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Linking plant strategies and ecosystem function: an assessment of the contribution of biodiversity to neotropical grassland productivity
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Bangor University, Gwynedd (RU), 2011)
These issues were investigated in a range of paddocks with two types of cover: semi-natural grassland and sown pastures within an altitudinal range of 200 to 400 m. In nine paddocks, 11 sequential biomass harvests after ...
A functional trait based approach to understand tropical forest composition and function in a Costa Rican landscape
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
Quantifying the factors driving tropical forest composition, structure and function is a continuous area of ecological research. Recently, novel approaches have enabled research
questions on this topic to be addressed not ...
Priority areas for payment for environmental services (PES) in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2005)
Se desarrolló una metodología para dar prioridades a las áreas en Costa Rica para recibir Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA). El estudio se sustenta en la Ley Forestal de Costa Rica de 1996, que dictamina los servicios ...
Effects of deforestation and riparian buffers on lotic communities in Southeastern Costa Rica: implications for biodiversity conservation in tropical streams
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007)
To examine the effects of deforestation on stream communities in southeastern Costa Rica and test the hypothesis that riparian forest buffers can reduce these effects, comparisons were made between forested stream reaches ...
Local knowledge regarding trade-offs among coffee productivity and other ecosystem services in a range of different agroforestry systems in Central America
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
This thesis gathers and analyses the local knowledge regarding ecosystem services in coffee producing regions of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua, and compares this knowledge across a range of farming conditions. The ...
Tropical bird assemblages in coffee agroforestry systems: exploring the relationships between landscape context, structural complexity and bird communities in the Turrialba - Jiménez Biological Corridor, Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2005)
El objetivo de este estudio fue el de explorar las relaciones que existen entre el contexto paisajístico (cobertura de bosque aledaño), la complejidad estructural y las comunidades de aves presentes dentro de estos sistemas ...
Birds, dung beetles and trees in a fragmented landscape of Cañas, Guanacaste: relationships between tree cover and biodiversity
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2001)
La agricultura ha alterado la cubierta de vegetación natural y ha fragmentado el corredor centroamericano. Aproximadamente el 63 por ciento del total de tierras de América Central está dedicado a actividades intensivas de ...
Soil biogeochemical patterns in the Talamanca foothills, Costa Rica: local soil knowledge and implications for agroecosystems
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) |
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2008)
Los objetivos de esta investigación están resumidos en cuatro puntos: 1) Entender como los agricultores indígenas Cabécares en sus tres comunidades expresan sus conocimientos locales de suelos mediante la ubicación de sus ...
The influence of habitat complexity and landscape context on the biodiversity conservation value of cacao agroforests in Waslala, Nicaragua
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
The objective of this study was to examine the effect of two critical elements for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: habitat structural complexity and landscape context. We tested the independent and ...
A geospatial data integration framework for mapping and monitoring tropical landscape diversity in Costa Rica's San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2006)
Landcover change has substantially reduced the amount of tropical rain forests since the 1950s. Little is known about the extent of remaining forest types. A multivariate analysis of 144 forest plots across Costa Rica's ...