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Litterfall dynamics and nutrient cycling under different tropical forest restoration strategies in southern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
Islas (árboles sembrados en parches de tres tamaños), Control (regeneración natural) y Bosque Secundario joven (7-9 años). Los tratamientos (parcelas de 50 x 50m) fueron establecidos en junio de 2004 en seis sitios en el ...
LUST for mango: quantitative description of land use systems and technology for mango in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Part A). Mango yields in relation to different management aspects - a literature study (Part B)
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
The research described in this thesis was conducted within the Atlantic Zone Project (AZP) in Costa Rica in 1995. The program developed the USTED (Uso Sostenible de Tierras en el Desarrollo Sustainable Land Use in Development) ...
Contribution of agricultural land uses to bird conservation: a case study of ecosystem service provisioning
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Understanding the contribution of agricultural land uses to biodiversity conservation is of utmost importance. With 38% of earth’s ice free land surface covered by crops and pastures, studying and understanding the potential ...
How does increased vegetable varietal choice influence coffee farmers’ on-farm diversification strategies in the face of changing climate conditions?
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Crop diversification strategies are considered promising for Central American coffee farmers who are looking for solutions to confront rapidly changing climate conditions. Vegetable crops hold potential for diversification ...
Seedbed anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz. Cacao strain) of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in Costa Rica
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1951-02)
Una enfermedad que ataca las plantículas de cacao fue encontrada en almacigales de la finca La Lola, ubicada en las tierras bajas del Atlántico, región productora de cacao en Costa Rica. Se encontró que el organismo causante ...
Potassium nutrition of abaca and a survey of the available potassium of an abaca plantation in Costa Rica
(IICA, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1955)
Los análisis mineralógicos de muestreo en plantaciones de Goschen, Monteverde y Good Hope, mostraron que más del 75% del contenido mineral estaba compuesto de piroxenos, plagioclasas y granos edafizados de estos dos ...
Soil biogeochemical patterns in the Talamanca foothills, Costa Rica: local soil knowledge and implications for agroecosystemsTesis de maestría
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2008)
3) Quantify the base cation nutrient reserves in aboveground and belowground pools in a cacao agroforestry and a shifting cultivation system to make predications about longâ™\term sustainability and 4) Utilize a ...
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 ...
Land use, hydrological processes and ecosystem services in the upper Reventazón watershed, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
Costa Rica experienced large scale deforestation between the 1940s and 1980s. Due to the rapid loss of forest, the Costa Rican government initiated the Pagos para Servicios Ambientales, or Environmental Service Payments ...
Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on ecology and conservation of migrant and resident birds in lowland Costa Rica
(University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007)
The overall objetive of my research was to understand the value of forest fragments to a diverse group of rainforest birds that depend on lowland tropical rainforest for their survival at one part or all of their annual ...