Conserving Wildlife in Tropical Forests Managed for TimberTo provide a more viable complement to protected areas

摘要: their biological diversity are diminishing. While commercial logging in the tropics rarely leads directly to deforestation-a stand of trees from species with limited market value usually remains uncut-it can have devastating impacts on forest ecosystems, even when volume timber extracted per hectare is small and pressures subsequently clear land for agriculture or pasture remain low. Most obvious extensive structural damage that commonly results both selective fell-