Recovery process of fallow vegetation in the Traditional Karen Swidden Cultivation System in the Bago Mountain Range, Myanmar

Southeast Asian Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-333

  Fukushima, Maki ^a   Kanzaki, Mamoru ^a   Hla Maung, Thein ^b   Yazar, Minn ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Forestry   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Fallow vegetation; Karen people; Myanmar; Secondary forest; Soil carbon; Swidden cultivation (Shifting cultivation)

Indexed keywords

FALLOW; SECONDARY FOREST; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VEGETATION;

ASIA; BAGO; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

BAMBUSA; BAMBUSA POLYMORPHA; BAMBUSA TULDA; CHROMOLAENA; TECTONA GRANDIS; THYSANOLAENA MAXIMA; XYLIA XYLOCARPA;

EID: 45149128961     PISSN: 05638682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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