Rainforest Restoration for Biodiversity and the Production of Timber

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 494-509

  Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^a,b,c   Kanowski, John ^a,c   Catterall, Carla P ^a,c   Price, Mandy ^b   Lamb, David ^b,c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity, biomass and productivity; Fragmentation, biodiversity loss and restoration; Old plantations of red cedar and hoop pine on Atherton Tablelands; Rainforest restoration for biodiversity and timber; Trade offs and synergies in biodiversity and timber; Trade offs and synergies in biodiversity and timber in practice

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RESTORATION; TIMBER;

BIODIVERSITY LOSS; HOOP PINE; RAINFOREST RESTORATIONS; TRADE OFF;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 77955085148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch40     Document Type: Chapter

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