Organic Wastes and Tropical Forest Restoration
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Tropical forest recovery and restoration
R a week goes by without a news report sounding the alarm of the continued destruction of tropical forests and the concomitant loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as water retention, erosion control and carbon storage. Much of tropical deforestation, particularly in Latin America, is a result of land clearing for pasture and other agricultural uses1. Increasingly, these lands are ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Conservation Science
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1940-0829,1940-0829
DOI: 10.1177/1940082918783156