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Landscape effects on insect pests of Dracaena marginata and their associated natural enemies in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
This study examined how the landscape in which D. marginata is embedded affected the abundance and distribution of these three insect pest groups and their associated natural enemies. In order to evaluate the effect of the ...
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 ...
Using medium and large-sized mammals as indicator species to measure connectivity and large infrastructure impacts in Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2019)
This research intended to use medium and large-sized mammals to evaluate the condition of a critical link of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC) in Costa Rica. Also, we intended to measure the impacts of a hydroelectric ...
The political economy of private transport regulation in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
Esta tesis caracteriza la economía política de la regulación del sector transporte costarricense mediante el análisis de un conjunto de cinco políticas: una revisión técnica vehicular, impuestos de importación de vehículos, ...
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 ...
Competitive strategies in community forestry: leveraging through second-tier collectie enterprises in Mexico and Guatemala
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
Although community forestry is widely recognized as a critical element in sustainable forest management strategies and the livelihoods of forest dependent people, the economic viability of community forest enterprises ...
Integrating insights for complex problem solving : applications for interdisciplinary pedagogy and water governance
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2014)
The following three chapters are a product of four years of hard work and extensive growth toward my PhD in Environmental Science from the Joint Doctoral Program of the University
of Idaho and the Centro Agronómico Tropical ...
Analysis of climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity of small coffee producers in Turrialba, Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2019)
In 2015, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and
the Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP) developed a rapid assessment tool to help
technicians and producers in Central America measure ...
Land use effects on geometrid and arctiine moth assemblages in the tropical lowlands of southwestern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
Land use change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity in tropical human dominated landscapes. Biodiversity assessments provide useful information on the responses of different taxa to these anthropogenic changes, ...
Home-range and movements of Myrmeciza exsul (aves: thamnophilidae) in two fragmented landscapes in Costa Rica: evaluating functional connectivity
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
It is well known that fragmentation not only reduces the total amount of habitat available, but also simultaneously isolates the habitat that remains, preventing movement of organisms and processes in previously connected ...