Back to forests in pre-Saharan Morocco? When prickly pear cultivation and traditional agropastoralism reduction promote argan tree regeneration

In the southwestern pre-Saharan arid zone of Morocco, the endemic argan forest () had been almost completely destroyed in the 1960s due to intensive coal mining and mixed cereal-livestock farming. These activities turned out to be unviable and a massive rural exodus occurred in the 1970s....

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Main Authors: Genin, Miguel, Alifriqui, Mohamed, Fakhech, Abdessamad, Hafidi, Mohamed, Ouahmane, Lahcen, Genin, Didier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society of Forest Science 2017-01-01
Series:Silva Fennica
Online Access:https://www.silvafennica.fi/article/1618