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Litterfall dynamics and nutrient cycling under different tropical forest restoration strategies in southern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
Islas (árboles sembrados en parches de tres tamaños), Control (regeneración natural) y Bosque Secundario joven (7-9 años). Los tratamientos (parcelas de 50 x 50m) fueron establecidos en junio de 2004 en seis sitios en el ...
LUST for mango: quantitative description of land use systems and technology for mango in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Part A). Mango yields in relation to different management aspects - a literature study (Part B)
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
The research described in this thesis was conducted within the Atlantic Zone Project (AZP) in Costa Rica in 1995. The program developed the USTED (Uso Sostenible de Tierras en el Desarrollo Sustainable Land Use in Development) ...
Climate Change Governance: the case of land-use based emissions MRV systems in Central America and the Dominican Republic
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017)
Measuring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) is a UNFCCC mechanism for monitoring climate
change mitigation and greenhouse gas emissions data. Although establishing MRV is a
priority in international discourse, it is a ...
How does increased vegetable varietal choice influence coffee farmers’ on-farm diversification strategies in the face of changing climate conditions?
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Crop diversification strategies are considered promising for Central American coffee farmers who are looking for solutions to confront rapidly changing climate conditions. Vegetable crops hold potential for diversification ...
A functional trait based approach to understand tropical forest composition and function in a Costa Rican landscape
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
Quantifying the factors driving tropical forest composition, structure and function is a continuous area of ecological research. Recently, novel approaches have enabled research
questions on this topic to be addressed not ...
Land use, hydrological processes and ecosystem services in the upper Reventazón watershed, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
Costa Rica experienced large scale deforestation between the 1940s and 1980s. Due to the rapid loss of forest, the Costa Rican government initiated the Pagos para Servicios Ambientales, or Environmental Service Payments ...
Potential of silvopastoral systems for economic dairy production in Cayo, Belize and constraints for their adoption
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2000)
El presente estudio se realizó en el distrito de Cayo, Belice. Se realizó una encuesta por medio de entrevistas a 40 productores en 12 comunidades en esta área con el objetivo de determinar y cuantificar las características ...
Analysis of climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity of small coffee producers in Turrialba, Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2019)
In 2015, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and
the Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP) developed a rapid assessment tool to help
technicians and producers in Central America measure ...
Land use effects on geometrid and arctiine moth assemblages in the tropical lowlands of southwestern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
Land use change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity in tropical human dominated landscapes. Biodiversity assessments provide useful information on the responses of different taxa to these anthropogenic changes, ...
Distribution of absorbing roots of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) and rubber (Hevea brasilensis Muell. Arg.) in mixed plantings in two ecological zones of Costa Rica
(IICA, Turrialba (Costa rica), 1962-08)
Se estudió la distribución de raíces absorbentes de árboles adultos de café y hule en cultivos intercalados en dos zonas ecológicas de Costa Rica. El método utilizado consistió en una modificación del método de trinchera ...