@Article{RochaAdamGalbFrei:2024:SiLoBr,
               author = "Rocha, N{\'{\i}}via Cristina Vieira and Adami, Marcos and 
                         Galbraith, David and Freitas, Lucas Jos{\'e} Mazzei de",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Federal do Par{\'a} (UFPA)} and {Instituto Nacional 
                         de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {University of Leeds} and 
                         {Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation}",
                title = "Signature of logging in the Brazilian Amazon still detected after 
                         17 years",
              journal = "Forest Ecology and Management",
                 year = "2024",
               volume = "561",
                pages = "e121850",
                month = "June",
             keywords = "Canopy opennessForest managementRemote sensingSelective logging.",
             abstract = "Selective logging in the Amazon Biome holds significant importance 
                         economically and environmentally. Due to its potential for forest 
                         degradation, monitoring these areas is of utmost importance. We 
                         assessed canopy openness in sustainably logged forest areas in 
                         Eastern Amazonia using hemispherical photos taken in areas that 
                         were logged in different years (2004, 2007, 2017, 2019, and 2021), 
                         along with one unlogged control area to evaluate the time period 
                         over which the effects of logging remained detectable. Timeframes 
                         of detectability varied across logging features considered (e.g. 
                         log landings, logging roads and skid trails). Canopy openness of 
                         log landings used to store logs was still greater than that of 
                         unlogged forests controls >17 years after logging had ceased while 
                         the impacts of logging roads and skid trails were still detectable 
                         at least 5 years after cessation of logging. The detection of the 
                         impacts of selective tree harvesting on the forest several years 
                         after the end of operations provides confidence for larger-scale 
                         quantification of historical low-intensity logging over Amazonia 
                         through high-resolution imagery. More generally, the study also 
                         highlighted the importance of monitoring selective tree extraction 
                         areas to understand their influence on forest disturbance and the 
                         occurrence of regeneration processes.",
                  doi = "10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121850",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121850",
                 issn = "0378-1127",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "1-s2.0-S0378112724001622-main.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "2024, May 17"
}