Carbon Stock in Slash and Burn and Alternative Land Uses at ASB Benchmark Sites in the Humid Tropics

The sites sampled in each country included undisturbed or selectively logged forests as the reference point; areas that had been recently slashed, burned, and cropped; and areas that were subsequently planted to pastures, tree plantations or agroforests, or areas abandoned to fallow regrowth.

This dataset, compiled by the ASB benchmark team, is unique in that it provides data collected and analyzed by standardized methods across sites. In addition, the information in this dataset on the carbon stocks and carbon accumulation rates in young fallow vegetation and agroforestry and plantation systems are rare for the tropics.