The present and future of insect biodiversity conservation in the neotropics: policy gaps and recommendations

NE Duffus, A Echeverri, L Dempewolf, JA Noriega… - Neotropical …, 2023‏ - Springer
Emerging evidence suggests that insect populations may be declining at local and global
scales, threatening the sustainability of the ecosystem services that insects provide. Insect …

Tree legumes: an underexploited resource in warm-climate silvopastures

JCB Dubeux, JP Muir, VXO Apolinário… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2017‏ - SciELO Brasil
Tree legumes are an underexploited resource in warm-climate silvopastures. Perceived
benefits of tree legumes include provisioning (browse/mast, timber, fuel, human food, natural …

Carbon contents and fine root production in tropical silvopastoral systems

DE Morales Ruiz, DR Aryal, R Pinto Ruiz… - Land Degradation & …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the increasing extension of land for livestock production, silvopastoral practices
have been among the promising approaches to enhance carbon (C) sequestration …

Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes

IJ Ausprey, FL Newell, SK Robinson - Conservation Biology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical montane bird communities are hypothesized to be highly sensitive to anthropogenic
disturbance because species are adapted to a narrow range of environmental conditions …

The conservation implications of mixed-species flocking in terrestrial birds, a globally-distributed species interaction network

F Zou, H Jones, D Jiang, TM Lee, A Martínez… - Biological …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Conservation biologists now view species interaction networks as systems that should be
targets of conservation, but there are few actual cases in which networks have formed the …

The economics and ecology of shade-grown coffee: A model to incentivize shade and bird conservation

JN Hernandez-Aguilera, JM Conrad, MI Gómez… - Ecological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Shade-grown coffee, which is grown under a forest-like canopy of trees, is a production
system widely regarded as environmentally sustainable and enabling for biodiversity …

The structure of mixed-species bird flocks, and their response to anthropogenic disturbance, with special reference to East Asia

E Goodale, P Ding, X Liu, A Martínez, X Si, M Walters… - Avian Research, 2015‏ - Springer
Mixed-species flocks of birds are distributed world-wide and can be especially dominant in
temperate forests during the non-breeding season and in tropical rainforests year-round. We …

Habitat ecology of Nearctic–Neotropical migratory landbirds on the nonbreeding grounds

S Albert, JD Wolfe, J Kellerman, T Sherry… - The Condor, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Of the approximately 716 bird species that breed in North America, 386 (54%) are
considered Nearctic–Neotropical migrants by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In the past …

Prioritize diversity or declining species? Trade-offs and synergies in spatial planning for the conservation of migratory birds in the face of land cover change

S Wilson, R Schuster, AD Rodewald, JR Bennett… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Stemming biodiversity loss requires strategic conservation guided by well articulated targets,
whether they be proactive (eg, protect biodiverse areas) or reactive (eg, protect threatened …

Community modeling reveals the importance of elevation and land cover in sha** migratory bird abundance in the Andes

LN Céspedes Arias, S Wilson… - Ecological …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The tropical Andes are characterized by extreme topographic and climatic complexity, which
has likely contributed to their outstanding current species diversity, composed of many range …