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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117938
	Forest quality-based assessment of the Returning Farmland to Forest Program at the community level in SW China
	Li W.; Chen J.; Zhang Z.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0378-1127
卷号	461
英文摘要	The Returning Farmland to Forest Program (RFFP) has played an important role in controlling soil erosion, increasing vegetation cover, and transforming rural livelihoods in China. The program may promote vegetation restoration, increase the proportion of households engaged in off-farm labor, and improve forest management, and thus contribute to enhanced forest quality. However, studies of RFFP's impact on forest quality at the community level remain inadequate. The purpose of this study was to test the following hypothesis: that RFFP implementation would lead to a significant difference in forest quality between communities with RFFP implementation versus those without. Twelve communities in Southwest China were selected as subjects, all being rich in biological and cultural diversity but have high poverty rates. We conducted a linked analysis combining forest quality data with socio-economic data to examine the effectiveness of RFFP at the community level. Forest community data were obtained through field surveys in July–August 2014, and socio-economic data was collected using a questionnaire survey. A forest quality index system was constructed using factor analysis, and the difference in forest quality between village that did and did not implement RFFP were compared. Key environmental and socio-economic variables affecting forest quality were identified by a constrained ordination method. Our results show that neither the structure, diversity, biomass nor soil fertility of the forest communities were not differed significantly between the village communities with and without RFFP. Elevation, fuelwood harvesting and solar energy projects contributed markedly to forest quality, suggesting that the RFFP probably did not directly drive the existing differences in forest quality among the 12 communities. Both natural and socio-economic factors affect forest quality. Considering current rural livelihood needs and the goals of expanding forest cover and improving forest quality, ensuring that land users have a meaningful voice in decisions about forest regeneration and establishing compensation mechanisms for forest management may be key directions to pursue in the future for sustainable development. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Environmental condition; Forest quality; Returning Farmland to Forest Program; Socio-economic survey
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Digital storage; Economic and social effects; Farms; Land use; Quality control; Reforestation; Rural areas; Solar energy; Surveys; Sustainable development; Vegetation; Compensation mechanism; Environmental conditions; Forest regeneration; Questionnaire surveys; Returning Farmland to Forest Program; Socio-economic factor; Socio-economics; Vegetation restoration; Conservation; agricultural land; environmental conditions; environmental management; environmental quality; environmental restoration; forest cover; forest management; restoration ecology; soil fertility; solar power; Conservation; Land Use; Plants; Quality Control; Reforestation; Surveys; China
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/155408
作者单位	CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China; School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li W.,Chen J.,Zhang Z.. Forest quality-based assessment of the Returning Farmland to Forest Program at the community level in SW China[J],2020,461.
APA	Li W.,Chen J.,&Zhang Z..(2020).Forest quality-based assessment of the Returning Farmland to Forest Program at the community level in SW China.Forest Ecology and Management,461.
MLA	Li W.,et al."Forest quality-based assessment of the Returning Farmland to Forest Program at the community level in SW China".Forest Ecology and Management 461(2020).