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Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics
Albert O Aweto
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Description for Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics
Hardback.
Shifting cultivation or rotational bush fallowing is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation over the last six decades and also characterizes secondary succession and related changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration under bush fallow. It includes unique features such as graphical illustration of the organic matter equilibrium concept; correlation and multiple regression analysis; core-periphery analogy, encapsulated in the spatio-temporal ... Read more
Shifting cultivation or rotational bush fallowing is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation over the last six decades and also characterizes secondary succession and related changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration under bush fallow. It includes unique features such as graphical illustration of the organic matter equilibrium concept; correlation and multiple regression analysis; core-periphery analogy, encapsulated in the spatio-temporal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780640433
SKU
V9781780640433
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Ref
99-1
About Albert O Aweto
Albert Orodena Aweto obtained his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Ibadan, where he is a professor of soil geography and biogeography. His research has focused mainly on soil dynamics and vegetation regeneration in bush fallow, traditional agroforestry, and soil dynamics in monocultural plantations of teak, gmelina, eucalypts and rubber. He has published several papers in over two ... Read more
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