Mongabay: Areas cleared for slash-and-burn agriculture recover faster when adjacent to a large block of untouched forest, but may take decades to regain a majority of their biodiversity after tree-felling, according to a new review of ecological studies, published in the December issue of Tropical Conservation Science, an open access journal. Teegalapalli Karthik of Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, India and colleagues synthesized a collection of studies that have examined recovery of …