Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes
low level of funding and significant human pressures (Bruner et al. 2001), more parks and more effective parks are necessary. Ma ...
The underlying concept of agroforestry, or the practice of cultivating tree species and agricultural crops together or in sequen ...
Conclusions Many of the present threats to tropical biodiversity have been played out in temperate regions in the past few centu ...
Didham, R. 1997. The influence of edge effects and forest fragmentation on leaf litter invertebrates in central Amazonia. Pages ...
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Chapter 2 Ecological Effects of Habitat Fragmentation in the Tropics William F. Laurance and Heraldo L. Vasconcelos This chapter ...
These subpopulations may disappear frequently because of random demo- graphic events but are generally reestablished by immigran ...
by chance, small patches of forest inevitably sample fewer species than do larger forest patches. In the tropics this phenomenon ...
capture fleeing insects, feeding exclusively on flower nectar, or foraging only in clusters of suspended dead leaves. If critica ...
to recolonize even those isolated by only 80 m from nearby forest tracts (Strat- ford and Stouffer 1999). Clearings of just 15–1 ...
second growth (Williams-Linera 1990; Kapos et al. 1997), making them less permeable to lateral light penetration and the penetra ...
habitats (Gascon 1993; Kotze and Samways 2001). Others, including many insect species, respond rapidly to edge-related factors. ...
ical forests in Indonesian Borneo (Curran et al. 1999), peninsular Malaysia (Peters 2001), and eastern Amazonia (Cochrane and La ...
Of even more significance is that the matrix strongly influences fragment connectivity. Several species of Amazonian primates (G ...
intervals to control weeds and promote a flush of green grass, and these fires commonly burn into the understory of adjoining fo ...
Conclusions If it does not replace natural vegetation but rather is established in already- deforested lands, agroforestry has t ...
Acknowledgments We thank Jim Sanderson, Götz Schroth, Susan Laurance, and an anonymous reviewer for commenting on a draft of thi ...
Didham, R. K. 1997b. An overview of invertebrate responses to habitat fragmentation. Pages 303–320 in A. D. Watt, N. E. Stork, a ...
Kalko, E. K. V. 1998. Organization and diversity of tropical bat communities through space and time. Zoology: Analysis of Comple ...
Laurance, W. F., T. E. Lovejoy, H. L. Vasconcelos, E. M. Bruna, R. K. Didham, P. C. Stouf- fer, C. Gascon, R. O. Bierregaard, S. ...
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