Despite abundant evidence that both the environment damage and the financial costs of logging can be reduced substantially by training workers, pre-planning skid trails, practicing directional felling, and carrying out a variety of other well-known forestry practices, destructive logging is still...
Costs of applying silvicultural treatments prescribed to increase yields of timber and non-timber forest products from natural forests should be calculated differently for industrial logging companies, private non-industrial forest owners, and community based forest management operations. For for...
Putz, F.E.
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[Some roles for north american ecologists in land-use planning in the tropics]
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Some roles for north american ecologists in land-use planning in the tropics
This paper considers the mechanism of certification to encourage sustainable harvesting and best management practices of Iriartea deltoidea Ruiz and Pavon, in the context of current land use and agricultural management in Amazonian Ecuador. To understand the demographic variables that are critica...
Anderson, P.J.
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Putz, F.E.
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[Harvesting and conservation: are both possible for the palm, Iriartea deltoidea?]
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Harvesting and conservation: are both possible for the palm, Iriartea deltoidea?
The article followed the establishment and growth response of 13 commercial tree species to canopy opening, above-ground biomass removal, and experimental burns of low and high intensities in a lowland dry forest in Bolivia. Three patterns of response to treatments were observed among the most ab...
Kennard, D.K.
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Putz, F.E.
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[Differential responses of Bolivian timber species to prescribed fire and other gap treatments]
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Differential responses of Bolivian timber species to prescribed fire and other gap treatments
Inclusion of improved forest management as a way to enhance carbon sinks in the Copenhagen Accord of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (December 2009) suggests that forest restoration will play a role in global climate change mitigation under the post-Kyoto agreement. Alth...
Sasaki, N.
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Asner, G.P.
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Knorr, W.
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Durst, P.B.
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Priyadi, H.
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Putz, F.E.
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[Approaches to classifying and restoring degraded tropical forests for the anticipated REDD+ climate change mitigation mechanism]
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Approaches to classifying and restoring degraded tropical forests for the anticipated REDD+ climate change mitigation mechanism
When the goal of natural forest management is to maintain the biodiversity and ecological integrity of the forest while harvesting timber, the silvicultural systems employed must promote timber production and reduce negative impacts on whole timber resources. To foster development of such a syste...
Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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Rumíz, D.
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Guzmán, R.
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Jardim, A.
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[Ecological characterization of tree species for guiding forest management decision in seasonally dry forests in Lomerío, Bolivia]
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Ecological characterization of tree species for guiding forest management decision in seasonally dry forests in Lomerío, Bolivia
Between 1992 and 1997, about 2400 ha of old growth dipterocarp forest in southeastern Sabah was logged to reduced-impact logging (RIL) guidelines as part of a pilot carbon offset project. Harvesting planning, vine cutting, directional felling and skidding restrictions contributed to a reduction i...
Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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Tay, J.
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[Lessons learned from the implementation of reduced-impact logging in hilly terrain in Sabah, Malaysia]
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Lessons learned from the implementation of reduced-impact logging in hilly terrain in Sabah, Malaysia
Putz, F.E.
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Blate, G.M.
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Redford, K.H.
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Fimbel, R.
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Robinson, J.
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[Tropical forest management and conservation of biodiversity: an overview]
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Tropical forest management and conservation of biodiversity: an overview