Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes
Second, the number of farmers and their degree of organization in coopera- tives or collectives influence the costs of negotiati ...
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PART III The Biodiversity of Agroforestry Systems: Habitat, Biological Corridor, and Buffer for Protected Areas This section of ...
identified, especially with respect to the large numbers of coffee pests and their natural enemies in complex coffee ecosystems. ...
Chapter 8 The Biodiversity and Conservation Potential of Shifting Cultivation Landscapes Bryan Finegan and Robert Nasi The most ...
agriculture” (p. 8) and mosaics of “various reconstitution phases.” However, we emphasize that fallows are primarily components ...
completely dependent on the existence of large areas of undisturbed forest. Land conversion as carried out by agricultural settl ...
because that mosaic meets at least some of their needs, or because the mosaic at least provides connectivity between remnant for ...
47,700 ha studied in young (3- to 10-year), intermediate (ca. 20-year), and advanced (40- to 70-year) fallow and secondary veget ...
productivity declines and farmers abandon land and may migrate back into the pioneer fringe; land is concentrated in the hands o ...
Hammond 2000; Harrison 2000). Shifting cultivation has persisted for a cen- tury or more on extremely poor oxisols in the Bragan ...
speed with which soil fertility is recovered decrease, and the time needed to control certain weeds in the patch increases. Incr ...
ther. Besides its agronomic importance, fallow length clearly is an important issue in the management of shifting cultivation la ...
only from seed. Among typical genera of short-lived pioneer trees (sensuFine- gan 1996) of the neotropics, Vismiaspp. may respro ...
adventive species originating from riparian vegetation and swamp forest (igapó) in Bragantina fallows. What are the characterist ...
for seed-dispersing vertebrates. Conversely, Carrière (1999) and Carrière et al. (2002) found that the practice of leaving remna ...
species, with dominance by this latter group potentially lasting for several decades. Forest structural characteristics such as ...
tations may be especially serious with respect to forest-dependent plant species. These have a low proportional abundance in sec ...
play an important role in the use value of a community or landscape to peo- ple and in the maintenance of ecological functions i ...
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