the negative effects of habitat fragmentation by reducing edge effects, increas-
ing fragment connectivity, providing food or shelter for fragmented wildlife
populations, and reducing the use of fire.
Chapter 3 discusses the potential role that agroforestry elements in the
agricultural matrix could play in increasing landscape connectivity by serving
as biological corridors for fauna and flora between remnant forest fragments.
As experiences from corridors of natural vegetation show, the effectiveness of
corridors for different plant and animal groups depends greatly on their size,
structure, and floristic composition and on the biology of the target plant or
animal species, and such background information must be taken into account
in evaluating and designing agroforestry corridors.
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