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dc.contributor.authorRobiglio, V.
dc.contributor.authorSinclair, Fergus L.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:10:34Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:10:34Z
dc.date.issued2011-08
dc.identifier.citationRobiglio, V. & Sinclair, F. (2011). Maintaining the conservation value of shifting cultivation landscapes requires spatially explicit interventions. Environmental Management, 48(2), 289-306.
dc.identifier.issn0364-152X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/2196
dc.description.abstractFallow vegetation within landscapes dominated by shifting cultivation represents a woody species pool of critical importance with considerable potential for biodiversity conservation. Here, through the analysis of factors that influence the early stages of fallow vegetation regrowth in two contrasting forest margin landscapes in Southern Cameroon, we assessed the impact of current trends of land use intensification and expansion of the cultivated areas, upon the conservation potential of shifting cultivation landscapes. We combined the analysis of plot and landscape scale factors and identified a complex set of variables that influence fallow regrowth processes in particular the characteristics of the agricultural matrix and the distance from forest. Overall we observed a decline in the fallow species pool, with composition becoming increasingly dominated by species adapted to recurrent disturbance. It is clear that without intervention and if present intensification trends continue, the potential of fallow vegetation to contribute to biodiversity conservation declines because of a reduced capacity, (1) to recover forest vegetation with anything like its original species composition, (2) to connect less disturbed forest patches for forest dependent organisms. Strategies to combat biodiversity loss, including promotion of agroforestry practices and the increase of old secondary forest cover, will need not only to operate at a landscape scale but also to be spatially explicit, reflecting the spatial pattern of species reservoirs and dispersal strategies and human usage across landscapes.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectFarming Systems
dc.subjectIntensification
dc.subjectDeforestation
dc.subjectFallow
dc.titleMaintaining the conservation value of shifting cultivation landscapes requires spatially Explicit Interventions
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centre
cg.contributor.affiliationBangor University
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionCentral Africa
cg.coverage.countryCameroon
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centre
cg.iitasubjectFarming Systems
cg.journalEnvironmental Management
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
local.dspaceid90927
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-010-9611-2


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