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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Finnish Society of Forest Science
2017-01-01
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Series: | Silva Fennica |
Online Access: | https://www.silvafennica.fi/article/1618 |