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Jeferson Alberto de Lima and Kelly Cristina Tonello
This study aimed to investigate how sustainable forest management can affect litter hydrological properties. We investigated the net precipitation, litter mass, water-holding capacity, effective water-holding and retention capacity, maximum water retenti...
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Tiago M. Condé, Niro Higuchi and Adriano J. N. Lima
Illegal selective logging and forest fires occur on a large scale in the northern Brazilian Amazon, contributing to an increase in tree mortality and a reduction in forest carbon stock. A total of 120 plots of 0.25 ha (30 ha) were installed in transition...
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Angélica Vásquez-Grandón, Pablo J. Donoso and Víctor Gerding
The concept of forest degradation tends to be addressed in broad terms, and existing definitions are difficult to apply in practice. These definitions are based on a reduction in the production of ecosystem goods and services, but fail to address how, wh...
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Janette Bulkan and John Palmer
There is a common assumption that when sustainable forest management (SFM) is not practised the reasons are usually a lack of knowledge or lack of training in applying those techniques. We trace the intermittent development of techniques for SFM in the t...
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William F. Laurance
I present a brief synopsis of six key lessons provided by research on forest ecology and conservation, focusing particularly on the Malaysian state of Sabah in northeastern Borneo. These lessons are generalizable to other contexts, especially for tropica...
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José R. Lozada,Ernesto Arends,Domingo Sánchez,Alberto Villarreal,José Guevara,Pilar Soriano,Manuel Costa
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Aim of study: We evaluate palm and tree species diversity in a floodplain forest and the changes affecting the plots subjected to different intensities of selective logging.Area of study: The western alluvial plains of Venezuela.Materials and Methods: A ...
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Luis Otero,Gastón Vergara
This research consist on a public opinion study to find out, how three target groups - domestic tourists, foreign tourists and local communities- perceive different silvicultural methods of native forests. The analyzed logging systems are: uniform protec...
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Yaoqin Xue,Wenhui Zhang,Chuang Ma,Liwei Ma,Jianyun Zhou
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Aim of study: Quercus variabilis (Chinese cork oak) reproduces asexually and sexually. This study aimed to determine the status and growth of asexual and sexual recruits of Q. variabilis in different forest recovery stages.Area of study: Three selective ...
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Philip J. Burton
A massive insect outbreak in the public forests of central British Columbia (Canada) poses a serious challenge for sustainable forest management planning. Tree mortality caused by natural disturbances has always been a part of wild and managed forests, b...
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Marcia C. Branciforti, Alessandra L. Marinelli, Marcio Kobayashi, Jose D. Ambrosio, Marcos R. Monteiro and Antonio D. Nobre
The Amazon Rain Forest has attracted worldwide attention due its large scale services to climate and also due to the green house gas emissions arising from deforestation. Contributing to the later and detrimental to the former, timber logging in the regi...
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