Synthesis: Land transitions in the tropics

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-62

  Uriarte, María ^a   Schneider, Laura ^b   Rudel, Thomas K ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c the State University of New   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled human natural systems; Forest transition; Land use sustainability; Land use cover change; Tropical landscapes

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HUMID TROPICS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 73649111711     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00583.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Asner, G. P., M. O. Jones, R. E. Martin, D. E. Knapp R. F. Hughes. 2008. Remote sensing of native and invasive species in Hawaiian forests. Remote Sens. Environ. 112 : 1912 1926.
2. Asner, G. P., D. E. Knapp, E. N. Broadbent, P. J. C. Oliveira, M. Keller J. N. Silva. 2005. Selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon. Science 310 : 480 482.
3. Carilla, J. R. Grau. 2009. One hundred and fifty years of tree establishments, land use and climate changes in neotropical degraded Montane grasslands, NW Argentina. Biotropica 42 : 49 58.
4. Carpenter, S. R. C. Folke. 2006. Ecology for transformation. Trends Ecol. Evol. 21 : 309 315.
5. Cash, D. W., W. Adger, F. Berkes, P. Garden, L. Lebel, P. Olsson, L. Pritchard O. Young. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecol. Soc. 11 : 8 19.
6. Chazdon, R. L., R. S. Capers, B. Finegan, B. Salgado-Negret, F. Casanoves, V. Boukili N. Norden. 2009. Composition and dynamics of functional groups of trees during tropical forest succession. Biotropica 42 : 31 40.
7. Chomitz, K. M. 2007. At loggerheads: Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in tropical forests. World Bank Policy Research Report.
8. Clark, J. S., S. Carpenter, M. Barber, S. Collins, A. Dobson, J. Foley, D. Lodge, M. Pascual, R. P. Pielke Jr., W. Pizer, C. M. Pringle, W. Reid, K. Rose, O. Sala, W. Schlesinger, D. Wall D. Wear. 2001. Ecological forecasts: An emerging imperative. Science 293 : 657 660.
9. DeFries, R. S., J. A. Foley G. P. Asner. 2004. Land-use choices: Balancing human needs and ecosystem function. Front. Ecol. Environ. 2 : 249 257.
10. DeJong, W. 2009. Forest Rehabilitations and forest transition. Biotropica 42 : 3 9.
11. Folke, C., S. Carpenter, B. Walker, M. Scheffer, T. Elmqvist, L. Gunderson C. S. Holling. 2004. Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 35 : 557 581.
12. Food and Agriculture Organization. 2005. Global forest resources assessment: Progress towards sustainable forest management. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
13. Global Land Project. 2005. Science plan and implementation strategy. IGBP report no. 53. Secretariat, Stockholm, Sweden.
14. Hurtt, G. C., S. Frolking, M. G. Fearon, B. Moore, E. Sheilakovas, S. Malyshev, S. W. Pacala R. A. Houghton. 2006. The underpinnings of land-use history: Three centuries of global gridded land-use transitions, wood-harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands. Glob. Change Biol. 12 : 1208 1229.
15. Kareiva, P. S., S. Watts, R. McDonald T. Boucher. 2007. Domesticated nature: Shaping landscapes and ecosystems for human welfare. Science 316 : 1866 1869.
16. Lambin, E. F. H. Geist. 2006. Land-use and land-cover change: Local processes and global impacts. The IGBP Series. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
17. Lambin, E. F., H. Geist R. R. Rindfuss. 2006. Introduction: Local processes and global impacts. In E. F. Lambin H. Geist (Eds.). Land-use and land-cover change: Local processes and global impacts, pp. 1-8. The IGBP Series. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
18. Lawrence, D., K. Tully, C. Radel, B. Schmook L. Schneider. 2009. Untangling a global decline in tropical forest resilience: Constraints on the sustainability of shifting cultivation. Biotropica 42 : 21 30.
19. LTER. 2009. Integrative science for society and environment: A strategic research initiative. LTER Network Office Publication #23.
20. Mather, A. 1990. Global Forest Resources. Bellhaven Press, London, UK.
21. Paine, R. T., M. J. Tagener E. A. Johnson. 1998. Compounded perturbations yield ecological surprises. Ecosystems 1 : 535 545.
22. Perz, S. G. 2007. Grand theory and context-specificity in the study of forest dynamics: Forest transition theory. Prof. Geogr. 59 : 105 114.
23. Pfaff, A. J. 1999. What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data. J. Environ. Econ. Manag. 37 : 26 43.
24. Putz, F. E. K. H. Redford. 2009. Tropical forest degradation and further transitions. Biotropica 42 : 10 20.
25. Rindfuss, R. R., S. J. Walsh, B. L. Turner, J. Fox V. Mishra. 2004. Developing a science of land change: Challenges and methodological issues. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101 : 13976 13981.
26. Rudel, T. K. 1998. Is there a forest transition? Deforestation reforestation and development. Rural Soc. 63 : 533 552.
27. Rudel, T. K., O. T. Coomes, E. Moran, F. Achard, A. Angelsen, J. Xu E. Lambin. 2005. Forest transitions: Towards a global understanding of land use change. Global Environ. Change 15 : 23 31.
28. Sánchez-Azofeifa, G. A., K. L. Castro-Esau, W. A. Kurz A. Joyce. 2009. Monitoring carbon stocks in the tropics and the remote sensing operational limitations: From local to regional projects. Ecol. Appl. 19 : 480 494.
29. Schneider, L. N. D. Fernando. 2009. An untidy cover: Invasion of Bracken Fern in the shifting cultivation systems of Southern Yucatán, Mexico. Biotropica 42 : 41 48.
30. Small, C. 2003. High resolution spectral mixture analysis of urban reflectance. Remote Sens. Environ. 88 : 170 186.
31. Turner, B. L. II, E. Lambin A. Reenberg. 2007. Land change science special feature: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104 : 20666 20671.
32. Turner, B. L., B. C. Turner, R. W. Clark, J. F. Kates, J. T. Richards W. B. Meyer (Eds.). 1990. The earth as transformed by human action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
33. vanWey, L. K., E. Ostrom V. Meretsky. 2005. Theories underlying the study of human-environment interactions. In E. F. Moran E. Ostrom (Eds.). Seeing the forest and the trees: Human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems, pp. 26 53. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.