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Dung Beetle Assemblages Attracted to Cow and Horse Dung: The Importance of Mouthpart Traits, Body Size, and Nesting Behavior in the Community Assembly Process
(MDPI, Basel (Switzerland), 2021-08)
Dung beetles use excrement for feeding and reproductive purposes. Although they use a range of dung types, there have been several reports of dung beetles showing a preference for certain feces. However, exactly what ...
Dimensions of social and political capital in interventions to improve household wellbeing: Implications for coffee-growing areas in southern Colombia
(2021)
This paper studies the influence of community capitals on well-being through a Community Capital Index (CCI) within coffee-growing families in southern Colombia. Our results show different farm typologies, with different ...
Aportes a la investigación, fortalecimiento de capacidades y formulación de políticas para el sector cafetalero en 20 años de ensayos de sistemas agroforestales con café
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2021)
A finales de los años 1990 el CATIE, con apoyo de varias ins tituciones, inició una red de ensayos de largo plazo en sistemas
agroforestales con café. Los vacíos de información sobre las inte racciones agroecológicas en ...
Timber yield from smallholder agroforestry systems in Nicaragua and Honduras
The importance of tropical timber is increasing worldwide. However, the timber supply of tropical forests has been greatly impacted by growing deforestation associated with complex and restrictive timber harvest laws. In ...
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) ...
Características y rasgos funcionales de los árboles y su efecto sobre la transferencia de lluvia y captura de nutrientes
(2013-08-16)
El estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar el efecto de las características de las plantas y los rasgos funcionales de la copa de árboles: Albizia saman, Coccoloba caracasana, Coccoloba floribunda, Crescentia alata, Enterolobium ...
Human pressure on water quality and water yield in the upper Grijalva river basin in the Mexico-Guatemala border
(ELSEVIER, 2016)
Forest ecosystems are major providers of high quality water and contribute to maintain a better distribution of base flows during the year. However, these environmental services have been adversely affected by human pressure ...
Relevance of local knowledge in decision-making and rural innovation: A methodological proposal for leveraging participation of Colombian cocoa producers
(Elsevier, 2020)
The local knowledge is constituted in the basis for decision-making and is an important part of the livelihood of rural families. Knowledge of cocoa crop management practices takes an essential role in the producers’ ...
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 ...