Over time, agricultural systems have undergone intensification with a view to increasing food
production and security. However, the resulting land use conversions have led to declines in …

Shifting agriculture in the tropics has been replaced by sedentary smallholder farming on a
few hectares of degraded land. To address low yields and low income both, the soil fertility …

Homegardens are generally regarded as a very complex, species-rich agroforestry system
managed in a sustainable manner over decades or even centuries. In many densely …

A change in land use from forest to livestock and agriculture is generally linked to a
potentially devastating effect on communities of flora and fauna. Tabasco is a state with the …

Throughout the tropics, agroforests are often the only remaining habitat with a considerable
tree cover. Agroforestry systems can support high numbers of species and are therefore …

Concerns over the capacity of the world's existing agricultural land to provide food for the
global population under climate change and continued biodiversity loss have set the stage …

In tropical countries, frequent anthropogenic disturbances are primary drivers of the
reduction in community diversity and local extinction of many insect taxa, including …

To assess the contributions of rustic shade cacao plantations to vascular epiphyte
conservation, we compared epiphyte species richness, abundance, composition, and …

Although conversion of natural forest to agriculture can negatively impact biodiversity in
many ways, some affected species may respond by dispersing across the forest–farmland …

Dung beetles are a functionally important component of most terrestrial ecosystems, but
communities change with habitat disturbance and deforestation. In this study, we tested if …