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Assisted natural regeneration: a tool for degraded tropical forests [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A major part of anthropic impacts on natural tropical forests in central Africa is related to unmanaged shifting agriculture and fuelwood extraction by local communities, mainly along access tracks (roads, rivers,...)and at the edge of forests.
Dubiez, Emilien   +3 more
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Effects of Ungulate Herbivores on Temperate Forest Understory Vegetation—Implications From a Large‐Scale Wildlife Exclosure Experiment in Central Europe

open access: yesJournal of Vegetation Science, Volume 37, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
Fenced ungulate exclosure (foreground) with unfenced control plot (background). ABSTRACT Question Ungulates play a key role in influencing understory vegetation and ecosystem dynamics in temperate forests. However, how soil conditions modulate ungulate effects on understory communities remains insufficiently understood.
Alexander Seliger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Fertilization on the Performance of Adult Pinus pinea Trees

open access: yesBiology
Background: Pinus pinea L. (stone pine) produces pine nuts of high value. Its cultivation is carried out in forests and plantations, with intensive management techniques being studied to stimulate diameter growth, which is positively related to cone ...
Verónica Loewe-Muñoz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extended Benefit-Cost Analysis of Management Alternatives: Pagbilao Mangrove Forest [PDF]

open access: yes
Mangroves are important fish hatcheries. It prevents coastal erosion and provides timber resources. However, it limits land access to coastal and fishpond areas. This article presents a cost-benefit analysis on mangrove preservation.natural resources and
Janssen, Ron, Padilla, Jose E.
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Multiple-use forest management in Central Africa: Perceptions, implementation and evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Although multiple-use forest management (MUFM) is supported by forestry laws in the Congo Basin countries, this approach remains confused, misunderstood and little implemented.
Essoungou, Julienne Nadège   +1 more
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Changing Policy Narratives in Addressing Indonesia's Deforestation

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Indonesia's forests stand at the crossroads of economic prosperity and ecological preservation, where the demand for timber and palm oil clashes with the urgent need to protect biodiversity and mitigate climate change. The dual role of Indonesia's forests has led to decades of policy tension, primarily contesting their function as engines of ...
Hafidz Wibisono   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing management plans for periurban degraded forests around Kinskasa (DRC) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo are part of the second largest tropical forest in the world. Many of the rural population of this country are located nearby and live from them.
Dubiez, Emilien   +3 more
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FSC or Business as usual? Social impacts of forest certification in Cameroon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
FSC or Business as usual? Social impacts of forest certification in Cameroon The paradigm of Sustainable Forest Management is central in the forestry laws enacted over the latest decades in the Congo Basin countries. However its implementation, and hence
Cerutti, Paolo Omar   +2 more
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What kind of silviculture?

open access: yesForest@, 2006
This editorial stresses the need for a kind of silviculture that could address properly the profound changes in the wood market determined by the globalization of the economy and the most stringent environmental issues.
doaj  

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