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Bosque de Pino Secundario Herbáceo
Dec 13, 2014 20:59
9 yrs ago
Spanish term

Bosque de Pino Secundario Arbustivo

Spanish to English Science Environment & Ecology
Hello there, I am translating a document from the Mexican government about different ecosystems in Mexico. There are several different terms with the format "Bosque de [Tipo de Árbol] Secundario Arbustivo," so knowing how to translate this term will decipher all such terms for me. Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 secondary shrub pine forest
4 shrubby secondary pine forest
4 Shrub-like second-growth pine forest

Discussion

Chris Ellison Dec 18, 2014:
Matorral Wouldn't you expect to see "matorral" if this was scrub?
Jeffrey Jankowski Dec 16, 2014:
We need more detail about these ecosystems to determine whether the correct translation of "arbustivo" is "shrub" or "scrub". There is a very important difference between the two: shrub refers to a plant that is bush-like in its definitive form, while scrub refers to trees that are shrubby due to environmental factors such as poor soil. This has a huge implication in ecology, for a secondary pine shrub forest will, in the course of succession, will most likely give way to a tree-dominated composition, while a secondary pine scrub forest will probably stay that way due to the limiting environmental factors.

Proposed translations

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secondary shrub pine forest

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The general trends that take place during secondary succession are similar to those ... and then by shrubs, a pine forest, and finally a mature forest consisting of ...
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de K Zhang - ‎2010 - ‎Citado por 34 - ‎Artículos relacionados
diversity in tree and herb layer, but the shrub layer (including sapling) composition and diversity were similar to secondary forests. Although the pine plantation ..

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_coniferous_forest
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A pine forest is an example of a temperate coniferous forest. Temperate ... The understory also contains a wide variety of herbaceous and shrub species.
Peer comment(s):
agree José J. Martínez
1 hr
gracias José
agree Branka Ramadanovic
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agree neilmac
11 hrs
neutral Chris Ellison : Not sure if these are "secondary shrubs" or "shrub pines". ;o)
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shrubby secondary pine forest

We tend to use "shrubby secondary forest"

e.g. The morphology of juvenile stages of Platynothrus ...
www.researchgate.net/.../235328317_The_morphology_of_juveni...
... along steep roadsides in shrubby secondary forest, in dried‐out tussocks in closed forest stands, and .... 0044-5231/$-see front matter r 2007 Elsevier GmbH.

[text from the back cover] - Wetlands International
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by DA Scott - ‎1993 - ‎Cited by 48 - ‎Related articles
May 30, 1985 - No detailed botanical description of the forest is available. Land tenure: The ...... Shrubby secondary forest with Cocos nucifera appears on.


So maybe "shrubby secondary pine forest" would be your best bet here.
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Shrub-like second-growth pine forest

In the U.S., at least, "second-growth" forest refers to forest growing back after clear-cutting, or a fire. "Shrubby" is probably not incorrect, but not something I have ever heard used, at least in the U.S.
Example sentence:

Now second-growth forest, this mountain was once home to a vast indigo plantation

The goats in the Siteia region (18000-20000 animals) are breeds indigenous to Greece that are perfectly adapted to inaccessible areas with limited shrub-like vegetation.

Reference:

http://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/search?source=auto&query=second-growth

http://diccionario.reverso.net/espanol-ingles/arbustivo

Peer comment(s):
neutral Chris Ellison : Here's a link to the FAO definition of secondary forests. It's fairly common parlance. :o) www.fao.org/docrep/006/j0628e/J0628E10.htm You can see that "shrubby" is equivalent to the first regrowth stage.
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