Quantifying landscape characteristics and linking them to ecological processes is one of the
central goals of landscape ecology. Landscape metrics are a widely used tool for the …

In this state-of-the-art review, we investigate the use of landscape metrics in landscape
ecology studies to predict structure of avian communities. We reviewed papers published in …

Social forestry (SF) has long been implemented in production and protected forests in
Indonesia. SF is considered to be a win–win solution for occupied and cultivated forest …

Aim Macroinvertebrates comprise a highly diverse set of taxa with great potential as
indicators of soil quality. Communities were sampled at 3,694 sites distributed world‐wide …

The objective of our work was to evaluate soil quality in different cacao agroforestry systems
(AFS) in the Colombian Amazon. We compared soil quality of AFS at the study site with soil …

The Amazon biome is under severe threat due to increasing deforestation rates and loss of
biodiversity and ecosystem services while sustaining a high burden of neglected tropical …

Abstract In the Colombian Amazon, the provision of soil-based ecosystem services is
threatened mainly by loss of plant cover. Methodologies are required that allow for a holistic …

Deforestation in Amazon region generates important changes in the landscape; for this
reason, agroforestry systems have been used to mitigate its impacts. Therefore, we …

The world's water ecosystems have been affected by various human activities. Artificial
intelligence techniques, especially machine learning, have become an important tool for …

Deforestation, which removes soil protection by plant leafs and roots, causes severe soil
erosion, since the beneficial effects of plant cover and root actions on soil erodibility are lost …