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Title Agroforestry and biodiversity conservation in tropical landscapes / edited by Gotz Schroth [and others]
Published Washington : Island Press, ©2004

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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
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Subject Agroforestry -- Tropics
Agrobiodiversity -- Tropics
Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics
Agrobiodiversity conservation -- Tropics
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry.
Agrobiodiversity
Agrobiodiversity conservation
Agroforestry
Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects
Agroforstwirtschaft
Biodiversität
Naturschutz
Agroforestry.
Biodiversiteit.
Ecologia florestal.
Conservação biológica.
Ecologia agrícola.
Biodiversidade.
Tropics
Tropen
Form Electronic book
Author Schroth, G. (Goetz)
LC no. 2003023124
ISBN 1423765516
9781423765516
1559633565
9781559633567
1559633573
9781559633574
9781597267441
1597267449