{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1038/ncomms6612", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-27T16:18:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-11-26", "title": "Afforestation Or Intense Pasturing Improve The Ecological And Economic Value Of Abandoned Tropical Farmlands", "description": "Abstract<p>Increasing demands for livelihood resources in tropical rural areas have led to progressive clearing of biodiverse natural forests. Restoration of abandoned farmlands could counter this process. However, as aims and modes of restoration differ in their ecological and socio-economic value, the assessment of achievable ecosystem functions and benefits requires holistic investigation. Here we combine the results from multidisciplinary research for a unique assessment based on a normalization of 23 ecological, economic and social indicators for four restoration options in the tropical Andes of Ecuador. A comparison of the outcomes among afforestation with native alder or exotic pine, pasture restoration with either low-input or intense management and the abandoned status quo shows that both variants of afforestation and intense pasture use improve the ecological value, but low-input pasture does not. Economic indicators favour either afforestation or intense pasturing. Both Mestizo and indigenous Saraguro settlers are more inclined to opt for afforestation.</p>", "keywords": ["Conservation of Natural Resources", "Restoration ecology", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Environmental science", "Trees", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Livelihood", "Afforestation", "Agroforestry Systems and Biodiversity Enhancement", "ddc:630", "Ecosystem services", "Pasture", "Agroforestry", "Tropical Deforestation", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. 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A nivel mundial, cubren aproximadamente mil millones de hect\u00e1reas de tierra y contribuyen a los medios de vida de m\u00e1s de 900 millones de personas. Los sistemas agroforestales tienen la capacidad de secuestrar grandes cantidades de carbono (C) tanto en el suelo como en la biomasa. Sin embargo, estos sistemas a\u00fan no se han considerado completamente en el enfoque de la contabilidad C desarrollado por el Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Clim\u00e1tico, en gran parte debido a la alta diversidad de los sistemas agroforestales y la escasez de datos relevantes. Nuestra revisi\u00f3n de la literatura identific\u00f3 un total de 72 art\u00edculos cient\u00edficos revisados por pares asociados con el almacenamiento de biomasa C (50) y con el carbono org\u00e1nico del suelo (SOC) (122), que contienen un total de 542 observaciones (324 y 218, respectivamente). Con base en una s\u00edntesis de las observaciones informadas, presentamos un conjunto de coeficientes de Nivel 1 para el almacenamiento de biomasa C para cada uno de los ocho sistemas agroforestales principales identificados, incluidos cultivos en callejones, barbechos, setos, multiestratos, parques, cultivos perennes sombreados, silvoarables y sistemas silvopastoriles, desglosados por clima y regi\u00f3n. Utilizando la misma clasificaci\u00f3n agroforestal, presentamos un conjunto de factores de cambio de stock (FLU) y tasas de acumulaci\u00f3n/p\u00e9rdida de COS para tres cambios principales en el uso de la tierra (Luc): de tierras de cultivo a agroforester\u00eda; de bosques a agroforester\u00eda; y de pastizales a agroforester\u00eda. A nivel mundial, los factores medios de cambio de stock SOC (\u00b1 intervalos de confianza) se estimaron en 1,25 \u00b1 0,04, 0,89 \u00b1 0,07 y 1,19 \u00b1 0,10, para los tres LUC principales, respectivamente. Sin embargo, estos coeficientes promedio ocultan enormes disparidades entre y dentro de diferentes climas, regiones y tipos de sistemas agroforestales, lo que destaca la necesidad de adoptar los coeficientes m\u00e1s desagregados que se proporcionan en este documento. Alentamos a los gobiernos nacionales a sintetizar datos de experimentos de campo locales para generar factores espec\u00edficos de cada pa\u00eds para una estimaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s s\u00f3lida de la biomasa y el almacenamiento de COS.", "keywords": ["emission factor", "Carbon sequestration", "Biomass (ecology)", "F08 - Syst\u00e8mes et modes de culture", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "climate change mitigation", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Climate change mitigation", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7427", "Agroforestry Systems and Biodiversity Enhancement", "Soil water", "11. 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The study targeted two main and dominant encroaching bush species in Borana rangeland, Acacia drepanolobium and Acacia mellifera, and their effects on some vegetation attributes and tick population dynamics. A hectare of rangeland encroached by these two acacia species was replicated/divided into three plots, and each plot was subdivided into five sub-plots to receive five treatments: cutting at 0.5 m above ground and pouring kerosene on stumps (T1), cutting at 0.5 m above ground and debarking the stumps down into the soil surface (T2), cutting at 0.5 m above ground alone (T3), cutting at 0.5 m above ground and dissecting the stumps (T4) and control (T5). Data on basal and litter covers, soil erosion and compaction, dead and re-sprouted encroaching tree/shrub species and nymph- and adult-stage tick populations were collected before and after treatment applications. The applied treatments significantly influenced (p < 0.05) basal cover, nymph- and adult-stage tick population and the two encroaching tree species. The results of this study showed that T3 and T2 were good in controlling A. drepanolobium in that order. T4 and T2 had a significant effect in controlling A. mellifera in their order. Controlling bush encroachment had also a positive effect in eradicating the tick population. The most dominant grass and non-grass species observed after the control actions were Cenchrus ciliaris, Chrysopogon aucheri, Abutilon hirtum, Pennisetum mezianum, Dyschoriste hildebrandtii, Zaleya pentandra and Eragrostis papposa. Therefore, controlling encroaching tree/shrub species had created a conducive grazing area with palatable herbaceous species for the livestock and unequivocally reduced tick population which play a role in reducing cattle milk production through closing off teats. 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