Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes

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EDITED BY Götz Schroth, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Celia A. Harvey, Claude Gascon, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, and Anne-Marie N. Izac ...

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Contents Preface xi Introduction: The Role of Agroforestry in Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes 1 Götz Schroth, G ...

Chapter 5: Is Agroforestry Likely to Reduce Deforestation? 87 Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz Chapter 6: Chocolate Forests an ...

Part IV: Biodiversity as Burden and Natural Capital: Interactions between Agroforestry Areas, Natural Ecosystems, and Rural Comm ...

Conclusion: Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes 487 Götz Schroth, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Celia ...

Preface Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising approach to natural resource management that combines ...

stages of its development. We would particularly like to thank a number of colleagues for their thoughtful and constructive revi ...

Introduction: The Role of Agroforestry in Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes Götz Schroth, Gustavo A. B. da Fonsec ...

In the last three decades, agroforestry has been widely promoted in the tropics as a natural resource management strategy that a ...

A landscape is defined in this book as a mosaic of ecosystems or habitats, present over a kilometer-wide area. Landscapes are co ...

several decades and tolerance of spontaneous forest regrowth, these systems gradually evolve into a type of managed secondary fo ...

Figure I.2. Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) agroforest in the lower Tapajós region, central Amazon, Brazil. Figure I.3. Complex agro ...

also retain, plant, or allow the spontaneous regeneration of trees in their pas- tures for shade, fodder, and timber production ...

ing from more drastic land transformations. Where landscapes have been denuded through inadequate land use or degraded agricultu ...