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Approximately half of the tropical biome is in some stage of recovery from past human disturbance, most of which is in secondary forests growing on abandoned agricultural lands and pastures ...
and involve lands used for relatively short‐term before abandonment . Other studies use chronosequences to reconstruct the recovery of mature forests after short‐term agricultural use ( Saldarriaga 1994 ...
driven the destruction of the forests . This review describes each of these deforestation dynamics: natural resource degrading poverty traps that predominated during the colonial era, new land settlement ...
, along with images from Google Earth and a literature review , to estimate the contemporary global extent of deforestation, selective logging, and secondary regrowth in humid tropical forests . Roughly 1.4 ...
, environmental conditions, and belowground microbial community attributes across a land use change gradient (old growth primary forest , cattle pasture, and secondary forest regrowth ) in two Amazon Basin regions ...
- perturbation (8). For example, plots of land cleared of veg- tion, known as succession, are influenced by random processes. etation by fire or abandoned following agricultural use often Direct quantitation ...
of exploitation, pasture is abandoned due to land degradation. Meanwhile, the natural vegetation starts to regenerate, and soil pH and nutrient levels become similar to those found in the primary forest (Cenciani ...
and 2015 from 3961 M ha to 3721 M ha [10] in many developing countries, forest area is increasing, partly due to natural forest regrowth on abandoned agriculture , and partly due to plantations [11–13 ...
to other types of landscapes with lower structural complexity and biomass (Cochrane and Barber 2009; Malhi et al. 2009; Nobre and Borma 2009). Transforming forest ecosystems to agricultural land ...
of migration and remittances through land -use change have been associated with an increase of agriculture activities rather than land abandonment and forest transition in Ecuador [62]. 1.3 Methods This research ...
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