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Relevance of secondary tropical forest for landscape restoration

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Title Relevance of secondary tropical forest for landscape restoration
 
Creator Ngo Bieng, M.A.
Souza Oliveira, M.
Roda, J.M.
Boissière, M.
Hérault, B.
Guizol, P.
Villalobos, R.
Sist, P.
 
Subject secondary forests
tropical forests
deforestation
 
Description Tropical Secondary Forests (SFs) are vulnerable forest systems growing in areas that have been subject to unsustainable human activities leading to deforestation. SFs account for swathes of tropical forest landscapes that have lost their capacity to provide a high level of goods and services. They are also located in highly dynamic and human-pressured landscapes and are vulnerable to natural and human-induced catastrophic events, such as hurricanes or fires. Without appropriate silvicultural management to increase their economic value and restore their ecological functions, they often become degraded and are sometimes cleared for more short-term economically productive activities. Given the increasing demand for tropical timber in recent decades that will continue in the near future, we suggest that active restoration geared towards wood production is an opportunity for SF conservation. Promoting sustainable wood production -i.e. associated with other environmental services- in these disturbed forest ecosystems is also a way to reduce logging pressure on the remaining intact primary tropical forests, indeed, this may be the most important reason to enhance active restoration aimed at wood production in tropical SFs worldwide. Future research in forest ecology and management should produce experimental evidence of enhanced production of wood and ecosystem services in SFs through appropriate silvicultural experimentations.
 
Date 2021-08
2021-05-07T03:18:21Z
2021-05-07T03:18:21Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ngo Bieng, M.A., Souza Oliveira, M., Roda, J.-M., Boissière, M., Hérault, B., Guizol, P., Villalobos, R. and Sist, P. 2021. Relevance of secondary tropical forest for landscape restoration. Forest Ecology and Management, 493: 119265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119265.
0378-1127
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113654
https://www.cifor.org/library/8027
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119265
 
Language en
 
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Format 119206
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Forest Ecology and Management