Cacao boom and bust: sustainability of agroforests and opportunities for biodiversity conservation

Y Clough, H Faust, T Tscharntke - Conservation letters, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cacao cultivation holds a sweet promise, not only for chocolate consumers and cacao
farmers but also for conservationists who argue that diverse cacao agroforests may be used …

Forest restoration in low-and middle-income countries

JR Vincent, SR Curran… - Annual Review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
A series of international initiatives have set ambitious goals for restoring global forests. This
review synthesizes natural and social science research on forest restoration (FR), with a …

[HTML][HTML] Deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the loss of primate habitat

J Supriatna, M Shekelle, HAH Fuad, NL Winarni… - Global Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Sulawesi is an important island for primates. All 17 species that are found there are
endemics. The island also includes contact zones between species of macaques (genus …

Hand pollination, not pesticides or fertilizers, increases cocoa yields and farmer income

M Toledo-Hernández, T Tscharntke, A Tjoa… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Increasing demand for cocoa and climate-related yield declines have sparked a multi-
stakeholder debate on cocoa production strategies. Agrochemical inputs and pollination …

Pollination mitigates cucumber yield gaps more than pesticide and fertilizer use in tropical smallholder gardens

I Motzke, T Tscharntke, TC Wanger… - Journal of applied …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Pollination can be an essential but often neglected ecosystem service to mitigate crop yield
gaps. Pollination services are usually studied in isolation, and their relative role and …

Conservation value of cacao agroforestry for amphibians and reptiles in South‐East Asia: combining correlative models with follow‐up field experiments

TC Wanger, A Saro, DT Iskandar… - Journal of Applied …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although agricultural expansion is a primary threat to tropical biodiversity, experimental
studies evaluating the conservation value of tropical agricultural habitats are scarce. In …

Farmer perceptions of plant–soil interactions can affect adoption of sustainable management practices in cocoa agroforests

AC Wartenberg, WJ Blaser, KN Janudianto… - Ecology and …, 2018‏ - JSTOR
Despite extensive research focused on increasing the sustainability and productivity of
agricultural systems in the tropics, adoption rates of improved management solutions often …

Rapid deforestation threatens mid‐elevational endemic birds but climate change is most important at higher elevations

JBC Harris, D Dwi Putra, SD Gregory… - Diversity and …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Deforestation and climate change are two of the most serious threats to tropical birds.
Here, we combine fine‐scale climatic and dynamic land cover models to forecast species …

[PDF][PDF] The amphibians and reptiles of the Lore Lindu National Park area, central Sulawesi, Indonesia

TC Wanger, I Motzke, S Saleh, DT Iskandar - Salamandra, 2011‏ - uni-goettingen.de
While land-use change is rapid throughout Southeast Asia, the island of Sulawesi
(Indonesia) is of pressing conservation concern because of its exceptional number of …

Adoption of agroforestry in Northwest Viet Nam: What roles do social and cultural norms play?

MP Nguyen, T Pagella, DC Catacutan, TQ Nguyen… - Forests, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
This article presents research about the influences of social and cultural norms on the
adoption of agroforestry in the northwest mountainous region of Viet Nam. The farming …