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Evaluations for sustainable forest management: towards an adaptive standard for the evaluation of the ecological sustainability of forest management in Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2002)
The evaluation of the sustainability of forest management is an integral measure in the maintenance of production, and the ecological and socioeconomic functions of forest systems and should consider both the fulfillment ...
Old-growth neotropical forests are shifting in species and trait composition
(2016)
Tropical forests have long been thought to be in stable state, but recent insights indicate that global change is leading to shifts in forest dynamics and species composition. These shifts may be driven by environmental ...
Agricultural intensification alters bat assemblage composition and abundance in a dynamic Neotropical landscape
(2016)
The recent trend of agricultural intensification in tropical landscapes poses a new threat to biodiversity conservation. Conversion of previously heterogeneous agricultural landscapes to intensive plantation agriculture ...
Diameter increment patterns among 106 tree species in a logged and silviculturally treated Costa Rican rain forest
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 1990)
Studies of growth rates of trees in managed neotropical forests have rarely employed complete botanical identification of all species, while published information for Central american lowland rain forests largely concerns ...
Drivers of tropical rainforest composition and alpha diversity patterns over a 2,520 m altitudinal gradient
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)
Ecosystem biodiversity in lowland tropical rain forests of Central America: characterisation and applications to land management
(CATIE, 1999)
El nivel de ecosistemas es importante en la medición de biodiversidad y en la planificación tanto para la conservación, como para el manejo forestal. No obstante, estudios sistemáticos de la biodiversidad de ecosistemas ...
Modelling Pentaclethra forest - an important Central American lowland rain forest type - for timber production
(CATIE, 1999-02)
Pentaclethra forest is a major component of the Central American Atlantic Moist Forest Ecoregion (CAAMFE). It covers most of the Costa Rican Atlantic Lowland region and parts of Panama and Nicaragua. Although soils are ...
Biomass of timber species in Central American secondary forests: Towards climate change mitigation through sustainable timber harvesting
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-06)
Sustainable management of secondary forests for timber production offers the opportunity to combine nature-based climate change mitigation with direct improvement of human livelihoods in the tropics, but this dual potential ...
Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2020-05)
Forests are among Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC’s) crown jewels. The region boasts roughly a third of the world’s forests, half of its tropical forests, and a quarter of its mangroves (Blackman et al. 2014). This ...