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 ...

Se desarrolló un proceso de investigación-acción con productores ganaderos y funcionarios, con el fin de evaluar el comportamiento y el potencial de dos pasturas y una leguminosa para mejorar la calidad y cantidad de ...

Climate variability affects agricultural production systems and rural communities, generating risks to food security and increasing rural poverty. Therefore, improving the capacity of rural households to adapt to climate ...

addition, may interact with environment. To better understand shade trees effects on coffee leaf rust (CLR), we studied three disease stages separately: sporulation, uredospore wash-off by rain, and uredospore deposition ...

In the Neotropics the predominant pathway to intensify productivity is generally thought to be to convert grasslands to sown pastures, mostly in monoculture. This article examines how above-ground net primary productivity ...

Una mayor utilización de talleres participativos en investigaciones científicas, puede estar siendo limitada por la falta de independencia en las respuestas obtenidas en este tipo de metodología. La falta de repeticiones ...

Sustainable management of secondary forests for timber production offers the opportunity to combine nature-based climate change mitigation with direct improvement of human livelihoods in the tropics, but this dual potential ...