Prospects for sustainable logging in tropical forests

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 479-487

  Zimmerman, Barbara L ^a   Kormos, Cyril F ^b  

^a International Conservation Fund of Canada   (Canada)

^b WILD Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

High value timber; Logging; Primary tropical forest; REDD+; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860776269     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.5.9     Document Type: Review

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