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Achieving Conservation Goals in Managed Forests of the Southeastern Coastal Plain

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Managed forests are a primary land use within the Coastal Plain of the southern United States. These forests are generally managed under standards, guidelines, or regulations to conserve ecosystem functions and services. Economic value of commercial forests provides incentives for landowners to maintain forests rather than convert them to other uses that have substantially reduced environmental benefits. In this review, we describe the historical context of commercial forest management in the southern United States Coastal Plain, describe how working forests are managed today, and examine relationships between commercial forest management and maintenance of functional aquatic and wetland systems and conservation of biological diversity. Significant challenges for the region include increasing human population and urbanization and concomitant changes in forest area and structure, invasive species, and increased interest in forest biomass as an energy feedstock. Research needs include better information about management of rare species and communities and quantification of relationships between ecosystem attributes and forest management, including biomass production and harvest. Incentives and better information may help commercial forest managers in the Coastal Plain more efficiently contribute to landscape-scale conservation goals.

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Thanks to A. A. Lucier, D. A. Miller, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions. Development of this manuscript was supported entirely by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.

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    Craig Loehle

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    T. Bently Wigley & Philip Weatherford

  3. NCASI, Newberry, FL, USA

    Erik Schilling & Vickie Tatum

  4. NCASI, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    John Beebe

  5. NCASI, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

    Eric Vance

  6. NCASI, Lowell, MA, USA

    Paul Van Deusen

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Loehle, C., Wigley, T.B., Schilling, E. et al. Achieving Conservation Goals in Managed Forests of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Environmental Management 44, 1136–1148 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-009-9389-2

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