0 Fallow land is not planted with crops, in order to improve the quality of the soil: --
1 A fallow period of time is one in which very little happens: --
2 fallow land is land that a farmer does not grow crops on for a period of time, usually a year, so that the soil quality can improve --
3 used to describe a period of time in which there is not much business activity: --
Using forest fallows as a source of shade-tolerant timber species may be a viable alternative to regenerating these species in mature forests.
The age effect was clearer for the hemi-epiphytes, suggesting that species turnover takes places in the ageing fallows.
The species richness, density and biomass of both holoand hemi-epiphytes increased significantly from young fallows to old fallows and mature forests.
Holo-epiphytes were almost absent in the youngest fallows, whereas hemi-epiphytes, which were mostly represented by aroids, were already substantially present shortly after abandonment.
A statistical classification of the fallows was proposed based on shrub phenological course over the two cycles monitored.
An opposite trend was observed in the case of the planted fallows.
Results also hint that mixed fallows would be more effective than single species fallows in nutrient capture.
Therefore, for this field type other options have to be pursued to sustain production after shortened fallows.
