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Sanitary Logging in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve: One Problem, One Legislation but Different Criteria and Different Treatments

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bark beetles are small insects that inhabit the bark of trees. When their population increases excessively, they can weaken the trees and cause their death. In México, federal regulations obligate forest landowners to carry out sanitary logging to control bark beetle outbreaks in adherence to official procedures.
Erika Gómez‐Pineda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wildfires' Cost for Societal Welfare: Economic Evaluation of Forestry Ecosystem Services Losses in Southern Italy

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forest ecosystem services (ESs) are garnering increasing public attention as awareness grows regarding society's fundamental dependence on them for well‐being. Forest fires, one of the major disturbances of ESs, are becoming more frequent and destructive, exacerbated in part by climate change.
Emanuele Spada   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economics of forest uses in Finnish Lapland.

open access: yesSilva Fennica, 1977
The object of the study was to give a tentative indication of the realized economic significance of the principal forest (forestry land) uses in Finnish Lapland. Data concerns the years of the 1970s.
Saastamoinen, Olli
doaj   +1 more source

Increased growth rates of stream salamanders following forest harvesting

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Timber harvesting can influence headwater streams by altering stream productivity, with cascading effects on the food web and predators within, including stream salamanders.
Jacquelyn C. Guzy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Feasibility of Timber Harvesting Under Conventional and Sustainable Forest Management in a Timber Concession in Terengganu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
One of the issues in forest management was the implementation of the Malaysian Criteria and Indicators (MC&I). This would increase the cost of forest harvesting (timber harvesting) and affect the concessionaire’s profit.
Mat, Salleh
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The effect of light availability and spatio‐temporal heterogeneity on the soil seed bank diversity in temperate forests

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Light is a key driver of understory plant diversity, also important for seed germination, yet its effect on forests soil seed bank diversity remains underexplored. This study assessed the impact of both light availability and spatio‐temporal heterogeneity on soil seed bank diversity.
Barbara Meyers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Yarsagumba Collection and Marketing: a Key Income Source of People in Api Nampa Conservation Area, Darchula, Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Yarsagumba the Himalayan gold rush is the major part of the economy of the himalayan people in the Darchula distict. Our study was conducted in Khandeshwori region of the the Darchula district to quantify the contribution of Yarsagumba on the total ...
Bhatta, J. (Jagdish)   +5 more
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Rights or containment? The politics of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Aboriginal cultural heritage protection, and the legislative regimes that underpin it, constitute important mechanisms for Aboriginal people to assert their rights and responsibilities.
Porter, E.
core   +1 more source

How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Game meat contributes to human nutrition, food security and sociocultural practices around the world. Game meat also comes with risks, including overharvesting and zoonotic and food‐borne disease. These may be pronounced where game meat travels along complex value chains from rural to urban areas.
Brock Bersaglio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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