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Contribution of agricultural land uses to bird conservation: a case study of ecosystem service provisioning
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Understanding the contribution of agricultural land uses to biodiversity conservation is of utmost importance. With 38% of earth’s ice free land surface covered by crops and pastures, studying and understanding the potential ...
Mammal diversity, threats and knowledge across spatial scales
(University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
Herein we provide a global dataset and analysis framework to address declines in mammal populations and ultimately extinction risk. By making this data freely and publically available we hope that it can bring the best ...
Landscape effects on insect pests of Dracaena marginata and their associated natural enemies in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
This study examined how the landscape in which D. marginata is embedded affected the abundance and distribution of these three insect pest groups and their associated natural enemies. In order to evaluate the effect of the ...
Integrating insights for complex problem solving : applications for interdisciplinary pedagogy and water governance
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2014)
The following three chapters are a product of four years of hard work and extensive growth toward my PhD in Environmental Science from the Joint Doctoral Program of the University
of Idaho and the Centro Agronómico Tropical ...
Home-range and movements of Myrmeciza exsul (aves: thamnophilidae) in two fragmented landscapes in Costa Rica: evaluating functional connectivity
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
It is well known that fragmentation not only reduces the total amount of habitat available, but also simultaneously isolates the habitat that remains, preventing movement of organisms and processes in previously connected ...