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A global assessment of animal community responses to agricultural management. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Transitions in agricultural management through crop and noncrop diversification on intensively managed croplands or pastures have benefited biodiversity. However, the extent to which agricultural management benefits species communities present in undisturbed ecosystems remains largely unclear.
Rodríguez SL, van 't Veen H, Clec'h SL, Alkemade R.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Large-Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Transforming recorded sound into meaningful ecological insights requires carefully designed methodologies. This workflow diagram describes the steps of our analysis (contained within circles labeled 1–7), which builds on best practices to correct for potential biases.
Delgado GL, van den Hoogen J, Dent DH, Bradfer-Lawrence T, Werden LK, Cole R, Quesada CD, Fajarado JJ, Rodríguez AM, Solorzano EM, Chacón GN, Coto M, Perez IS, Vahlas L, Liang Y, Crowther TW.   +15 more
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Combining spaceborne lidar from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation with local knowledge for monitoring fragmented tropical landscapes: A case study in the forest-agriculture interface of Ucayali, Peru. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We employed a co‐production approach leveraging spaceborne lidar and local knowledge to investigate the structural characteristics of the forest‐agriculture interface in Ucayali, Peru. Results indicated higher relative height ratios (RH50/RH95 and RH75/RH95) for mature forest compared to secondary forest (p < .0001), even after accounting for the ...
Cooley SS, Pinto N, Becerra M, Alvarado JWV, Fahlen JC, Rivera O, Fricker GA, Dantas ARLR, Aguilar-Amuchastegui N, Reygadas Y, Gan J, DeFries R, Menge DNL.   +12 more
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What makes a good pollinator? Abundant and specialised insects with long flight periods transport the most strawberry pollen

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 4, Issue 3, July–September 2023., 2023
Visitation and pollen data concluded that key pollinators of UK strawberry crops were abundant and had long flight periods (e.g. hoverfies, honeybees, wild bees). Pollinators also used non‐crop flowers, suggesting a need for diversity of resources. Abstract Despite the importance of insect pollination to produce marketable fruits, insect pollination ...
Edith Villa‐Galaviz, Alyssa R. Cirtwill, Rachel Gibson, Thomas Timberlake, Tomas Roslin, Jane Memmott   +5 more
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Ecological and evolutionary effects of crop diversity decrease yield variability

Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 1242-1253, June 2023., 2023
Results highlight the ecological and evolutionary role of plant interactions in crop mixtures, which can affect yield stability, while also reflecting on the importance of climate and resource availability in modifying the diversity‐stability relationship.
Jesús López‐Angulo, Laura Stefan, Nadine Engbersen, Christian Schöb   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global effects of forest modification on herpetofauna communities

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2023., 2023
Abstract As the area covered by human‐modified environments grows, it is increasingly important to understand the responses of communities to the novel habitats created, especially for sensitive and threatened taxa. We aimed to improve understanding of the major evolutionary and ecological processes that shape the assemblage of amphibian and reptile ...
Maider Iglesias‐Carrasco, Iliana Medina, Terry J. Ord   +2 more
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Plant chemical diversity and its frequency have distinct but complementary effects on insect foraging

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 59, Issue 5, Page 1362-1371, May 2022., 2022
Whereas previous work investigates how the amount of chemical diversity in a plant population influences insect ecology, our results indicate that local spatial distribution of diversity is equally important. A key implication of this work is the potential to design cultivar mixtures spatially, at the movement scale of target organisms, to create more ...
Kayleigh C. Hauri, Andrea E. Glassmire, Brendan Randall, Luke N. Zehr, William C. Wetzel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation planning on China's borders with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam

Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 1797-1808, December 2021., 2021
Abstract Transboundary conservation is playing an increasingly important role in maintaining ecosystem integrity and halting biodiversity loss caused by anthropogenic activities. However, lack of information on species distributions in transboundary regions and understanding of the threats in these areas impairs conservation.
Lin Wang, Bin Yang, Yang Bai, Xiaoqiang Lu, Richard T. Corlett, Yunhong Tan, Xiao‐Yong Chen, Jianguo Zhu, Yan Liu, Rui‐Chang Quan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tapping birdwatchers to promote bird‐friendly coffee consumption and conserve birds

People and Nature, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 312-324, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Though coffee was traditionally grown as an understory crop beneath mature trees (i.e. ‘shade‐grown’ coffee), most farms have been converted to full‐sun monocultures over time, which fail to support ecosystem services or biodiversity. The conversion from shade‐ to sun‐grown coffee has prompted the development of environmentally focused ...
Alicia Williams, Ashley A. Dayer, J. Nicolas Hernandez‐Aguilera, Tina B. Phillips, Holly Faulkner‐Grant, Miguel I. Gómez, Amanda D. Rodewald, Assaf Shwartz   +7 more
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Evaluación de sustentabilidad de agroecosistemas cafetaleros en Vitoc, Junín, Perú

Agroindustrial Science, 2021
El objetivo de la investigación fue evaluar la sustentabilidad de los agroecosistemas cafetaleros conducidos por los agricultores familiares del distrito de Vitoc, Región Junín.
Hector A. Tejeda Anglas, Maria del R. Utia Pinedo, Dionicio B. Luis-Olivas, Eroncio Mendoza-Nieto, Edison G. Palomares Anselmo, Elaine C. Gomes da Silva, Ariany das Graças Teixeira, Bruno Fardim Christo   +7 more
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