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Recruitment Of Lianas Into Logging Gaps And The Effects Of Pre-Harvest Climber Cutting In A Lowland Forest In Cameroon, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Marc P.E. Parren, Frans Bongers
Recruitment Of Lianas Into Logging Gaps And The Effects Of Pre-Harvest Climber Cutting In A Lowland Forest In Cameroon, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Marc P.E. Parren, Frans Bongers
Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications
The abundance of lianas (woody vines) and the detrimental impact that they have on tropical rain forest trees is widely recognized. Lianas are particularly abundant in disturbed areas of the forest, such as logging gaps, and pre-harvest liana cutting has been widely recommended throughout the tropics to reduce the impact of lianas during and following tree harvest. The effectiveness of forest-wide liana cutting, however, is currently unresolved, particularly for reducing liana abundance in logging gaps. Furthermore, our understanding of the dynamics and rate of liana colonization in gaps is limited. We tested: (1) the speed at which lianas recruit into …