The Caqueta region of Colombia is representative of the environmental and economic conditions prevailing in most of Colombia's Amazon region. The department of Caqueta, located in the Amazon River basin, occupies an area of 8.9 million hectares, most of it under jungle. The average annual rai...
Rivas Ríos, Libardo
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Holmann, Federico J.
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[Adopcion temprana de Arachis pintoi en el tropico humedo: el caso de los sistemas ganaderos de doble proposito en el Caqueta, Colombia. (Early adoption of Arachis pintoi in the humid tropics: the case of dual purpose livestock systems in Caqueta, Colombia)]
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Adopcion temprana de Arachis pintoi en el tropico humedo: el caso de los sistemas ganaderos de doble proposito en el Caqueta, Colombia. (Early adoption of Arachis pintoi in the humid tropics: the case of dual purpose livestock systems in Caqueta, Colombia)
This article focuses on the ecological and economic interactions of woodland use in Western Zimbabwe. One of the aims was to investigate the use of modelling to achieve integration among disciplines. The integrated model draws on the models in the different papers in this issue of the journal. Th...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Costanza, R.
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Belt, M. van den
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[Land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: Introduction, overview and synthesis]
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Land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: Introduction, overview and synthesis
The Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on earth, and has been undergoing rapid deforestation for the last four decades. In the Brazilian Amazon, large-scale pasture for cattle ranching and soybean production are the main land uses, leading to a yearly deforestation rate of 0.5%. These con...
Mertens, B.
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Poccard-Chapuis, R.
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Piketty, M.G.
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Lacques, A.E.
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Venturieri, A.
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[Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para]
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Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para
In this study forest fallows (locally known as ‘purmas’) are classified and described in three categories: natural fallow succession (PS), degrading fallow vegetation (PD) and fallow dominated by kudzu (Pueraria phaseoloides) (PK). The study area of Semuya has 83% under PS, and the area of Nueva ...
Alva Vasques, I.J.
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Ignasio Lombardi, I.
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[Impacto de los patrones de uso de la tierra sobre los bosques secundarios dela zona de Pucallpa, Peru]
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Impacto de los patrones de uso de la tierra sobre los bosques secundarios dela zona de Pucallpa, Peru
Brockhaus, M.
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Djoudi, H.
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Locatelli, Bruno
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[Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali]
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Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali