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Decrease and Degradation of Forests

2020
Deforestation is one of the most accurately measurable cases of acceleration toward global environmental collapse. It is a major cause of climate change and is tearing the web of life apart. Forests are now being destroyed worldwide at a breakneck pace.
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Instant Insights: Restoring degraded forests

2022
This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on restoring degraded forests. The first chapter reviews the restoration of tropical forests, focusing specifically on forest landscape restoration (FLR). It addresses the importance of implementing FLR and provides two detailed case studies to demonstrate this.
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Deforestation and degradation of forests

1992
Forest cover is of great ecological importance. It protects and stabilizes soils and local climates, improves the soil’s ability to hold water, and in eases the efficiency with which nutrients are cycled between the soil and vegetation. Forests also provide a habitat for people and numerous plant and animal species.
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Forest Disturbances and Soil Degradation

2013
Forests have been disturbed by natural and anthropogenic agents from the day they evolved on this planet. Harvesting , fuelwood collection , windthrow , insect and disease outbreak, flooding , fires, shifting cultivation , grazing etc. are the main forest disturbance processes.
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The nature of forest degradation

Silva Gandavensis, 1991
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Are Soils in Degraded Dipterocarp Forest Ecosystems Deteriorated? A Comparison of Imperata Grasslands, Degraded Secondary Forests, and Primary Forests

2000
Many primary forests in the tropical regions of the world have been converted into degraded secondary forests and grasslands of species such asImperata cylindrica.The main destructive agents responsible include illegal logging, slash-and-burn cultivation, extensive cattle grazing and natural forest fires (Fatawi and Mori, Chapter 1, this volume ...
Seiichi Ohta, Kazuhito Morisada, Nagaharu Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Kiyono, Syarif Effendi   +4 more
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Rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest lands

The Environmentalist, 1985
The area of tropical forest lands in high rainfall areas that is already degraded is great and growing rapidly. Rehabilitation of such lands is important so their biological productivity can support people and reduce pressures for degradation of additional tropical forest lands.
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Monitoring temperate forest degradation on Google Earth Engine using Landsat time series analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021
Shijuan Chen, Curtis E Woodcock, Eric L Bullock   +2 more
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Forest restoration on degraded sites

2002
In Central Europe many forest soils are highly acidified. In the future management of forests concepts have to be developed as to, how reclamation of these soils can be achieved. Liming and fertilizing is one option, which may be combined with the selection and planting of site-specific tree species and with the establishment of an appropriate soil ...
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Connotation of forest degradation and the measure of forest degradation in China

TARU Journal of Organizational Behavior & Analytics, 2019
Hui-Min Chen, Yun-Bao Xu
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