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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 ...
Multidisciplinary approach to support the design of a local policy of payment for hydrological ecosystem services, in a microwatershed located in northern Veracruz, México
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2009)
With the target to understand the complexity involved in the design of PHES policies, this thesis developed a methodology to generate basic information that will be used in the construction of local PHES policy. The ...
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 ...
Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: conservation and production decisions within the San Juan - La Selva Biological Corridor
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2007)
This dissertation develops a model linking social and ecological theories to explain this interaction. This model is applied to Costa Rica’s program of payments for environmental service (PES) as a case example. The model ...
Exploring the political economy of everyday life on the Costa Rican frontier from agrarian reform to the pineapple boom
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
The focus of this dissertation is to understand the process and implications of capitalistincorporation and agrarian change in the frontier region of Northern Costa Rica within the San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor. ...
Exploring the potential of sound management of forest and tree resources on cattle farms located in tropical dry forest of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Wales, Bangor (RU). School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, 2006)
The main objetive of this research was to contribute to a better understanding of the cultural, economic, social, political and biophysical factors underlying land use trends in the dry forest zone of Costa Rica, aiming ...
Monitoreo de la dinámica de sedimentos para la gestión hídrica del río Papaloapan (México) mediante aplicaciones geomáticas.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2020-01)
Se presentan los resultados obtenidos en la investigación sobre la dinámica de los sedimentos en tres subcuencas del río Papaloapan (México), enfocada al análisis del comportamiento histórico del transporte de sedimentos ...
Effects of silvopastoral areas on dual-purpose cattle production at the semi-humid old agricultural frontier in Central Nicaragua
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2004)
Cattle production in humid lowland tropics has been criticised for its extensive management. Dual-purpose cattle production system has been preferred by small and medium sized farMON in such regions due to low capital and ...