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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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WF Forestry

Paper in New Forests

Planted forests contribute to maximizing timber production but their role as valuable habitat for biodiversity is of increasing concern, particularly in tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF) landscapes, which present extremely high diversity and endemism.

© Tarin Toledo Aceves

In a recent paper, tree diversity, potential timber productivity and estimated net revenues were compared between monoculture and mixed species plantations in Mexico. The mixed forest only achieved positive revenues with subsidies and an interest rate <5% and 30% harvesting intensity. To ameliorate biobiodiversity loss, TMCF landscapes require alternative measures such as stimulation of the market for native species or compensatory mechanisms for mixed plantations.

  • Trujillo-Miranda AL, Toledo-Aceves T, López-Barrera F, Günter S (2021) Tree diversity and timber productivity in planted forests: Pinus patula versus mixed cloud forest species. New Forests 52:177-195, DOI:10.1007/s11056-020-09787-1
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