Impact of oil palm plantations on the structure of the agroforestry mosaic of La Gamba, southern Costa Rica: Potential implications for biodiversity

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-381

  Höbinger, Tamara ^a   Schindler, Stefan ^a,b   Seaman, Benjamin S ^a   Wrbka, Thomas ^a   Weissenhofer, Anton ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c Tropical Station La Gamba   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Land use change; Landscape corridor; Landscape metrics; Morphological spatial pattern analysis; MSPA; Oil palms; Piedras Blancas National Park

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; CULTIVATION; GENERALIST; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HOMOGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MONOCOTYLEDON; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIST; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

COSTA RICA; PIEDRAS BLANCAS NATIONAL PARK; PUNTARENAS;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84864292911     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-011-9425-0     Document Type: Article

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