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Logging damage during planned and unplanned logging operations in the eastern Amazon
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In this paper, the authors compared the damage in unplanned and planned logging operations associated with each of five logging phases: (1) tree felling, (2) machine maneuvering to attach felled boles to chokers, (3) skidding boles, (4) constructing log landings, and (5) constructing logging roads.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 1996-12-01. It has received 333 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Felling & Logging.read more
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Realising Redd+: National strategy and policy options
Arild Angelsen,Maria Brockhaus,Markku Kanninen,Erin O. Sills,William D. Sunderlin,S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a performance-based payment for environmental services (PES) based on secure tenure, solid carbon data, and transparent governance for forest owners and users.
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Reduced-impact logging : Challenges and opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, a standardized approach for calculating logging costs using RILSIM software is advocated to facilitate comparisons and to allow uncoupling RIL practices to evaluate their individual financial costs and benefits.
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Critical need for new definitions of “forest” and “forest degradation” in global climate change agreements
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that natural forest be differentiated from plantations and that for defining "forest" the lower height limit defining "trees" be set at more than 5 m tall with the minimum cover of trees be set as more than 40%.
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Fire in amazonian selectively logged rain forest and the potential for fire reduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of fire on a selectively logged forest, the microclimatic conditions that foster forest fires, and the measures that loggers might take to reduce fire incidence were investigated.
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Tropical forest management and conservation of biodiversity: an overview
TL;DR: This paper is a much abridged version of World Bank Environment Department Paper 75, “Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Tropical Forest Management,” by the same authors.
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Retaining Forest Biomass By Reducing Logging Damage
TL;DR: More and larger trees remained undamaged where reducedimpact logging was practiced, hence future biomass increment and yields of marketable timber are expected to be greater in the reduced-impact logging areas than in conventional logging areas.
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Vegetation Dynamics in Amazonian Treefall Gaps
TL;DR: Neither gap size, microhabitat within gaps, nor gap age have measurable effects on nutrient loss, nor do they appear to affect plant density, plant estab- lishment, or plant mortality.
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Logging impacts and prospects for sustainable forest management in an old Amazonian frontier: The case of Paragominas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the structure and economy of the wood industry along a 340 km stretch of the Belem-Brasilia Highway in eastern Amazonia and found that a typical sawmill with one band saw produces, on average, 4300 m3 of sawnwood year−1 from 9200m3 of roundwood.
Ecological Impacts of Selective Logging in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study from the Paragominas Region of the State of Para
TL;DR: In an assessment of a mechanized, selective logging operation in Para state, eastern Amazonia, 30-50 m3 of wood volume were removed per ha as discussed by the authors, or one to two percent of all tree stems 210 cm dbh.
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A disturbing synergism between cattle ranch burning practices and selective tree harvesting in the eastern Amazon.
TL;DR: It is observed that fires set to control weeds in degraded pastures in eastern Amazonia commonly spread into adjacent forests, and fire readily spreads through exploited (selectively logged) forests causing extensive damage, but fires reaching the edge of unexploited forests quickly die out.