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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"agricultural frontier"”.
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Analysis of Objectives of the Development of the Agricultural Frontier of Nicaragua
… to determine the productive organization of the agricultural frontier of Nicaragua that would result in the maximization of economic and social benefits. This was assumed to be obtained by selecting a development strategy that would minimize the trade-offs between the established development …
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The Post-frontier: Land use and social change in the Brazilian Amazon (1992 - 2002)
… and biodiversity. The expansion of the agricultural frontier by small landholder farmers continues to be one of the major drivers of land use change in the Amazon region. Much of the recent research in the Brazilian Amazon has been focused on modeling their behavior in order to prescribe …
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Revisiting patterns and processes of forest cover change in the tropics: a case study from southeast Mexico
… showed forest cover gained terrain, while the agricultural frontier retracted. Drawing on a comparison between the household survey and previous analyses, it could be inferred that forest resurgence was produced by the decrease in the farming area and the increase in the abandonment of farming …
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Species Composition and Spatial Ecology of Amazonian Understory Mixed-Species Flocks in a Fragmented Landscape
With the ongoing advance of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon basin, it is inevitable that heterogeneous landscapes will play a key role in conservation. These landscapes are mostly composed of patchworks of small forest fragments, secondary forests and roads. Conservation, however must take …
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Land use change and natural Araucaria forest degradation : northeastern misiones - Argentina
… araucarian timber, as well as a growing need for agricultural land, however, leads to the circumstance that since the middle of the past century these forests were strongly exploited and cleared. In only 50 years, of the original existence of A. angustifolia in the Province of Misiones, from about …