Post-fire salvage logging increases restoration costs in a Mediterranean mountain ecosystem

New Forests

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 601-613

  Leverkus, Alexandro B ^a   Puerta Piñero, Carolina ^b   Guzmán Álvarez, José Ramón ^c   Navarro, Javier ^d   Castro, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest economics; Nurse objects; Post fire restoration; Salvage logging

Indexed keywords

COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES; ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS; FOREST ECONOMICS; FOREST MANAGERS; FOREST RESTORATION; FULL COSTS; IN-SITU; INITIAL COSTS; MANAGEMENT OPERATION; MANAGEMENT SCHEME; MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE ECOSYSTEMS; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; NURSE OBJECT; OVERALL COSTS; POST-FIRE; POST-FIRE RESTORATIONS; RESTORATION COSTS; SALVAGE LOGGING; SEEDLING MORTALITY; WOOD MANAGEMENT; WOODY DEBRIS;

CONSERVATION; COST ACCOUNTING; DEBRIS; FIRES; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SEED;

COST REDUCTION;

BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; WOODY DEBRIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84865406523     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-012-9327-7     Document Type: Article

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