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The Neguev revisited: a study of the agricultural changes between 1987 and 1996 in the Neguev settlement, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
The main focus of REPOSA is "development of an interdisciplinary methodology for the analysis and evaluation of ecologically and economically sustainable land use" (Jansen et al., 1996:1). The research is based on a ...
Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
(University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007)
Forest structure was examined at 20+ year old forest-pasture edges to assess edge effects. Stem density was significantly higher at forest edges than interiors due to an increase in small diameter trees close to edges. ...
Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: conservation and production decisions within the San Juan - La Selva Biological Corridor
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2007)
This dissertation develops a model linking social and ecological theories to explain this interaction. This model is applied to Costa Rica’s program of payments for environmental service (PES) as a case example. The model ...
Effects of Erythrina poeppigiana pruning residues on soil organic matter in organic coffee plantations
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Wales, Bangor (RU). School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, 2005)
The effects of Erythrina poeppigiana pruning residue effects on soil organic matter were investigated with three different objectives. Firstly, to study the effects of proximity of this shade tree on soil characteristics ...
Litterfall dynamics and nutrient cycling under different tropical forest restoration strategies in southern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
Islas (árboles sembrados en parches de tres tamaños), Control (regeneración natural) y Bosque Secundario joven (7-9 años). Los tratamientos (parcelas de 50 x 50m) fueron establecidos en junio de 2004 en seis sitios en el ...
LUST for mango: quantitative description of land use systems and technology for mango in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Part A). Mango yields in relation to different management aspects - a literature study (Part B)
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
The research described in this thesis was conducted within the Atlantic Zone Project (AZP) in Costa Rica in 1995. The program developed the USTED (Uso Sostenible de Tierras en el Desarrollo Sustainable Land Use in Development) ...
Climate Change Governance: the case of land-use based emissions MRV systems in Central America and the Dominican Republic
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017)
Measuring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) is a UNFCCC mechanism for monitoring climate
change mitigation and greenhouse gas emissions data. Although establishing MRV is a
priority in international discourse, it is a ...
Linking plant strategies and ecosystem function: an assessment of the contribution of biodiversity to neotropical grassland productivity
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Bangor University, Gwynedd (RU), 2011)
These issues were investigated in a range of paddocks with two types of cover: semi-natural grassland and sown pastures within an altitudinal range of 200 to 400 m. In nine paddocks, 11 sequential biomass harvests after ...
Contribution of agricultural land uses to bird conservation: a case study of ecosystem service provisioning
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Understanding the contribution of agricultural land uses to biodiversity conservation is of utmost importance. With 38% of earth’s ice free land surface covered by crops and pastures, studying and understanding the potential ...
How does increased vegetable varietal choice influence coffee farmers’ on-farm diversification strategies in the face of changing climate conditions?
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Crop diversification strategies are considered promising for Central American coffee farmers who are looking for solutions to confront rapidly changing climate conditions. Vegetable crops hold potential for diversification ...