ABSTRACT
Development of effective, long-term plans to conserve and manage biodiversity requires an understanding of the distribution, diversity, and abundance of species in both protected and unprotected areas. More than ever, due to extensive fragmentation and other anthropogenic effects, forest fragments in unprotected areas must serve a dual function: providing a sustainable source of timber and nontimber products and providing essential intact forest habitat for biodiversity conservation within the landscape matrix. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) [1], 194sustainable forest management is a land use with similar goals to those that focus on biodiversity conservation principles. However, factors such as the initial structure of the forest and the scale and intensity of the logging operations [2], not to mention the short- and long-term effects of postharvesting [3], are important when forest management and biodiversity conservation goals converge. Therefore, monitoring of natural forest areas subject to forest management (selective logging) is necessary in order to assess forest recovery processes after disturbance.
