Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value.
This study quantifies the impacts of different intensities of tree harvesting on indicators of stand structure and composition and on butterflies communities in a certified forest in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. The impacts on the three indicators were assessed by determining t...
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ftdatacite:10.7910/dvn/4mu52n 2023-05-15T17:32:50+02:00 Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. Yadid Ordoñez Sierra Finegan, Bryan Louman, Bastiaan Delgado, Diego 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.7910/dvn/4mu52n https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/4MU52N unknown Harvard Dataverse dataset Dataset 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/4mu52n 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z This study quantifies the impacts of different intensities of tree harvesting on indicators of stand structure and composition and on butterflies communities in a certified forest in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. The impacts on the three indicators were assessed by determining thresholds of acceptable/unacceptable levels of change based on existent methodologies. The use of thresholds is a useful tool to demonstrate the impact level of different management practices. Indicators were measured in three forests: forest with low harvesting (ABI), forest with high harvesting (AAI) and a forest without harvesting, used as a control (BR). Vegetation density, basal area and palm abundance was measured considering only individuals with DBH>10cm, in temporal 50m x 50m plots. Canopy openness and vertical structure was assessed in 10m x 10m temporal plots. Butterfly communities were evaluated in 500m transects, distributed in such a manner as to include all different environments within the forest. Dataset North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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This study quantifies the impacts of different intensities of tree harvesting on indicators of stand structure and composition and on butterflies communities in a certified forest in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. The impacts on the three indicators were assessed by determining thresholds of acceptable/unacceptable levels of change based on existent methodologies. The use of thresholds is a useful tool to demonstrate the impact level of different management practices. Indicators were measured in three forests: forest with low harvesting (ABI), forest with high harvesting (AAI) and a forest without harvesting, used as a control (BR). Vegetation density, basal area and palm abundance was measured considering only individuals with DBH>10cm, in temporal 50m x 50m plots. Canopy openness and vertical structure was assessed in 10m x 10m temporal plots. Butterfly communities were evaluated in 500m transects, distributed in such a manner as to include all different environments within the forest. |
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Yadid Ordoñez Sierra Finegan, Bryan Louman, Bastiaan Delgado, Diego Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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Yadid Ordoñez Sierra Finegan, Bryan Louman, Bastiaan Delgado, Diego |
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Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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Validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in Humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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validation of ecological indicators to evaluate sustainability of forest management in humid tropics, with emphasis on forests with high conservation value. |
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