Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes
forest in Madagascar.Primate Report 46-1. Göttingen, Germany: German Primate Cen- ter (DPZ). Peters, H. A. 2001. Clidemia hirtai ...
Amazonian frog community: a ten-year study. Pages 124–137 in W. F. Laurance and R. O. Bierregaard (eds.), Tropical forest remnan ...
Chapter 3 Landscape Connectivity and Biological Corridors Susan G. W. Laurance Natural habitats in the tropics are being convert ...
a corridor and the behavior of wildlife species that may attempt to use the cor- ridor (Merriam 1984). The general assumption un ...
benefiting ecosystem processes (Bennett 1998). Alternatively, some studies have warned of the potential costs of corridors, such ...
dors within their home range or between foraging and nesting sites (Lovejoy et al. 1986; Isaacs 1995; and see Bennett 1998 for r ...
of individuals in and out of the corridor and by their movements and repro- duction within the corridor (Figure 3.1; Bennett 199 ...
fire most commonly occur in managed pastures or slash-and-burn fields. Agroforestry areas normally are less susceptible to fire ...
population. Dispersal may result from density-dependent factors such as limited resources (food, shelter, mates) or density-inde ...
Habitat Quality Habitat quality is rarely uniform in landscapes because of natural variation in topography, soils, and vegetatio ...
year-round (i.e., keystone species) is especially important in corridors because their small area significantly limits the avail ...
can be an important factor for the movement of canopy and understory species. A discontinuous canopy may act as a barrier for sp ...
Agroforestry systems have the potential to increase the movements of plants and animals across the landscape and thereby contrib ...
Brown, J. H., and A. Kodric-Brown. 1977. Turnover rates in insular biogeography: effect of immigration on extinction. Ecology58: ...
Isaacs, J. L. 1995. Species composition and movement of birds in riparian vegetation in a trop- ical agricultural landscape.M.S. ...
Noss, R. F. 1987. Corridors in real landscapes: a reply to Simberloff and Cox. Conservation Biology1:159–164. Parendes, L. A., a ...
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PART II The Ecological Economics of Agroforestry: Environmental Benefits and Effects on Deforestation Tr opical farmers influenc ...
labor and capital constraints, characteristics of the agroforestry technology including labor and capital intensity, riskiness a ...
Chapter 4 The Economic Valuation of Agroforestry’s Environmental Services David Pearce and Susana Mourato Agroforestry practices ...
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