Record ID No. |
1439 |
Author(s) |
Reinmar Seidler, Kamaljit S. Bawa , 2013 |
Affiliation |
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India |
Title |
Biodiversity in Logged and Managed Forests |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition), 446–458p. |
Categories |
Mycorrhiza General |
Subjects |
Soil plant relations |
Sub-subjects |
Plantations |
Host |
Plants(Timber) |
Country |
India, Asia |
Abstracts |
Over millennia, human societies have managed forests for the production of a range of goods and services. As long as population densities remained low, the impact of humans on forest ecosystems was minimal, except near population centers of ancient civilizations. With the start of the industrial revolution, the demand for forest products increased considerably. At the same time, rapidly expanding human populations started to exert tremendous pressure on forests. Timber extraction on an industrial scale became the principal goal of forest resource managers in the latter half of the nineteenth century and remained so through much of the twentieth century. With mounting losses of forest cover and increasing interest in the conservation of biodiversity, attention has now again shifted to managing forests for a wider array of goods and services. |