I wonder how abandoned agriculture terraces could affect the regrowing tropical secondary forest? There are few studies which talk about the difference of natural regenerating forest on abandoned pastures and agriculture. How the terraces could change the natural flow in a regrowing landscape, in particular, would it be a good idea to establish plantation trial on abandoned terraces? or we should first remove the impact of man-made changes on the topography of the landscape.
There will be edge effects or changes in population or community structures that occur at the boundary :)
Dear Sawaid,
In our southern Mediterranean region this is a very important issue, on which we have worked and we have the project to continue doing so.
The second half of the nineteenth century involved the transformation of vast areas by subsistence agriculture. Once abandoned, they are currently being covered by forest vegetation, with different speeds depending on the variables of the environment, in each case.
Dear Rafael,
Thanks for you insight - Past land use and intensity of use coerce different successional pathways of the recovering forest.
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