..., the difference between lowland and montane forests and, on the other, the incompleteness of the sampling since all curves do not reach an asymptote ( figure 1 ). commercial logging forest degradation Papua New Guinea tropical forests National Forest Inventory Figure 1. Species rarefaction...

... that between 2000 and 2015, about 0.66% of the total forest area was deforested, and subsistence agriculture was the main driver (0.45%), followed by palm oil planting (0.23%). During the same period, about 6.6% of the total forest area was degraded, and commercial logging was the main cause (6.1%). Apart from...