Description |
1 online resource (xii, 523 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Biodiversity conservation in deforested and fragmented tropical landscapes / Claude Gascon [and others] -- Ecological effects of habitat fragmentation in the tropics / William F. Laurance and Heraldo L. Vasconcelos -- Landscape connectivity and biological corridors / Susan G.W. Laurance -- Economic valuation of agroforestry's environmental services / David Pearce and Susana Mourato -- Is agroforestry likely to reduce deforestation? / Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz -- Chocolate forests and monocultures / François Ruf and Göte Schroth -- Achieving biodiversity conservation using conservation concessions to complement agroforestry / Eduard Niesten, Shelley Ratay, and Richard Rice -- Biodiversity and conservation potential of shifting cultivation landscapes / Bryan Finegan and Robert Nasi -- Biodiversity conservation in neotropical coffee (Coffea arabica) plantations / Eduardo Somarriba [and others] -- Lives fences, isolated trees, and windbreaks / Celia A. Harvey, Nigel I.J. Tucker, and Alejandro Estrada -- Agroforestry systems / David H. Boshier -- Wildfire conservation in agroforestry buffer zones / Lisa Naughton-Treves and Nick Salafsky -- Hunting in afroforestry systems and landscapes / David S. Wilkie and Robert J. Lee -- Invasive agroforestry trees / David M. Richardson, Pierre Binggeli, and Götz Schroth -- Diseases in tropical agroforestry landscapes / Ulrike Krauss -- Agroforestry buffer zones and stepping stones / Laury Cullen Jr. [and others] -- Agroforestry and biodiversity / Nigel I.J. Tucker [and others] -- Silvopastoral systems / Robert A. Rice and Russell Greenberg -- Agroforestry and climate change, integrated conservation strategies / Lee Hannah |
Summary |
Annotation Forty-six scientists and practitioners from thirteen countries with decades of field experience in tropical regions explore how agroforestry practices can help promote biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes, synthesise the current state of knowledge in the field, and identify areas where further research is needed |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Agroforestry -- Tropics
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Agrobiodiversity -- Tropics
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Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics
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Agrobiodiversity conservation -- Tropics
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry.
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Agrobiodiversity
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Agrobiodiversity conservation
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Agroforestry
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Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects
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Agroforstwirtschaft
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Biodiversität
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Naturschutz
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Agroforestry.
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Biodiversiteit.
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Ecologia florestal.
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Conservação biológica.
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Ecologia agrícola.
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Biodiversidade.
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Tropics
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Tropen
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Schroth, G. (Goetz)
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LC no. |
2003023124 |
ISBN |
1423765516 |
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9781423765516 |
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1559633565 |
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9781559633567 |
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1559633573 |
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9781559633574 |
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9781597267441 |
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1597267449 |
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