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Introduction
I´m a tropical applied ecologist broadly interested in biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes. Most of my work focuses on understanding the conservation value of agricultural land uses using bird communities as proxies of biodiversity. I´m particularly interested in experimental methods that allow measurement and quantification of ecosystem services and in understanding the trade-offs between biodiversity conservation, ecosystem service provisioning and food production.
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- Lead Forests and Biodiversity in Productive Landscapes Unit
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Bees provide valuable pollination services by increasing crop yields. However, pollination services to crop quality – which often determines nutritional and financial value – have been less studied, particularly in tropical commodities such as coffee. Understanding how pollination affects coffee quality is critical because high-quality coffee on th...
Significance
Food production depends on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) such as pest control and pollination. Our knowledge about biodiversity benefits to crop production has increased in recent decades, but most studies treat ES separately and then add up their values. Ignoring that these services, being part of the same system, likely in...
Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species-level information is complete. Here we present the AVON...
Degradation, fragmentation, and loss of tropical forests has exponentially increased in the last decades leading to unprecedented rates of species extinctions and loss of ecosystems functions and services. Forest restoration is key to recover ecosystems health and achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. However, restoring forests at the lands...
Coffea arabica is a globally significant crop that benefits from pollination by bees. Coffee is an essential crop in Costa Rica, but market forces and climate change are increasing pressure on small farmers, making bee pollination services even more important. However, the rarity of regional and national surveys of pollinators in Costa Rica make it...
The expansion of anthropogenic activities drives changes in the composition, structure, and spatial configuration of natural landscapes, influencing both the taxonomic and functional diversity of bird communities. This pattern is evident in the Colombian Amazon, where agricultural and livestock expansion has altered ecological dynamics, avifaunal a...
Las poblaciones de aves en el continente Americano y la región Caribe están en declive. Revertir esta tendencia y conservar a las aves de una manera efectiva es una responsabilidad que debe compartirse entre todas las naciones de la región. El apoyo a los esfuerzos de conservación a menudo depende de una variedad de factores, muchos de los cuales t...
Livestock production is one of the most important agricultural sources of greenhouses gasses (GHG). Transforming the livestock sector is a critical task to mitigate the effects of climate change, and the implementation of silvopastoral systems (SPS) may be a way to do so. Carbon footprint (CF) estimation was carried out for 131 conventional livesto...
Jennie Duberstein
In 2023, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) introduced a Conservation Practitioner Award, which recognizes individuals or groups of biologists at any stage of their career for outstanding work in government agencies (from municipal, state, provincial, federal, or international levels) or nongovernmental organizations to f...
Lisa Sorenson
Stanley Senner
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) Schreiber Award honors extraordinary conservation-related scientific contributions by an individual or small team. Contributions from throughout the world and over any time period are eligible for this award, including applied research, restoration, and educational actions that...
El agua es un elemento fundamental para la generación de servicios ecosistémicos de aprovisionamiento. La comprensión de los servicios ecosistémicos hídricos requiere entender las interrelaciones entre hidrología, paisajes y ecología (Martin-Ortega et al.,
2015).
Los ranchos ganaderos albergan gran variedad de árboles que pueden ser manejados para generar beneficios (Marinidou y Ferrer, 2010).
A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural and regulating, that include carbon sequestration. In this study, we assessed the above- and belowground carbon stocks across six different land-uses in livestock-domin...
The cover image is based on the Letter AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds by Tobias et al., https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. The sword‐billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is exquisitely adapted to its trophic niche as an aerial pollinator of flowerings plants (angiosperms) in the high Andes. A new global data...
El cambio climático (CC) es uno de los principales problemas ambientales que afectan a la humanidad. La ganadería extensiva y sus malas prácticas contribuyen a exacerbar los efectos negativos del CC. Los sistemas silvopastoriles (SSP) promueven la inclusión de árboles en los ranchos, proporcionando así múltiples beneficios (Pérez, 2008, Navas, 2010...
Los sistemas silvopastoriles (SSP) se implementan con éxito en América Latina y el Caribe. Los SSP combinan pastos, arbustivas, árboles y animales en un mismo espacio.
