s:686:"TI Slash-and-burn effects on carbon stocks in the humid tropics AU Woomer P L AU Palm C A AU Alegre, J.C. AU Castilla C AU Cordeiro D G AU Hairiah, D.K. AU Kotto-Same J AU Moukam A AU Riese A AU Rodrigues V AU van Noordwijk, M. AB 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. ";