<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Weyerhaeuser, H.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">asb@cgiar.org</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">horst@loxinfo.co.th</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Potential of Semi-Natural Silviculture of Deciduous Forests in Thailand.</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Degradation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">forest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">logging</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thailand</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/02-5077.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eschborn, Germany</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In 1938 more than 70% of Thailand was covered by forest, in total 35 million hectares of vital forest. Of this, less than 20% remains. Large scale commercial and illegal logging can be held responsible on the one hand with the growth of urban
areas and industrial estates on the other . Today, natural forest can only be found in very remote areas or in areas under protection. Remaining forests are suffering varying levels of degradation. Due to a logging ban, imposed by the Royal Thai
Government, no commercial logging schemes exist, with the exception of Mangrove forests. The forests are more or less left alone without any silvicultural management .
The aim of this research was to assess the structure and composition and the growth
and yield of the forests under consideration. Subsequently, their silvicultural
potentials were estimated and future prospects and potential for semi-natural
silvicultural management investigated.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>