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Ecosystem biodiversity in lowland tropical rain forests of Central America: characterisation and applications to land management
(CATIE, 1999)
El nivel de ecosistemas es importante en la medición de biodiversidad y en la planificación tanto para la conservación, como para el manejo forestal. No obstante, estudios sistemáticos de la biodiversidad de ecosistemas ...
Mixed and pure tree plantations with native species at La Selva Biological station, Costa Rica: growth, productivity, nutrient cycling and recovery of ecosystem biodiversity; a project funded by: the A.W. Mellon Foundation results from 1990-1999 collection for articles
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1999)
Linking plant strategies and ecosystem function: an assessment of the contribution of biodiversity to neotropical grassland productivity
(2013-06-03)
To understand the diversity of strategies of resource use at the species and community level of co-existing species in semi-natural grasslands, I used three different approaches: a) the comparison of above-ground net primary ...
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 ...
Forest management for Belize trainers. Module 7. Trainers Handbook
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2011)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change?
(CIRAD, Montpellier (Francia), 2015)
Integrated management of environmental services in human-dominated tropical landscapes. Abstracts
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2005)
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 ...
The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
(Frédéric Mertens, Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil), 2018)
Protected areas (PAs) are a prominent approach to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. A critical question for safeguarding these resources is how PA governance processes and management structures ...