A small-scale land-sparing approach to conserving biological diversity in tropical agricultural landscapes

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 785-795

  Chandler, Richard B ^a,d   King, David I ^b   Raudales, Raul ^c   Trubey, Richard ^c   Chandler, Carlin ^a   Arce Chávez, Víctor Julio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Agroforestry; Integrated open canopy coffee; Land sharing; Land sparing; Shade coffee

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COFFEE; CROP YIELD; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FOREST COVER; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL REGION;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURE; AGROFORESTERÍA; AGROFORESTRY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CAFÉ DE DOSEL ABIERTO INTEGRADO; CAFÉ DE SOMBRA; COFFEE; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTEGRATED OPEN CANOPY COFFEE; INTENSIFICACIÓN AGRÍCOLA; LAND SHARING; LAND SPARING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESERVACIÓN DE TIERRAS; SHADE COFFEE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE; USO MÚLTIPLE DE TIERRAS;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGROFORESTERÍA; AGROFORESTRY; CAFÉ DE DOSEL ABIERTO INTEGRADO; CAFÉ DE SOMBRA; INTEGRATED OPEN CANOPY COFFEE; INTENSIFICACIÓN AGRÍCOLA; LAND SHARING; LAND SPARING; RESERVACIÓN DE TIERRAS; SHADE COFFEE; USO MÚLTIPLE DE TIERRAS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; COFFEE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

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EID: 84880700046     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12046     Document Type: Article

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