Authors
Catarina C Jakovac, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Thomas W Kuyper, Frans Bongers
Publication date
2015/1
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
103
Issue
1
Pages
67-77
Description
- Understanding how land‐use intensification affects forest resilience is a key for elucidating the mechanisms underlying regeneration processes and for planning more sustainable land‐use systems. Here, we evaluate how the intensification of a swidden cultivation system affects secondary‐forest resilience in the Amazon.
- Along a gradient of land‐use intensity, we analysed the relative role of management intensity, soil properties and landscape configuration in determining the resilience of early secondary forests (SFs). We assessed resilience as the recovery level of forest structure and species diversity achieved by SFs 5 years after abandonment. We used as a reference the recovery level achieved by SFs subjected to the lowest intensity of use, given that these SFs are part of a dynamic system and may not develop to old‐growth forests. Therefore, we interpreted a deviation from this reference level as a …
Scholar articles
CC Jakovac, M Peña‐Claros, TW Kuyper, F Bongers - Journal of Ecology, 2015