinio ^b   Ruschel, Ademir ^c   Putz, Francis E ^d   Marco, Phidias ^a   Pena, Wagner ^e   Ferreira, Josué Evandro Ribeiro ^f  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e EMATER PA ^*  (Brazil)

^f CIKEL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian rainforest management; Biomass dynamics; Improved forest management; REDD; Tropical silviculture

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST; AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS DYNAMICS; CUTTING CYCLES; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; FIRST YEAR; FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVATION PERIOD; RAIN FORESTS; REDUCED-IMPACT LOGGING; RESIDUAL BASAL AREA; TIME PERIODS; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES;

DEFORESTATION; EMPLOYMENT; GLOBAL WARMING;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SILVICULTURE; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; EMPLOYMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING; MORTALITY; RAIN; SILVICULTURE;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 73049102771     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.031     Document Type: Article

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