What are the effects of farming on temperate forests?
Ok, i found some info that is really for rainforest but the overall idea can be transferred to temperate forest as well. Agricultural use of some rainforest land proves to be a failure because of the nutrient-deficient, acidic soils of these forests. Nevertheless, many commercial agricultural projects are still carried out on rainforest lands, although many of these revert to cattle pasture after soils are depleted. Some floodplain regions, like those of the lower Amazon (várzea), are more suitable for commercial agriculture because annual floods replenish nutrient stores. Generally forest clearers use slash-and-burn techniques to clear land, but on a much larger scale than traditional practices. Instead of burning a mere 2-10 acres (1-4 ha), agriculturalists burn hundreds to thousands of hectares. This slash-and-burn technique is generally wasteful since it is only occasionally that trees with timber value are removed before the forest is clear cut and left to dry. Following cutting,
