Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes
Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes brings together 46 scientists and practitioners from 13 countries with decades of field experience in tropical regions to explore how agroforestry practices can help promote biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes, to synthesize the current state of knowledge in the field, and to identify areas where further research is needed.
Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes is the first comprehensive synthesis of the role of agroforestry systems in conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes, and contains in-depth review chapters of most agroforestry systems, with examples from many different countries. It is a valuable source of information for scientists, researchers, professors, and students in the fields of conservation biology, resource management, tropical ecology, rural development, agroforestry, and agroecology.
Preface
Introduction: The Role of Agroforestry in Biodiversity Conservation in
Tropical Landscapes
Part I: Conservation
Biology and Landscape Ecology in the Tropics: A Framework for
Agroforestry Applications
1. Biodiversity Conservation in Deforested and Fragmented
Tropical Landscapes: An Overview
2. Ecological Effects of Habitat Fragmentation in the Tropics
3. Landscape Connectivity and Biological Corridors
Part II: The Ecological
Economics of Agroforestry: Environmental Benefits and
Effects on Deforestation
4. The Economic Valuation of Agroforestry’s
Environmental Services
5. Is Agroforestry Likely to Reduce Deforestation?
6. Chocolate Forests and Monocultures: A Historical Review of Cocoa
Growing and Its Conflicting Role in Tropical Deforestation and Forest
Conservation
7. Achieving Biodiversity Conservation Using Conservation
Concessions to Complement Agroforestry
Part III: The
Biodiversity of Agroforestry Systems: Habitat, Biological
Corridor, and Buffer for Protected Areas
8. The Biodiversity and Conservation Potential of Shifting Cultivation
Landscapes
9. Biodiversity Conservation in Neotropical Coffee (Coffea
arabica) Plantations
10. Complex Agroforests: Their Structure, Diversity, and
Potential Role in Landscape Conservation
11. Live Fences, Isolated Trees, and Windbreaks: Tools for
Conserving Biodiversity in Fragmented Tropical Landscapes
12. Agroforestry Systems: Important Components in Conserving
the Genetic Viability of Native Tropical Tree Species?
Part IV: Biodiversity as
Burden and Natural Capital: Interactions between Agroforestry
Areas, Natural Ecosystems, and Rural Communities in Tropical Land Use
Mosaics
13. Wildlife Conservation in Agroforestry Buffer Zones: Opportunities
and Conflict
14. Hunting in Agroforestry Systems and Landscapes:
Conservation Implications in West-Central Africa and
Southeast Asia
15. Invasive Agroforestry Trees: Problems and Solutions
16. Diseases in Tropical Agroforestry Landscapes: The Role of
Biodiversity
Part V: Matrix Management in Practice: Agroforestry Tools in Landscape
Conservation
17. Agroforestry Buffer Zones and Stepping Stones: Tools for
the Conservation of Fragmented Landscapes in the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest
18. Agroforestry and Biodiversity: Improving Conservation Outcomes in
Tropical Northeastern Australia
19. Silvopastoral Systems: Ecological and Socioeconomic Benefits and
Migratory Bird Conservation
20. Agroforestry and Climate Change–Integrated
Conservation Strategies
Conclusion: Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical
Landscapes
About the Contributors
Index
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