title: Traditional shifting cultivation and the tropical forest system.
abstract: The idea of shifting cultivation as a compositionally diverse, and thereby adaptive, agrosystem has been overemphasized. Other aspects of the system, particularly its successional characteristics, are beginning to receive due attention.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Geography, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Eden