Relevance of secondary tropical forest for landscape restoration
| Autor: | Roger Villalobos, Marie Ange Ngo Bieng, Philippe Guizol, Manuel Boissière, Plinio Sist, Bruno Hérault, Jean-Marc Roda, Maïri Souza Oliveira |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
Sylviculture Production du bois Production forestière Aménagement forestier forêt tropicale Management Monitoring Policy and Law gestion forestière durable 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Natural (archaeology) Ecosystem services Goods and services Deforestation Forest ecology K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales Ecosystem Nature and Landscape Conservation Wood production Agroforestry Logging Forestry K10 - Production forestière services écosystémiques Geography Écosystème forestier P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières forêt secondaire Restauration du paysage forestier 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Forest Ecology and Management |
| Popis: | 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. |
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