Objectives The research
objectives of all CELOS forestry experiments, which date
back to the 60's, are to provide knowledge upon which long
term strategic Land use decisions can be made.
The experiments include specifically the following:
- The analysis of the
effects of management and other practices on the
rainforest ecosystems, the so called anthropogenic
interferences;
- The investigation of
ecological processes, particularly those relating to
timber production and to effects on neighboring systems;
- The development of
principles and criteria on which to base the planned
management of the tropical rainforest.
Considerations In setting
these objectives a number of considerations apply of which
some are and being executed in the CELOS Forestry
Experiments, i.e.:
- The paucity of
quantitative knowledge about ecological processes in the
tropical rainforest, particularly those relating to
potential productivity;
- The knowledge that
massive interference elsewhere in the tropics and also
locally in Suriname has led to an irreversible decline
in forest productivity;
- The fact that the
tropical rainforest resources of Suriname covering about
90% of the land surface, must be developed rationally
and conservatively as
a national asset.
In this respect the
objectives, methods and elaborations of all important
forestry experiments, the CELOS Forest Management System
(CMS) was developed and meanwhile applied in some tropical
forest area of the Amazone basin.
Celos Management System
- The CELOS Management
System consists of two integrated sub-systems:
the CELOS Harvesting System (CHS) which basically deals
with logging and
skidding methods with a reduced impact on the forest
ecosystem;
- The CELOS Silvicultural
System (CSS) consisting basically of the refinement
and elimination after harvesting, of trees, shrubs and
lianas without
commercial value. Some of the experiments are ended but
others are
ongoing.
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