Over the past two decades, sets of timber harvesting guidelines designed to mitigate the
deleterious environmental impacts of tree felling, yarding, and hauling have become known as “…

Parks and protected areas are essential for biodiversity conservation but inadequate to assure
the continued existence of the majority of natural landscapes, ecosystems, communities, …

Despite abundant evidence that both the environmental damage and the financial costs of
logging can be reduced substantially by training workers, pre‐planning skid trails, practicing …

Most tropical forests outside protected areas have been or will be selectively logged so it is
essential to maximize the conservation values of partially harvested areas. Here we examine …

Liana (woody vine) abundance, height, diameter, and climbing mode were studied in the
mature tropical moist forest on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (BCI). Because lianas are …

Better stewardship of land is needed to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement goal of
holding warming to below 2 C; however, confusion persists about the specific set of land …

The influence of mechanical and architectural properties of trees on growth rates, mortality
rates, and relative probabilities of snapping and uprooting were examined on Barro Colorado …

In mature forest on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Republic of Panama, 0.09% of the ground
surface is covered by pits and mounds created by uprooted trees as compared to 14—60% of …

In evergreen tropical rain forest, growing on a nutrient-poor Oxisol (lateritic soil) near San
Carlos de Rio Negro, Venezuela, the average total above-ground dry weight of lianas was …

The first scientific treatise on vines in nearly a century and the most wide-ranging one ever
written. Putz (University of Florida) and Mooney (Stanford University) have edited 18 chapters …