Legacy of logging roads in the Congo Basin: How persistent are the scars in forest cover?

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kleinschroth, Fritz ^a,b,c   Gourlet Fleury, Sylvie ^a   Sist, Plinio ^a   Mortier, Fréderic ^a   Healey, John R ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Central africa; Deforestation; Geological substrate; GIS; Land cover change; Land sharing land sparing; LANDSAT; Regeneration; Road ecology; Selective logging; Survival analysis; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928663079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00488.1     Document Type: Article

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