کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
83171 158693 2016 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Beyond deforestation monitoring in conservation hotspots: Analysing landscape mosaic dynamics in north-eastern Madagascar
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
فراتر از نظارت بر جنگل زدایی در نقاط محافظت: تجزیه و تحلیل پویایی موزاییک چشم انداز در شمال شرقی ماداگاسکار
کلمات کلیدی
کشتیرانی، تغییر کاربری زمین، مناطق حفاظت شده، تشدید کشاورزی، پارک ملی مکیا، پارک ملی ماسوله
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک جنگلداری
چکیده انگلیسی


• We used a landscape mosaic approach to delineate shifting cultivation (SC) in Madagascar.
• Regional land use changes were assessed from 1995 to 2011.
• Continuous forest areas are restricted to the core zones of protected areas.
• SC is used to produce rice for subsistence 85% of the region.
• Intensification from SC to irrigated rice was the most common landscape change.

Due to its extraordinary biodiversity and rapid deforestation, north-eastern Madagascar is a conservation hotspot of global importance. Reducing shifting cultivation is a high priority for policy-makers and conservationists; however, spatially explicit evidence of shifting cultivation is lacking due to the difficulty of mapping it with common remote sensing methods. To overcome this challenge, we adopted a landscape mosaic approach to assess the changes between natural forests, shifting cultivation and permanent cultivation systems at the regional level from 1995 to 2011. Our study confirmed that shifting cultivation is still being used to produce subsistence rice throughout the region, but there is a trend of intensification away from shifting cultivation towards permanent rice production, especially near protected areas. While large continuous forest exists today only in the core zones of protected areas, the agricultural matrix is still dominated by a dense cover of tree crops and smaller forest fragments. We believe that this evidence makes a crucial contribution to the development of interventions to prevent further conversion of forest to agricultural land while improving local land users' well-being.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Applied Geography - Volume 68, March 2016, Pages 9–19
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