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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 ...
Una mirada temporal y espacial de territorios costeros de América Latina y El Caribe: elementos de anclaje para el devenir futuro
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2020-08-28)
Las acciones del proyecto apuntaron a desarrollar modelos y metodologías de gestión de zonas costeras, enfatizando en la resiliencia, mitigación y adaptación del cambio climático para enfrentar el riesgo de los países de ...
Relevance of secondary tropical forest for landscape restoration
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-05)
Tropical Secondary Forests (SFs) are vulnerable forest systems growing in areas that have been subject to unsustainable human activities leading to deforestation. SFs account for swathes of tropical forest landscapes that ...
Secondary Tropical Dry Forests Are Important to Cattle Ranchers in Northwestern Costa Rica
(2020-07)
In the dry regions of Central America, forests in cattle ranches are used as a refuge for cattle during
the dry season, and there is no much information about this practice. To determine the frequency of
this practice ...
La agricultura en la ciudad: reconociendo servicios ecosistémicos urbanos
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2021-05)
Applying conservation social science to study the human dimensions of Neotropical bird conservation
(2020)
As the global human population increases, and many bird populations in the Neotropics and the rest of the world continue to decline, the study of the intersection of humans, birds, and conservation has become more relevant ...
Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
(2020)
Comprised of 17 named tropical storms, 6 of which were major hurricanes, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season ranked as one of the most damaging and costly hurricane seasons on record. In addition to socio-economic impacts, ...
Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database
(2020)
Plant transpiration links physiological responses of vegetation to water supply and demand with hydrological, energy and carbon budgets at the land-atmosphere interface. However, despite being the main land evaporative ...
Biodiversidad en la ciudad: Conectando los espacios verdes.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2021-01)
Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests
(Editorial Board, 2021-11)
One-third of all Neotropical forests are secondary forests that regrow naturally after agricultural use through secondary succession. We need to understand better how and why succession varies across environmental gradients ...