Tree Species Diversity in Community Managed and National Park Forests in the Mid-Hills of Central Nepal

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 796-813

  Pandey, Shiva Shankar ^a,b   Maraseni, Tek Narayan ^b   Cockfield, Geoff ^a,b   Gerhard, Karin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community; Conservation; Forest management; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; TIMBER;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY FOREST; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; MULTIPLE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIMBER HARVESTING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

NEPAL;

EID: 84915814939     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10549811.2014.925811     Document Type: Article

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