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Drivers of biomass recovery in a secondary forested landscape of West Africa

2019-02-01

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The rapidly growing human population in West Africa has generated increasing demand for agricultural land and forest products. Consequently 90% of the original rainforest cover has now disappeared and the remainder is heavily fragmented and highly degraded. Although many studies have focused on carbon stocks and fluxes in intact African forests, little information exists on biomass recovery rates in secondary fore...

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Literature Corpus work: 70c0ce45-1274-5240-8cb6-a0870e97b963
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.021

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