Over the past two decades, sets of timber harvesting guidelines designed to mitigate the
deleterious environmental impacts of tree felling, yarding, and hauling have become known …

Most tropical forests outside protected areas have been or will be selectively logged so it is
essential to maximize the conservation values of partially harvested areas. Here we …

Land-use history interacts with natural forces to influence the severity of disturbance events
and the rate and nature of recovery processes in tropical forests. Although we are far from an …

Amazon deforestation has been measured by remote sensing for three decades. In
comparison, selective logging has been mostly invisible to satellites. We developed a large …

Logged and structurally degraded tropical forests are fast becoming one of the most
prevalent land-use types throughout the tropics and are routinely assumed to be a net …

Every year, logging in the world's largest tropical forest, located within the Amazon biome,
continues unabated. Although it is a preferred alternative to deforestation, the residual stand …

Essential resources such as water, nutrients and light vary over space and time and plant
growth rates are expected to vary accordingly. We examined the effects of climate, soil and …

The long-term viability of a forest industry in the Amazon region of Brazil depends on the
maintenance of adequate timber volume and growth in healthy forests. Using extensive high …

The focus of land-use related efforts in developing countries to reduce carbon emissions has
been on slowing deforestation, yet international agreements are to reduce emissions from …

Use of reduced-impact logging (RIL) techniques has repeatedly been shown to reduce
damage caused by logging. Unfortunately, these techniques do not necessarily ameliorate …