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Priorización de áreas para el pago por servicios ambientales (PSA) en 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 ...
Factors affecting variation in forest community characteristics and leaf-litter decomposition in tropical montane forest of Chiapas, México A functional ecology approach
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016)
A functional ecology approach was combined with floristic studies to seek increased ecological understanding of forest characteristics and processes in the Central Highlands of Chiapas State, Mexico. The study had two main ...
Systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services: opportunities for improving spatial targeting of ecosystem service payments in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016)
Tropical forests are of high conservation priority world-wide due their high value for harboring
biodiversity and providing ecosystem services from the local to global scale. Financial resources for
conservation are ...
Diagnosing collective action in Small-Scale Fisheries for the establishment and management of Marine Areas of Responsible Fishing (AMPR) in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2018)
Costa Rican institutional efforts for addressing fishing resource overexploitation have been diversified over the years, with the latest measures involving local communities in their management. Marine Areas of Responsible ...
Strategic planning for sustainable organic hillside agriculture with a farming system and value chain model in Nicoya, Guanacaste
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017)
La enfermedad de la roya anaranjada que se da en el café, es causada por el patógeno llamado Hemileia vastatrix. Este es un hongo que causa pérdidas económicas a este cultivo, como las producidas durante el ataque del ...
Estimation of aquifer recharge measured by the isotopic fractionation of water vapor and the hydrological balance of the soil in the dry tropical forest of Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2022)
It develop an approach of an hourly, lumped, conceptual, tracer-aided water balance model that simulates aquifer recharge in a dry tropical forest in Costa Rica. The model considers evaporative fractionation by estimating ...
Ecological and economic factors affecting the sustainable production of camedor palm (Chamaedorea elegans Mart) in Petén, Guatemala and Veracruz, México
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007)
a mayor altura, mayor numero de hojas comerciales. El precio de mercado local de las hojas fue variable, una gruesa de 100 hojas fue pagada en US 0.48 en Guatemala y en US 0.89 en México. La presencia de plagas fue ...
Generating knowledge about the Dracaena marginata pest complex to improve management strategies for crops exported from Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
This study aimed to develop knowledge on the population dynamics of the pest complex found in D. marginata and the actual relationship between plant size and pest incidence. It looked at the role of weed cover on insect ...
A patch-model for managed tropical lowland rain forests in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turriaba (Costa Rica), 2000)
The gap modelig approach was used to develop a simulation model for Pentaclethra forests of the Central American Atlantic Moist ecoregion. The model uses empirically estimated functions fitted from a eight-years field ...
Linking plant strategies and ecosystem function: an assessment of the contribution of biodiversity to neotropical grassland productivity
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) 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 ...