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Dung Beetle Assemblages Attracted to Cow and Horse Dung: The Importance of Mouthpart Traits, Body Size, and Nesting Behavior in the Community Assembly Process
(MDPI, Basel (Switzerland), 2021-08)
Dung beetles use excrement for feeding and reproductive purposes. Although they use a range of dung types, there have been several reports of dung beetles showing a preference for certain feces. However, exactly what ...
Evaluación participativa de forrajes promisorios para zonas secas y su posible impacto en los recursos naturales de la subcuenca del río Jucuapa, Nicaragua
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007-04)
Se desarrolló un proceso de investigación-acción con productores ganaderos y funcionarios, con el fin de evaluar el comportamiento y el potencial de dos pasturas y una leguminosa para mejorar la calidad y cantidad de ...
Estimación del carbono a partir de inventarios forestales nacionales Buenas prácticas para la recolección, manejo y análisis de datos
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2017)
Este manual ofrece conceptos básicos de buenas prácticas para el manejo de bases de datos de inventarios forestales nacionales, su depuración, análisis y obtención de resultados. Se comienza con algunas consideraciones ...
FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity
(2011-01)
1. The growing interest in functional diversity has been accompanied by a proliferation of indices proposed to calculate its different components; however, empirical studies have been hampered by a lack of integrated tools ...
Cacao agroforestry systems improve soil fertility: Comparison of soil properties between forest, cacao agroforestry systems, and pasture in the Colombian Amazon
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-01)
The objective of our work was to evaluate soil quality in different cacao agroforestry systems (AFS) in the Colombian Amazon. We compared soil quality of AFS at the study site with soil quality of two control systems: a ...
Biomass of timber species in Central American secondary forests: Towards climate change mitigation through sustainable timber harvesting
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-06)
Sustainable management of secondary forests for timber production offers the opportunity to combine nature-based climate change mitigation with direct improvement of human livelihoods in the tropics, but this dual potential ...
Timber yield from smallholder agroforestry systems in Nicaragua and Honduras
The importance of tropical timber is increasing worldwide. However, the timber supply of tropical forests has been greatly impacted by growing deforestation associated with complex and restrictive timber harvest laws. In ...