Description: Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Tropical Forest Management

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Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Tropical Forest Management

This paper disaggregates the term "biodiversity" into components (landscapes, ecosystems, communities, species/populations, and genes) and attributes (structure, composition, and function). It then disaggrgates "logging" by deta...

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Main Authors:	Putz, Francis E., Redford, Kent H., Robinson, John G., Fimbel, Robert, Blate, Geoffrey M.
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION TROPICAL FORESTS FOREST MANAGEMENT LOGGING LOG PROCESSING FACILITIES SILVICULTURE LANDSCAPE PROTECTION ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION GENETIC DIVERSITY SPECIES DIVERSITY NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LAND USE LAND USE EVALUATION TIMBER EXTRACTION CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CONSERVATION OF GENETIC RESOURCES AGRICULTURE BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY MAINTENANCE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BIRDS BOTANY BOXES CLIMATE CONSERVATION STRATEGY DEFORESTATION DEGRADED FORESTS ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEMS ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE EROSION FELLING FLOODS FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST BIODIVERSITY FOREST FIRES FOREST LOGGING FOREST OWNERS FOREST POLICY FOREST REGIONS FOREST STEWARDSHIP FORESTERS FORESTRY FORESTRY ACTIVITIES FRUITS GRASSES GRASSLANDS HABITAT TYPES HUMAN ACTIVITIES HUNTING LAND USES LAND-USE LOG EXTRACTION LOGGING METHODS LOGS MANAGED FORESTS MITIGATION NATURAL FORESTS NATURAL REGENERATION NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PARKS PASTURES PLANTATIONS PLANTING REGENERATION RESERVES SELECTIVE LOGGING SILVICULTURAL ACTIVITIES SOILS SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT TIMBER TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS TIMBER HARVESTING TIMBER PRODUCTION TIMBER SPECIES TREE SPECIES TREES TROPICAL FOREST BIODIVERSITY TROPICAL FOREST LOGGING TROPICAL FORESTRY TROPICAL TREES VEGETATION WILDLIFE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CONSERVATION OF GENETIC RESOURCES AGRICULTURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/09/828398/biodiversity-conservation-context-tropical-forest-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18296

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Summary:	This paper disaggregates the term "biodiversity" into components (landscapes, ecosystems, communities, species/populations, and genes) and attributes (structure, composition, and function). It then disaggrgates "logging" by detailing the vast range of activities subsumed under the term including variation of logging intensities, logging methods, collateral damage, and silvicultural approaches. Using the richness present in both terms, a framework for considering the impacts of logging and other forest management activities on the various components and attributes of biodiversity is presented. This framework is, in turn, used to evaluate the extensive literature covering different studies of logging in tropical forests. This paper does not conclude with uncritical support for sustainable forest managmement of timber as a conservation strategy. Such an endorsement is unwarranted given widespread illegal logging in the tropics, widespread frontier logging and logging of areas of high priority for biodiversity protection, the persistence of poor logging practices despite substantial efforts in research and training, and the generally slow rate at which most loggers are transforming themselves from timber exploiters into forest managers. Rather the authors assert, from a biodiversity maintenance perspective, that natural forest management is preferable to virtually all land-use practices other than complete protection.