Soil Information as a Reforestation Decision-Making Tool and Its Implication for Forest Management in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Navarrete, Ian A, Peque, D P, Macabuhay, M D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Carbon sequestration; Degraded soil; Exotic species; Reforestation; Site quality; Environmental Sciences; Forest Sciences; Soil Science
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/es-faculty-pubs/88; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-8881-0_5
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Over the last 2 decades, the Philippine government has devoted a considerable amount of resources to the rehabilitation and reforestation of degraded forest land. However, deforestation and forest degradation have continued to be a major environmental problem in the Philippines as vast forest cover...