Temporal Decay in Timber Species Composition and Value in Amazonian Logging Concessions

Throughout human history, slow-renewal biological resource populations have been predictably overexploited, often to the point of economic extinction. We assess whether and how this has occurred with timber resources in the Brazilian Amazon. The asynchronous advance of industrial-scale logging front...

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Main Authors: Richardson, Vanessa A., Peres, Carlos A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943729/