English to Croatian Social Sciences Forestry / Wood / Timber ekologija

Forest degradation: Impoverishment of standing woody material mainly caused by human activities such as over-grazing, over-exploitation (for firewood in particular), repeated fires, or due attacks by insects, diseases, plant parasites or other natural causes such as cyclones. Very often degradation does not show up so much in decrease of woody vegetation but rather as a gradual reduction in biomass, changes in species composition and soil degradation.

Pojavljuje mi se i pojam deforestation koji sam prevela kao pretvaranje šuma u pustinje.