Future Benefits from Contemporary Evosystem Services: A Response to Rudman et al.

tance of dipterocarps in the global timber industry. Part of the value of timber from Southeast Asia is that most comes from dipterocarps; it is light and easily worked and can be sold in large volumes under just a few wood types. One of the great tragedies of the Asian timber industry is that dipterocarp forests are amenable to selective harvesting and long-term management, but economic and political conditions favor short-term intensive harvesting and conversion to plantations.