Intensive cattle browsing did not prevent fallow recuperation on smallholder grass-capoeira pastures in the NE-Amazon

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 813-828

  Hohnwald, Stefan ^a   Rischkowsky, Barbara ^a   King, John M ^a   Camarão, Ari P ^b   Rodrigues Filho, José A ^b   Zeppenfeld, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fallow systems; Low input farming; Organic agriculture; Secondary vegetation; Slash and burn system

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; BROWSING; CATTLE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; FALLOW; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; PASTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SMALLHOLDER; SOIL FERTILITY; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION COVER;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL];

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84941933631     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-015-9815-9     Document Type: Article

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