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Influence of slash-and-burn farming practices on fallow succession and land degradation in the rainforest region of Madagascar
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In this article, a study was conducted in the Vohidrazana/Beforona area, located at the margins of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena rainforest corridor.About:
This article is published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.The article was published on 2007-03-01. It has received 250 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Summer fallow & Shifting cultivation.read more
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Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment
Nathalie van Vliet,Ole Mertz,Andreas Heinimann,Tobias Langanke,Unai Pascual,Unai Pascual,Birgit Schmook,Cristina Adams,Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt,Peter Messerli,Stephen J. Leisz,Jean-Christophe Castella,Lars N. Jorgensen,Torben Birch-Thomsen,Cornelia Hett,Thilde Bech-Bruun,Amy Ickowitz,Kim Chi Vu,Kono Yasuyuki,Jefferson Fox,Christine Padoch,Wolfram Dressler,Alan D. Ziegler +22 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10-15 years in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes with access to local, national and international markets that encourage cattle production and cash cropping, including bio-fuels.
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Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure
Steve Frolking,Michael W. Palace,Michael W. Palace,David B. Clark,Jeffrey Q. Chambers,Herman H. Shugart,George C. Hurtt +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a high-resolution remote sensing (e.g., 1 m passive optical/NIR, or small footprint lidar) is used to map crown geometry and gaps.
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Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept~!2009-09-02~!2009-11-09~!2010-03-05~!
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use tree-ring records and lake-sediment data to examine fire occurrence across multiple spatial and temporal scales and provide relevant information for the types of fire regimes likely to occur in the future with projected climate and land use change.
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Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use tree-ring records and lake-sediment data to examine fire occurrence across multiple spatial and temporal scales and provide relevant information for the types of fire regimes likely to occur in the future with projected climate and land use change.
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Global Patterns of Cropland Use Intensity
TL;DR: This study presents a global scale analysis of cropping intensity, crop duration and fallow land extent computed by using the global dataset on monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas MIRCA2000, indicating that intensification of agricultural land use is a strategy that may be able to significantly improve global food security.
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Deforestation history of the eastern rain forests of Madagascar from satellite images
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