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Soil disturbance and post-logging forest recovery on bulldozer paths in Sabah, Malaysia
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In this paper, the extent of soil disturbance associated with bulldozer yarding and the regrowth of woody vegetation on skid trails in selectively logged dipterocarp forest was examined.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2000-05-01. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Logging.read more
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Tropical forest recovery: legacies of human impact and natural disturbances
TL;DR: Despite evidence of rapid forest recovery following large-scale deforestation, many degraded areas of today’s tropics will require human assistance to recover forest structure, species composition, and species interactions typical of mature tropical forests.
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Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia
TL;DR: It is concluded that preventing agricultural conversion of logged forests is essential to conserving the biodiversity of this region and that conservation payments commensurate with combined returns from logging and subsequent agricultural production may be required to secure long-term forest protection.
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The impact of heavy traffic on forest soils: A review
TL;DR: A detailed review of the literature on machinery-induced negative effects on forest soils and their ramifications for forest ecology and management is provided in this paper, along with recommendations for best practices to limit such damage.
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Why Poor Logging Practices Persist in the Tropics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss seven possible reasons why destructive logging is still common in tropical forests, based on their collective experience with loggers in tropical forest management, and they suggest that the principal reason poor logging practices persist is apparently that the widely heralded cost savings associated with reduced-impact logging relative to unplanned logging by un-trained crews may not be realized under some conditions.
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Effects of fire and selective logging on the tree species composition of lowland dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
TL;DR: The studied Macaranga species formed an important part of both under- and over-storey in burnt forest 15 years after disturbance, while they were almost absent in the understorey and only moderately common in the overstorey of selectively logged forest.
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Compaction of forest soils. A review.
EL Greacen,R Sands +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model is proposed as a predictive tool to predict the extent of such reduction, if any, because of the complex of interactions involved, namely, the soil water regime and the organic matter content, and techniques for the prevention and amelioration of compaction of forest soils.
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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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Logging damage during planned and unplanned logging operations in the eastern Amazon
TL;DR: 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.