Authors:
Le Houerou, H.N
Publication Date:
2000
Abstract/Summary:
Mediterranean type vegetation and ecosystems have undergone intense processes of degradation for decades, centuries, or millennia under heavy and prolonged pressure from human and livestock populations. An extensive literature on exclosures, afforestation, reafforestation, rehabilitation, and other regeneration operations over several million hectares in Mediterranean bioclimatic areas from the Atlantic Ocean to the Aral Sea, combined with 50 years of personal field experience, allowed us to draw a number of conclusions on the consequences of these efforts, constraints, and limitations.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation
Link:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/089030600263139