Maintaining the conservation value of shifting cultivation landscapes requires spatially explicit interventions

Environmental Management

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 289-306

  Robiglio, Valentina ^a   Sinclair, Fergus ^b,c  

^a International Institute for Tropical Agriculture   (Cameroon)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Fallow; Intensification; Landscape ecology; Shifting cultivation; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

FALLOW; INTENSIFICATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SHIFTING CULTIVATIONS; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION;

CULTIVATION;

AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FALLOW; FOREST COVER; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FALLOW; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REVEGETATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CAMEROON;

EID: 79960931885     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9611-2     Document Type: Article

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