Conservation in tropical landscape mosaics: The case of the cacao landscape of southern Bahia, Brazil

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1635-1654

  Schroth, Götz ^a   Faria, Deborah ^b   Araujo, Marcelo ^c   Bede, Lucio ^d   van Bael, Sunshine A ^e   Cassano, Camila R ^c,f   Oliveira, Leonardo C ^c,g   Delabie, Jacques H C ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO OESTE DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Estudos Socioambientais do Sul da Bahia IESB   (Brazil)

^d Conservação Internacional ^*  (Brazil)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g Bldg 142   (United States)

^h CEPLAC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agroforest; Atlantic Forest; Cabruca; Landscape scale conservation; On farm reserves; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EVERGREEN TREE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURE RESERVE; SOCIAL POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WILDFIRE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BAHIA; BRAZIL;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 79958294761     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0052-x     Document Type: Review

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