1. BD_Florencia_Natural Regeneration.xlsx

Logging and silvicultural treatments generate alternative natural regeneration futures in a Costa Rican secondary rain forest.

The sustainable management of tropical secondary forests for timber production is attracting increasing attention, because the global demand for timber is increasing faster than supply. We report the results of a study of the effects of logging and silvicultural treatment on the abundance and taxonomic composition of the regeneration of timber species in an old secondary forest in Costa Rica. The study was conducted four years after interventions in a formal long-term experiment carried out in the framework of Costa Rica´s unique national standard for the sustainable management of secondary forests.