“…A small amount of man-made areas were reconverted to forest or other vegetative covers (mainly scrubland). This trend, associated with rural crisis and peasant emigration to the USA or new economical poles, has been documented elsewhere (Collier et al, 1994;Sah and Shimizu, 1998;García de Fuentes and Morales, 2000;López et al, 2001;Dunjó et al, 2003). Large areas of both temperate and tropical forests were affected by processes of disturbance and transformed to secondary forest.…”