Ecological Succession on Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields A Review of the Literature /

• Main Authors: Delang, Claudio O. (Author), Li, Wing Man. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ecology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Plant Ecology.; Forests and forestry.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Forestry.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5821-6

The book reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests.� Patterns of ecological succession in tropical forests are insufficiently understood, partly because results are scattered through a large number of case studies reported in academic arti...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Forest structure
• 3. Species richness and diversity
• 4. Species composition
• 5. Factors contributing to differences in forest recovery rates
• 6. Conclusions.