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Biblioteca Agricultural adjustment, population dynamics and forests redistribution in a subtropical watershed of NW Argentina

Agricultural adjustment, population dynamics and forests redistribution in a subtropical watershed of NW Argentina

Agricultural adjustment, population dynamics and forests redistribution in a subtropical watershed of NW Argentina

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Date of publication
Diciembre 2014
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AGRIS:US201400149361
Pages
1641-1649

Patterns of land-use and land-cover change are usually grouped into one of two categories defined by the dominant trend: (1) deforestation resulting from expanding agriculture and (2) forest expansion, usually related to the abandonment of marginal lands. At regional scale, however, both processes can occur simultaneously even in the absence of net change. Given the focus on net change, such redistribution of agricultural and natural and seminatural lands has been generally overlooked. The interaction between agriculture modernization, human demography and complex topographic gradients of northwestern Argentina has resulted in processes of both forest recovery and deforestation, thus providing the opportunity to analyze patterns and driving forces of land-cover redistribution. We analyzed 20� years (1986–2006) of land-cover change in a subtropical watershed in relation to topographic and demographic variables. Although net forest change represented

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Nanni, Ana Sofía
Grau, H. Ricardo

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