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Making the post-2020 global biodiversity framework a successful tool for building biodiverse, inclusive, resilient and safe food systems for all
(IOP Publishing, Bristol (Reino Unido), 2020-08)
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of our economies to shocks, and it has laid bare deep inequalities in our society that threaten to derail the Sustainable Development Goals. Governments around the world are looking ...
Silvicultura de bosques secundarios y de bosques degradados: las intervenciones silvícolas para su manejo en Centroamérica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2021-01)
Muchos de los paisajes forestales tropicales se encuentran altamente influenciados por actividades humanas. Por lo cual se ven afectados por procesos de deforestación, fragmentación, sobrexplotación de recursos naturales ...
Patterns of shade plant diversity in four agroforestry systems across Central America: a meta‑analysis
(Nature, 2023-05-26)
Agroforestry systems can potentially increase tree diversity within agricultural landscapes, but to date, there is little understanding of the patterns of shade plant diversity within different agroforestry systems (AFS) ...
Islas de calor y regulación de la temperatura en la ciudad: Rol de los espacios verdes
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2021-01)
Economic valuation of the ecosystem services provided by the mangroves of the Gulf of Nicoya using a hybrid methodology.
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021)
Due to the public good nature of many of mangrove’s ecosystem services, markets for them do not exist and there is limited potential to manage them with conventional markets. Moreover, because of the difficulties in ...
Species interactions across trophic levels mediate rainfall effects on dryland vegetation dynamics
(2020)
Arid ecosystems are strongly limited by water availability, and precipitation plays a 2 major role in the dynamics of all species in arid regions, as well as the ecosystem processes that 3 occur there. However, understanding ...
Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2020-05)
Forests are among Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC’s) crown jewels. The region boasts roughly a third of the world’s forests, half of its tropical forests, and a quarter of its mangroves (Blackman et al. 2014). This ...
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa
(2021-01)
1. A greater taxonomic and functional diversity of natural enemies in agroecosystems is frequently positively associated with more effective pest control, due to the complementarity of species or traits. But this diversity ...
Cacao agroforestry systems improve soil fertility: Comparison of soil properties between forest, cacao agroforestry systems, and pasture in the Colombian Amazon
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-01)
The objective of our work was to evaluate soil quality in different cacao agroforestry systems (AFS) in the Colombian Amazon. We compared soil quality of AFS at the study site with soil quality of two control systems: a ...
Incorporación del Capital Natural y la Biodiversidad en la Planificación y Toma de Decisiones. Casos de América Latina y el Caribe
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2020-01)
La región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) goza de una riqueza natural exuberante; con el 16 por ciento de la tierra del planeta, la región alberga el 40 por ciento de la diversidad biológica del mundo. Este informe ...