Impact of Forest Management on Species Richness: Global Meta-Analysis and Economic Trade-Offs

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chaudhary, Abhishek ^a   Burivalova, Zuzana ^b   Koh, Lian Pin ^c   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LOGGING; META ANALYSIS; PLANTATION; PROFIT; ROTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FORESTRY; POPULATION DENSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84962385279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23954     Document Type: Article

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