Factors controlling succession following slash-and-burn agriculture in Amazonia.

Agriculture & Biology

• shifting cultivation 100%
• Vismia 94%
• pioneer species 90%
• Amazonia 80%
• primary forests 46%
• root residues 28%
• wood residues 26%
• Melastomataceae 24%
• slash 23%
• tree age 22%
• carbon sinks 21%
• forbs 21%
• fruit trees 19%
• microhabitats 18%
• basins 16%
• biomass production 15%
• vegetation 13%
• grasses 13%
• farms 11%
• stems 11%
• degradation 10%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• shifting cultivation 93%
• agriculture 51%
• primary forest 36%
• aboveground production 23%
• fruit tree 20%
• vegetation dynamics 16%
• microhabitat 16%
• carbon stock 15%
• stem 12%
• grass 12%
• farm 12%
• mortality 10%
• decomposition 10%
• biomass 8%
• basin 7%