Impacts of logging on the canopy and the consequences for forest management in French Guiana

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 277, Issue , 2012, Pages 124-131

  Guitet, Stéphane ^a   Pithon, Sophie ^a   Brunaux, Olivier ^a   Jubelin, Guillaume ^b   Gond, Valéry ^c,d  

^a Direction Régionale de Guyane   (French Guiana)

^b Nevantropic   (French Guiana)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Canopy gaps; Forest degradation; Logging intensity; Rainforest; Remote sensing; Sustainable management

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAPS; CANOPY OPENING; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CUMULATIVE IMPACTS; CUTTING CYCLES; FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST LANDSCAPE; FOREST STAND; FRENCH GUIANA; GENERAL LINEAR MODELS; LOCAL SCALE; MANAGEMENT UNIT; MEDIUM-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY THRESHOLD; RAINFOREST; SUB-SAMPLES; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; GAP DYNAMICS; GPS; LOGGING (TIMBER); RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SILVICULTURE; SPOT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

DEGRADATION; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTS; FRENCH GUIANA; LOGGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 84861167331     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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