Recovery of biomass and merchantable timber volumes twenty years after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 376, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-8

  Vidal, Edson ^a   West, Thales A P ^b   Putz, Francis E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial tree species; Cutting cycles; Drought; Forest growth; REDD+; Sustainable forest management; Tropical forestry

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; RECOVERY; TIMBER;

COMMERCIAL TREE SPECIES; CUTTING CYCLES; FOREST GROWTH; REDD; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DROUGHT STRESS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SET-ASIDE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; PARAGOMINAS;

EID: 84975484294     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.06.003     Document Type: Article

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