Diameter increment patterns among 106 tree species in a logged and silviculturally treated Costa Rican rain forest
Studies of growth rates of trees in managed neotropical forests have rarely employed complete botanical identification of all species, while published information for Central american lowland rain forests largely concerns forest free of recent disturbance. We studied diameter increments of trees in a managed Costa Rican rain forest. The Pentaclethra macroloba-dominated forest was located on low hills with Ultisols in Holdridge's Tropical Wet Forest life zone. The 540 x 540 m (29.2 ha) experimental area was lightly logged during 1989-1990. The 180 m x 180 m (3.24 ha) experimental plots comprised a 100 m x 100 m (1.0 ha) central permanent sample plot (PSP) with a 40-m wide buffer strip. Post-harvest silvicultural treatments werte liberation/refinement (in 1991) and shelterwood (in 1992), applied under a complete randomized block design with three replicates, using logged but untreated plots as controls. All live trees ó10 cm DBH in the PSPs, were identified to species
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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Costa Rica Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
1999
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| Subjects: | ARBOLES FORESTALES, ORDENACION FORESTAL, INCREMENTO DE DIAMETRO, BOSQUE HUMEDO, CRECIMIENTO, COSTA RICA, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/1221 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112798005519 |
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