Successional changes in vegetation and litter structure in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests

Volume: 44, Issue: 6, Pages: 747 - 767
Published: Aug 11, 2019
Abstract
The Lacandon Maya is an indigenous group who live in Chiapas, Mexico. Their traditional lifeways involve swidden, sequential agroforestry management that mimics ecological disturbance and modifies succession. Lacandon farmers use fire to clear small plots for polyculture milpa agroforests, which they subsequently fallow. They actively manage all stages of their agroforests to provide ecosystem services and facilitate site recovery. However, it...
Paper Details
Title
Successional changes in vegetation and litter structure in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests
Published Date
Aug 11, 2019
Volume
44
Issue
6
Pages
747 - 767
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