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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 ...
Biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes of Mesoamerica : past, present and future
(2010)
Mesoamerica provides a unique context for biodiversity conservation in managed landscapes because of
its geography, history of human intervention, and present conservation and development initiatives. The
long and narrow ...
Co2 mitigation service of Costa Rican secondary forests as an economic alternative for joint implementation initiatives
This paper summarizes work in progress by the Silviculture and Natural Forests Management
Project (PROSIBONA) CATIE-COSUDE' on quantification and valuation of carbon sink service
in humid tropical forests. The study deals ...
Substrate conditions, foliar nutrients and the distributions of two canopy tree species in a Costa Rican secondary rain forest
(1997)
A 28 yr old secondary lowland rain forest in Costa Rica was dominated by two tree species of contrasting ecologies, Vochysia ferruginea - a species typical of well-drained but infertile soils of high AL saturation, and ...
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 ...
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 ...