Neotropical kitchen gardens as a potential research landscape for conservation biologists
Article Abstract:
Kitchen gardens, or home hardens, are important as agroecological examples in many cultures of the tropics of subtropics. After swidden cultivation, they are the second in importance, among agroecological features for traditional tropical societies. As natural tropical forests are done away with or degraded, these garden environments may be more and more important for some species including migrating birds. Cultural and economic changes are causing the most complex and diverse gardens to be more rare. Gardens of the Mopan Maya in southern Belize have been studied. Several factors are driving these people to abandon botanical knowledge.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 1998
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Response of avian communities to disturbance by an exotic insect in spruce-fir forests of the Southern Appalachians
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Introduction of the exotic balsam woolly adelgid insect (Adelges piceae), resulting in death of Fraser fir trees (Abies fraseri), has substantially affected bird populations of montane coniferous forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The boreal nature of avifauna has been diluted through declines in sensitive species, especially those that forage at canopy and subcanopy levels, and by invasions of birds common to open and disturbed forests. Characteristics of the spruce-fir habitat and associated species appear to be responsible for the changes in response to the adelgid invasion.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 1998
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