Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 103; no. 1; pp. 67 - 77
• Main Authors: Jakovac, Catarina C., Peña-Claros, Marielos, Kuyper, Thomas W., Bongers, Frans
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.01.2015; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: agriculture; alternative successional pathways; bornean rain-forest; Brazil; canopy; costa-rica; Cultivation; determinants of plant community diversity and structure; diversity; Ecosystem services; fallow period; fire; Forest management; Forests; Land use; landscape; landscapes; legacies; livelihood; Nonnative species; people; planning; resprout; secondary forests; secondary succession; shifting cultivation; slash-and-burn; soil; soil fertility; Soil properties; Special Feature – Standard Papers; species composition; Species diversity; Species richness; stand basal area; swidden agriculture; trees; Tropical environments; tropical forest; tropics; weed control; Brazil; Amazonas Brazil; South America, Amazon R

1. 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 res...