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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 ...
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 ...
Patterns of shade plant diversity in four agroforestry systems across Central America: a meta‑analysis
(Nature, 2023-05-26)
Agroforestry systems can potentially increase tree diversity within agricultural landscapes, but to date, there is little understanding of the patterns of shade plant diversity within different agroforestry systems (AFS) ...
Impact of Shrimp Ponds on Mangrove Blue Carbon Stocks in Ecuador
(2021-06)
Mangrove forests play an important role in mitigating climate change but are threatened by aquaculture expansion. The inclusion of mangroves in climate change mitigation strategies requires measuring of carbon stocks and ...
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 ...
Species interactions across trophic levels mediate rainfall effects on dryland vegetation dynamics
(2020)
Arid ecosystems are strongly limited by water availability, and precipitation plays a 2 major role in the dynamics of all species in arid regions, as well as the ecosystem processes that 3 occur there. However, understanding ...
Manejo del recurso hídrico y vulnerabilidad a la contaminación del acuífero Guaraní en la cuenca del arroyo Capiibary, Paraguay
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2006-08)
Este trabajo analiza el manejo del recurso hídrico y la vulnerabilidad a la contaminación del acuífero Guaraní en la cuenca del arroyo Capiibary, Paraguay. Entre los principales problemas relacionados con el manejo del ...
Uso y manejo de la cobertura arbórea en sistemas silvopastoriles en la subcuenca del río Copán, Honduras
(2013-07-18)
productores ganaderos e identificar y cuantificar los usos, formas de utilización, preferencias y limitantes de la cobertura arbórea en fincas ganaderas en Copán, Honduras. Se realizaron 101 entrevistas,
las cuales ...