Mid-term effects of reduced-impact logging on the regeneration of seven tree commercial species in the Eastern Amazon

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 274, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-125

  Schwartz, Gustavo ^a,b   Peña Claros, Marielos ^a   Lopes, José C A ^b   Mohren, Godefridus M J ^a   Kanashiro, Milton ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forest ecology; Functional groups; Silviculture; Tapaj s

Indexed keywords

CROWN POSITIONS; EASTERN AMAZONS; FOREST ECOLOGY; FOREST STRUCTURE; HEIGHT GROWTH; NATIONAL FORESTS; PLANTS GROWING; REDUCED-IMPACT LOGGING; SILVICULTURAL TECHNIQUE; SILVICULTURE; TOLERANT SPECIES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GROWTH RATE;

REFORESTATION;

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; HEIGHT; LOGGING (TIMBER); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SILVICULTURE;

BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; TAPAJOS NATIONAL FOREST;

BAGASSA GUIANENSIS; CARAPA GUIANENSIS; DIPTERYX ODORATA; HYMENAEA; HYMENAEA COURBARIL; JACARANDA COPAIA; MANILKARA; MANILKARA HUBERI; SYMPHONIA GLOBULIFERA;

EID: 84858988428     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.028     Document Type: Article

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