Effects of farm and landscape management on bird and butterfly conservation in western Honduras

Ecosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Milder, Jeffrey C ^a,b   Declerck, Fabrice A J ^c   Sanfiorenzo, Andre ^c   Sanchez, Dalia Merlo ^c   Tobar, Diego E ^c   Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^d  

^a Department of Natural Resources Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Ecoagriculture Partners   (United States)

^c CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agroforestry; Biodiversity conservation; Birds; Butterflies; Ecoagriculture; Honduras; Land cover; Landscape ecology; Silvopasture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889886979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00003.1     Document Type: Article

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