The impact of Logging damage on Tropical Rainforest, their Recovery and Regeneration

2011

English

Data are presented in many ways in the literature, which can make the conclusions of different studies difficult to compare. It is hard to be certain of the relevance of two studies to each other when the species list is different, increasingly so when they are from different continents, and compounded by the use of different methods of evaluation and categorisation by researchers. Some topics, like the amount of damage to be expected when trees of various sizes are felled, travel better than others, such as phenology. Nevertheless, some consensus on the impacts of logging exists. Integrated reviews of many topics covered here, as they might be applied to forest management, can be found in a number of summary papers and books (e.g. Baur, 1968; Chazdon, 2003; Dawkins, 1958; De Graaf, 1986; Ghazoul & Shiel, 2010; Gomez-Pompa et al., 1991; Lamb, 2011; Meijaard et al., 2005; Mergen & Vincent, 1987; Putz & Viana, 1996; Ter Steege, 1996)

Hawthorne, W. D.; Marshall, C. A. M.; Juam, M. A.; Agyeman, V. K.