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Patterns of forest composition and their long term environmental drivers in the tropical dry forest transition zone of southern Africa KU Leuven
Background: Tropical dry forests cover less than 13 % of the world’s tropical forests and their area and biodiversity are declining. In southern Africa, the major threat is increasing population pressure, while drought caused by climate change is a potential threat in the drier transition zones to shrub land. Monitoring climate change impacts in these transition zones is difficult as there is inadequate information on forest composition to allow ...
Soil properties and neighbouring forest cover affect above-ground biomass and functional composition during tropical forest restoration Universiteit Gent
Coupled forest zoning and agricultural intervention yields conflicting outcomes for tropical forest conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent
Agricultural intensification and forest conservation are often seen as incompatible. Agricultural interventions can help boost food security for poor rural communities but in certain cases can exacerbate deforestation, known as the rebound effect. We tested whether coupling agricultural interventions with participatory forest zoning could improve food security and promote forest conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Simple ...
The Enhancement of Secondary Succession by Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in a Moist Tropical Forest of Southeast Cameroon Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
Long-term recovery of the functional community assembly and carbon pools in an African tropical forest succession Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise Universiteit Gent
Abstract On the African continent, the population is expected to expand fourfold in the next century, which will increasingly impact the global carbon cycle and biodiversity conservation. Therefore, it is of vital importance to understand how carbon stocks and community assembly recover after slash-and-burn events in tropical second growth forests. We inventoried a chronosequence of 15 1-ha plots in lowland tropical forest of the central Congo ...