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Sustainable management of Miombo woodland in Tanzania
Miombo woodland is a very resilient vegetation type, however, continuous mismanagement will break the regrowth ability and general land degradation will take place. Monitoring of large scale deforestation in miombo woodland is possible with Landsat data. It is possible to assess conversion of miombo woodland into cleared and regrowth areas after first year of fallow.
The study suggested that regrowth from deforested woodland will take place rapidly if areas only was used a few years, however, it also showed that land use of more than 5 years on the same piece of land have traumatic effect on regrowth ability of miombo woodland. This result adds to the understanding of the deforestation versus regrowth rate, as well as degradation of virgin miombo woodland when exposed to intensive agricultural use. This change detection method can be used as a planning tool to interpreate the state of former deforested woodland areas.
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PRINS, E. and KIKULA, I.S. (1996): Assessment of deforestation and regrowth in SW. Tanzania using Landsat MSS data. Forest, Ecology and Management Vol. 84. 263-266.
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