Maintaining the density of a pioneer species within a closed forest environment is more difficult and entails a larger ecological impact than that of a primary forest species. The management of these species also carries with it a subtle motivation to fell trees and increase the areal extent of canopy gaps within the forest. Given the present objective, i.e. selecting species that can be exploited in primary forest with minimal ecological impact, the selection of pioneer species is usually not recommended.
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