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Fuelwood Resources and Forest Regeneration on Fallow Land in Uganda
- Source :
- Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 14:19-32
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2001.
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Abstract
- East African forests have been largely converted to agriculture. The remaining forests hold many endangered species but are threatened by the heavy local demand for fuelwood. Here we evaluate fallow land in western Uganda as an alternate fuel source to diverse forests. We quantify the regeneration process on fallows, calculate tree bio-mass increases, and measure grass and woody herb biomass over 44 months. The biomass values we measured were typical or slightly below the average from 11 studies elsewhere in the tropics. Variation in biomass between our neighboring study sites exceeded that between sites on different continents, indicating the sensitivity of vegetation regeneration to local land use. Tree regeneration was extremely slow (0.46 g/m2/year); however, the woody herbs and grasses on a 4 year old fallow of ∼0.5 ha can provide much of a family's domestic fuel. Fallow land is generally abundant in western Uganda and can partially alleviate pressure on forests for domestic fuels. Fallows c...
- Subjects :
- Biomass (ecology)
geography.geographical_feature_category
Land use
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Agroforestry
Geography, Planning and Development
Endangered species
Tropics
Forestry
Vegetation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Grassland
Geography
Threatened species
Energy source
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1540756X and 10549811
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Sustainable Forestry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........73a8d9b253da48b4b67ceb73f67f2f44