Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

Rudel, Thomas K.; Coomes, Oliver T.; Moran, Emílio F.; Achard, Frédéric; Angelsen, Arild; Xu, Jianchu; Lambin, Éric F.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2004.11.001

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“…Land-use change is a global phenomenon in response to changes in political, social, economic, or environmental conditions (Rudel et al 2005) and the consequences of land-use change have been widely recognized (e.g., Rudel et al 2005;de Chazal and Rounsevell 2009;Lu et al 2009;Pan et al 2009). These include its potential effects on carbon sequestration, soil quality, longterm sustainability, and the water and environmental quality (e.g., Fahey and Jackson 1997;Rudel et al 2005;Richards et al 2007;Macdonald et al 2009).…”

Section: Land-use Changementioning

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Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Chen

2009

J Soils Sediments

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Section: Land-use Changementioning

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Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Chen

2009

J Soils Sediments

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“…Deforestation takes place when people clear land of trees and regrowth does not occur [7]. Brazilian agropecuary depends on physical, chemical, and biological soil proprieties, and wrong management will decrease soil fertility, resulting in the highly important need to quantify variations in soil proprieties in these dynamic and heterogeneous ecosystems [52].…”

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“…Reforestation of former agricultural and pasturelands also provides opportunities for carbon (C) sequestration and for the restoration of forest ecosystem goods and services [5,6]. Forestation (referring to a general process in which forest cover increases) also increases the permeability of the soil and emits water vapor into the atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration, further reducing the runoff of rainwater [7].…”

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“…Afforestation refers to forest cover expanding through the planting of trees on lands where the preceding vegetation was not forest and reforestation to forests spontaneously regenerating on previously forested lands [7]. Throughout this paper, the term reforestation refers to the expansion of forest cover in general, though with particular reference to natural forest succession [13].…”

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Mycorrhizal Interactions for Reforestation: Constraints to Dryland Agroforest in Brazil

Pagano

Cabello

2011

ISRN Ecology

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Reforestation provides restoration of forest ecosystem services including improved soil fertility, which leads to increased productivity and/or sustainability of the system. Trees also increase the average carbon stocks providing wood supply for local communities; however, C sequestration strategies highlight tree plantations without considering their full environmental consequences, such as losses in stream flow. The productivity of a site is a consequence of their physical, chemical, and biological properties, resulting in natural fertile soils or adequate managed soils for improved quality. Thus, it is required to know the variations in the properties of land-use systems for adoptability of agroforestry innovations. The choice of agroforestry tree species (highly mycorrhizal dependent plants should be selected) would have great implications for the manipulation of arbuscular mycorrhizas's species. In dry forest, the inevitable consequence of cutting has been the loss of vegetation cover and insufficient scientific information on the capacity to optimize forest recuperation affects agroforestry adoption. To study the biological properties of soils is now of interest; therefore, this paper reviews the literature that has hitherto been published on mycorrhizal interactions for reforestation and points out the use of mycorrhizal technology as one of the alternatives to improve forest products and environmental quality.

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“…An important issue in the forest transition debate is the degree to which environmental policy serves as a catalyst to accelerate the recovery of forests. It has been suggested that the transition that took Europe and North America a century or more to accomplish may occur in other regions in just decades, due largely to government policies protecting forests and encouraging reforestation (Rudel et al 2005;Mather 2007) through mechanisms such as financial incentives (e.g., payment for ecosystem services) (Daily and Matson 2008;Chen et al 2009a). …”

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Effects of Natural Disasters on Conservation Policies: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China

Viña

Chen

McConnell

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AMBIO

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Conservation policies are increasing in response to human-induced ecosystem degradation, but little is known about their interplay with natural disasters. Through an analysis of satellite imagery and field data we evaluated the impacts of a devastating earthquake on forest recovery and avoided forest loss estimated to have been obtained by two of the largest conservation programs in the world. Results show that more than 10% of the forests in Wenchuan County, Sichuan province, China were immediately affected by the 2008 earthquake, offsetting some gains in forest cover observed since the enactment of the conservation programs. But without the enactment of these conservation programs, the combined effects of human disturbance and earthquake-induced landslides could have severely reduced the region's forest cover. The continuation-and enhancement-of incentives for participation in conservation programs will be important for reducing the environmental impacts of the combined effects of human disturbance and natural hazards not only in the study area but also in many disaster-prone regions around the world.

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Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

Cited by 1,150 publications

References 24 publications

Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Mycorrhizal Interactions for Reforestation: Constraints to Dryland Agroforest in Brazil

Effects of Natural Disasters on Conservation Policies: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China

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