Abstract
The study reviews one publication on the traditional land use system in Angolan highlands, three publications on modelling the growth and yield of nine tropical pine and six eucalypt species, and one publication on optimising the land use in Angolan highlands. The sources of data for the land use system analysis were two years field research and a review of previous studies going back to colonial times. The growth models were based on 19,388 radial increments from 1,059 measured pine trees and 10,499 radial increment observations measured on cores taken from 803 eucalypts trees. Linear programming (LP) was used to optimize the combination of alternative production systems. LP problems were formulated and solved for a baseline land use, improved diet, and maximal timber production land uses. The first study has implications for land use management (e.g. regarding length of fallow) and conflict management in Angola and elsewhere. The developed growth and yield model set included dominant height, diameter increment, tree height and self-thinning models for all the studies pine and eucalypt species. The model set makes it possible to simulate stand development on an individual tree basis. They showed good accuracy when the simulated stand development was compared to the observed development. Therefore, they can be used as a management planning tool in tropical pine and eucalypt plantations in Angola. The developed models were used in the last study to calculate the timber production in shortand long-rotation forestry. The last study showed that among the alternative production systems, cash crops under forest fallow showed the highest land expectation value (LEV). Changing diet by diversifying carbohydrate and protein sources increased LEV and reduced the seasonal need for women labour. In the maximal timber production alternative under food sufficiency constraint the optimal share of tree plantations was around 57% of the total land area.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Growth and yield model sets included dominant height, diameter increment, tree height and self-thinning.
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- pine and eucalypt speciese0
- Outcome
- dominant height, diameter increment, tree height and self-thinning modelse0
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e0“The developed growth and yield model set included dominant height, diameter increment, tree height and self-thinning models for all the studies pine and eucalypt species.”
Claim · model-written summary
The model set permitted individual-tree stand development simulation.
- Outcome
- simulate stand developmente0
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e0“The model set makes it possible to simulate stand development on an individual tree basis.”
t0“tropical pine and six eucalypt species”
Claim · model-written summary
Simulated stand development agreed well with observations.
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“They showed good accuracy when the simulated stand development was compared to the observed development.”
t0“tropical pine and six eucalypt species”
Claim · model-written summary
Cash crops under forest fallow had the highest land expectation value.
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e0“cash crops under forest fallow showed the highest land expectation value (LEV).”
Claim · model-written summary
Diet diversification increased land expectation value.
- Treatment
- Changing diet by diversifying carbohydrate and protein sourcese0
- Outcome
- LEVe0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Changing diet by diversifying carbohydrate and protein sources increased LEV and reduced the seasonal need for women labour.”
t0“tropical pine and six eucalypt species”
Claim · model-written summary
Diet diversification reduced seasonal demand for women’s labour.
- Treatment
- Changing diet by diversifying carbohydrate and protein sourcese0
- Outcome
- seasonal need for women laboure0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Changing diet by diversifying carbohydrate and protein sources increased LEV and reduced the seasonal need for women labour.”
t0“tropical pine and six eucalypt species”
Claim · model-written summary
Optimal tree plantation share under maximal timber production and food sufficiency was around 57% of land.
Verbatim
e0“In the maximal timber production alternative under food sufficiency constraint the optimal share of tree plantations was around 57% of the total land area.”