Authors:
Williams, M., C.M. Ryan, R.M. Rees, E. Sambane, J. Fernando and J. Grace
Publication Date:
2008
Abstract/Summary:
Land management in tropical woodlands is being used to sequester carbon (C), alleviate poverty and protect biodiversity, among other benefits. Our objective was to determine how slash-and-burn agriculture affected vegetation and soil C stocks and biodiversity on an area of miombo woodland in Mozambique, and how C stocks and biodiversity responded once agriculture was abandoned.We sampled twenty-eight 0.125 ha plots that had previously been cleared for subsistence agriculture and had been left to re-grow for 2 to _25 years, and fourteen 0.25 ha plots of protected woodlands, recording stem diameter distributions and species, collecting wood for density determination, and soil from 0 to 0.3 m for determination of %C and bulk density.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Forest
Link:
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/mwilliam/williams08fem.pdf