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Litterfall dynamics under different tropical forest restoration strategies in Costa Rica
(2011)
In degraded tropical pastures, active restoration strategies have the potential to facilitate forest regrowth at rates that are faster than natural recovery, enhancing litterfall, and nutrient inputs to the forest floor. ...
FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity
(2011-01)
1. The growing interest in functional diversity has been accompanied by a proliferation of indices proposed to calculate its different components; however, empirical studies have been hampered by a lack of integrated tools ...
TRY – a global database of plant traits
(2011-01)
Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs – determine how primary producers respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic ...
Modelling the hydrological behaviour of a coffee agroforestry basin in Costa Rica
(2011)
The profitability of hydropower in Costa Rica
is affected by soil erosion and sedimentation in dam reservoirs,
which are in turn influenced by land use, infiltration
and aquifer interactions with surface water. In order ...
Belize Cattle Farms : potential to produce high value timber
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2011)
It addresses both landowners and the country, which could obtain more environmental goods and services, since, by incorporating and managing more trees in livestock farms, farmers can improve the yields and productivity ...