Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes
fertility sites) and tree crop monocultures (which may be more susceptible to pest and disease outbreaks than agroforestry plant ...
such deforested and often densely populated landscapes, agroforestry systems may maintain more species of plants, animals, and m ...
stronger winds and harsher microclimate of open agricultural fields and pas- tures, thereby increasing the size of the core area ...
native vegetation and crops. Risks associated with the use of exotic and poten- tially invasive tree species in agroforestry for ...
Johns, N. D. 1999. Conservation in Brazil’s chocolate forest: the unlikely persistence of the traditional cocoa agroecosystem. E ...
PART I Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology in the Tropics: A Framework for Agroforestry Applications This part of the boo ...
the negative effects of habitat fragmentation by reducing edge effects, increas- ing fragment connectivity, providing food or sh ...
Chapter 1 Biodiversity Conservation in Deforested and Fragmented Tropical Landscapes: An Overview Claude Gascon, Gustavo A. B. d ...
Tropical Ecosystems Tr opical ecosystems cover a large part of the earth’s surface and contain more than half of all terrestrial ...
Between 1990 and 2000, 14.2 million ha per year of tropical forest were deforested, with an additional 1 million ha per year con ...
preservation of biodiversity requires intricate knowledge of the patterns and processes that affect ecosystem function. The trop ...
resources, often leads to exploitive rather than sustainable use. Poverty, war, and social inequality generate environmental deg ...
and whether the species can use the modified landscape and find resources. For instance, nocturnal species may be better able to ...
species are homogenizing the global flora and fauna, which has led to extinc- tions and population reductions of native species ...
in air, land, and water (Garstang et al. 1996; Tilman 1999; Tilman et al. 2001). This has caused direct and indirect effects on ...
and shape of forest fragments, the presence and extent of abrupt forest edges, and the activities in the surrounding matrix. All ...
Figure 1.2. Global biodiversity hotspots (adapted from Myers et al. 2000). Major tropical wilderness ar eas are in the Amazon an ...
Major Tropical Wilderness Areas, which have much of their primary habitat still intact and contain high amounts of biodiversity. ...
of focusing on specific biodiversity-rich regions. Furthermore, this approach is critical in maintaining reserve areas with esta ...
ture, we have yet to translate much of this information into concrete actions to counter and mitigate these negative impacts. La ...
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