This chapter presents summary data on carbon stocks in forests and slash-and-burn land use systems from nine sites of the alternative to slash-and-burn project, located in Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia and Peru. This data can be used to calculate the immediate and longer term loss of carbon with slash-and-burn clearing and to take carbon stocks into account in multiple goal evaluation of existing and proposed land use systems.
Publication year
2000
Authors
Woomer P L; Palm C A; Alegre, J.C.; Castilla C; Cordeiro D G; Hairiah, D.K.; Kotto-Same J; Moukam A; Riese A; Rodrigues V; van Noordwijk, M.
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry, carbon, data collection, deforestation, humid tropics, land use, nutrient deficiencies, shifting cultivation
Geographic
Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, Peru
