TY  - JOUR
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Noss, Reed F.
A1  - Thorn, Simon
A1  - Bässler, Claus
A1  - Leverkus, Alexandro B.
A1  - Lindenmayer, David
T1  - Increasing disturbance demands new policies to conserve intact forest
JF  - Conservation Letters
N2  - Ongoing controversy over logging the ancient Białowieża Forest in Poland symbolizes a global problem for policies and management of the increasing proportion of the earth's intact forest that is subject to postdisturbance logging. We review the extent of, and motivations for, postdisturbance logging in protected and unprotected forests globally. An unprecedented level of logging in protected areas and other places where green-tree harvest would not normally occur is driven by economic interests and a desire for pest control. To avoid failure of global initiatives dedicated to reducing the loss of species, five key policy reforms are necessary: (1) salvage logging must be banned from protected areas; (2) forest planning should address altered disturbance regimes for all intact forests to ensure that significant areas remain undisturbed by logging; (3) new kinds of integrated analyses are needed to assess the potential economic benefits of salvage logging against its ecological, economic, and social costs; (4) global and regional maps of natural disturbance regimes should be created to guide better spatiotemporal planning of protected areas and undisturbed forests outside reserves; and (5) improved education and communication programs are needed to correct widely held misconceptions about natural disturbances.
KW  - anthropogenic disturbance
KW  - forestry
KW  - FSC
KW  - natural disturbance
KW  - protected area management
KW  - sanitary logging
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-224256
VL  - 12
ER  -