Justine Marie Gay des Combes

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Slash-and-burn agriculture and tropical cyclone activity in Madagascar: Implication for soil fertility dynamics and corn performance

Alexandre Buttler, Justine Marie Gay des Combes, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Thomas Guillaume

On the western coast of Madagascar, the dry tropical forest of Kirindy may disappear in the next 50 years because of its rapid conversion into agricultural land by slash-and-burn cultivation. The slash-and-burn fields are cultivated during 3 years in avera ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe, Madagascar

Justine Marie Gay des Combes

Slash-and-burn agriculture is considered as an important driver of deforestation in the tropics. In Madagascar, a biodiversity hotspot, this type of agriculture particularly threatens the tropical forest cover. On the south-western coast of the island, in ...

EPFL2017

Tropical soils degraded by slash-and-burn cultivation can be recultivated when amended with ashes and compost

Alexandre Buttler, Justine Marie Gay des Combes, Leia Soraya Véronique Falquet, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Clara Sanz Carrillo, Muhammad Saleem Arif

In many tropical regions, slash-and-burn agriculture is considered as a driver of deforestation; the forest is converted into agricultural land by cutting and burning the trees. However, the fields are abandoned after few years because of yield decrease an ...

Wiley2017

Distinct invasion strategies operating within a natural annual plant system

Justine Marie Gay des Combes, Thomas Spiegelberger

Alien plant species are known to have a wide range of impacts on recipient communities, from resident species' exclusions to coexistence with resident species. It remains unclear; however, if this variety of impacts is due to different invader strategies, ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Influence of redox regime and time on the in situ bioremediation of chromium in natural sediments

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Justine Marie Gay des Combes, Daniel Scott Alessi, Yuheng Wang, Leia Soraya Véronique Falquet

Amer Chemical Soc2014

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