Sparing forests in Central Africa: Re-use old logging roads to avoid creating new ones

extent, construction and maintenance of roads is the most costly component of logging operations (Holmes et al., 2002; Medjibe and Putz, 2012) and also the element of logging

This contrasts with the situation in tropical forests, where road networks built for selective logging are considered a high risk for old growth forests by opening the door

Three successive phases of road recovery were identified on LANDSAT images: open roads with bare soil, roads in the process of revegetation after abandonment and disappeared roads

Logging roads are considered to be drivers of tropical forest degradation by fragment- ing the forest and opening it for human and biological invasions. However, most sec-

Hence, conflicts between cave use (especially tourism) and cave conservation are perceived, as caves with high species richness and abundances (often large caves) are also the

ancillary data such as population data, road network data, and climate data were used to assess the drivers of forest transformation and their implications. Correlation analysis

extend the results of forest recovery on roads by including successional trajectory. Measurements include: width of road, road edge, percentage of canopy cover over road and soil

The objectives are (i) to disentangle the mechanisms behind different types of responses in different forests; and (ii) to propose research priorities to improve