Pattern of forest recovery and carbon stock following shifting cultivation in Manipur, North-East India.

Shifting cultivation has resulted in large-scale deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics; however the abandoned fallows are known to have high potential for carbon capture. The paper is an attempt to determine the forest recovery patterns following shifting cultivation by evaluating the...

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Main Authors: Pentile Thong, Uttam Kumar Sahoo, Uttam Thangjam, Rocky Pebam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239906