Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: The attained and the attainable

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 296-303

  Putz, Francis E ^a,b   Zuidema, Pieter A ^b,c   Synnott, Timothy ^d   Peña Claros, Marielos ^c,e   Pinard, Michelle A ^f   Sheil, Douglas ^g   Vanclay, Jerome K ^h   Sist, Plinio ⁱ   Gourlet Fleury, Sylvie ⁱ   Griscom, Bronson ^j   Palmer, John ^k   Zagt, Roderick ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Utrecht University   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal ^*  (Mexico)

^e Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^h SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ CIRAD   (France)

^j THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^k Forest Management Trust   (United States)

^l Tropenbos International   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; FLEGT; Forest carbon; REDD; Sustainable forest management; Tropical forestry; Tropical silviculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864814238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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