Research on Puerto Rico’s supposed “Forest Transition” (Rudel et al., 2000) has shown that forest area steadily increased amidst an exodus from the islands’ small farms beginning in the 1940s. The fear that small farms were deforesting the archipelago dates back to the earliest surveys made by US colonial officials. But while new forests have emerged in areas formerly occupied by small farms, large sugar plantations relinquished far more land during the 20th century. Unlike small farms, these vast areas have not become forests. While forest transition theory does not account for these divergent ecologies, its singular focus on small farms is consistent with the way political officials in the first half of the 20th century construed small fa...
Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on the Earth’s...
Forest transition is the change from net deforestation to net reforestation. According to the Forest...
Forest recovery is occurring in Panama and several other tropical countries following decades of def...
Increasingly, ecologists are recognizing that human disturbance has played an important role in trop...
The species composition of forests change continuously as the earth’s biota evolves and adjusts to e...
Forest transitions (FT) occur when socioeconomic development leads to a shift from net deforestation...
ABSTRACT. Forest transitions (FT) occur when socioeconomic development leads to a shift from net def...
The response of local economies to the globalization process can have a large effect on population a...
Contrary to the general trend in the tropics, Puerto Rico underwent a process of agriculture abandon...
This study examined landscape-scale forest dynamics in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (Puerto Rico...
Agriculture in Puerto Rico has declined sharply since industrialization of the island in the early p...
Abstract: On the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, forest, urban/built-up, and pasture lands have rep...
Islands are traditionally considered sensitive to environment and climate change. The Caribbean Isla...
For many years, tropical and subtropical forests have been deforested for agriculture, grazing, and ...
This paper discusses the socioeconomic, policy and ecological opportunities and constraints to the r...
Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on the Earth’s...
Forest transition is the change from net deforestation to net reforestation. According to the Forest...
Forest recovery is occurring in Panama and several other tropical countries following decades of def...
Increasingly, ecologists are recognizing that human disturbance has played an important role in trop...
The species composition of forests change continuously as the earth’s biota evolves and adjusts to e...
Forest transitions (FT) occur when socioeconomic development leads to a shift from net deforestation...
ABSTRACT. Forest transitions (FT) occur when socioeconomic development leads to a shift from net def...
The response of local economies to the globalization process can have a large effect on population a...
Contrary to the general trend in the tropics, Puerto Rico underwent a process of agriculture abandon...
This study examined landscape-scale forest dynamics in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (Puerto Rico...
Agriculture in Puerto Rico has declined sharply since industrialization of the island in the early p...
Abstract: On the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, forest, urban/built-up, and pasture lands have rep...
Islands are traditionally considered sensitive to environment and climate change. The Caribbean Isla...
For many years, tropical and subtropical forests have been deforested for agriculture, grazing, and ...
This paper discusses the socioeconomic, policy and ecological opportunities and constraints to the r...
Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on the Earth’s...
Forest transition is the change from net deforestation to net reforestation. According to the Forest...
Forest recovery is occurring in Panama and several other tropical countries following decades of def...