Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable?

Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable?

Around 30 Mm ^3 of sawlogs are extracted annually by selective logging of natural production forests in Amazonia, Earth’s most extensive tropical forest. Decisions concerning the management of these production forests will be of major importance for Amazonian forests’ fate. To date, no regional asse...

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Main Authors: Camille Piponiot, Edna Rödig, Francis E Putz, Ervan Rutishauser, Plinio Sist, Nataly Ascarrunz, Lilian Blanc, Géraldine Derroire, Laurent Descroix, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Euridice Honorio Coronado, Andreas Huth, Milton Kanashiro, Juan Carlos Licona, Lucas Mazzei, Marcus Vinicio Neves d’Oliveira, Marielos Peña-Claros, Ken Rodney, Alexander Shenkin, Cintia Rodrigues de Souza, Edson Vidal, Thales A P West, Verginia Wortel, Bruno Hérault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
selective logging
Amazonia
tropical forestry
ecosystem recovery
disturbance
macroecology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab195e

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