Existen diferentes enfoques que permiten transferir conocimientos, en particular tecnologías agropecuarias. Sin embargo, la eficiencia de muchos de ellos es cuestionada al no considerar la participación de productores, por ello, el proyecto BioPaSOS (Biodiversidad y Paisajes Ganaderos Agrosilvopastoriles Sostenibles) optó por utilizar las Escuelas...
En México se practica ampliamente la ganadería extensiva, la cual contribuye a la degradación de las pasturas y suelos, a la pérdida de la biodiversidad y a exacerbar los efectos negativos del cambio climático (Zepeda-Cancino et al., 2016). La reconversión productiva, el paso de una ganadería extensiva a una ganadería sustentable es una alternativa...
Los sistemas silvopastoriles tienen gran potencial para simultáneamente aumentar la productividad de las fincas ganaderas y conservar la biodiversidad. Sin embargo, las investigaciones de quirópteros en paisajes ganaderos son escasas en México.
ABSTRACT
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region enjoys an exuberant natural wealth; with
16 percent of the planet’s land, the region is home to 40 percent of the world’s biological diversity. This report investigates and provides a good overview of the region’s efforts to mainstream natural capital and biodiversity concerns into public polic...
As the global human population increases, and many bird populations in the Neotropics and the rest of the world continue to decline, the study of the intersection of humans, birds, and conservation has become more relevant than ever. The field of conservation social science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the social sciences and humaniti...
Land clearing for agricultural use is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. Restoring natural habitat connectivity by retaining quality habitats and increasing on-farm tree cover contributes to species' mobility and persistence in agricultural landscapes. Nonetheless, remarkably few studies have quantified t...
Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), we partition the relative importance...
Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), we partition the relative importance...
Land clearing for agricultural use is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. Restoring natural habitat connectivity by retaining quality habitats and increasing on-farm tree cover contributes to species' mobility and persistence in agricultural landscapes. Nonetheless, remarkably few studies have quantified t...
Coffee is one of the most important tropical crops on earth, considering both its gross production value and the number of families that depend on it for their livelihoods. Coffee also grows within some of the world’s most biodiverse habitats, in areas predicted to experience severe climate change impacts. Like many other crops, coffee benefits fro...
Experimental exclosure of birds and bats constitutes a powerful tool to study the impacts of wildlife on pests and crop yields in agricultural systems. Though widely utilized, exclosure experiments are not standardized across studies. Indeed, key differences surrounding the design, materials, and protocols for implementing field-based exclosure exp...
Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related ecosystem services can be maintained by few abundant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 crop systems, we partition the relative importance of abundance and s...
Significance
Decades of research have fostered the now-prevalent assumption that noncrop habitat facilitates better pest suppression by providing shelter and food resources to the predators and parasitoids of crop pests. Based on our analysis of the largest pest-control database of its kind, noncrop habitat surrounding farm fields does affect multi...
The idea that noncrop habitat enhances pest control and represents a win–win opportunity to conserve biodiversity and bolster yields has emerged as an agroecological paradigm. However, while noncrop habitat in landscapes surrounding farms sometimes benefits pest predators, natural enemy responses remain heterogeneous across studies and effects on p...
La conversión de las áreas de bosque a áreas de producción agropecuaria continua siendo una de las principales amenazas para la conservación de la biodiversidad. Diferentes estudios han demostrado que los sistemas agroforestales son una alternativa viable para establecer un balance entre la producción de alimentos y la conservación de la biodiversi...
Understanding how species functional traits relate to the delivery of ecosystem services is essential to support on-going biodiversity conservation efforts. While much recent work has been conducted, relatively few studies relating functional ecology to ecosystem services has utilized field experiments, particularly for animal species. We used a fu...
Ecologists and farmers often have contrasting perceptions about the value of natural habitat in agricultural production landscapes, which so far has been little acknowledged in ecology and conservation. Ecologists and conservationists often appreciate the contribution of natural habitat to biodiversity and potential ecosystem services such as biolo...
In addition to its functions in cropland, agroforestry can also be considered in terms of its ecosystem services values. Concentrating on two different systems prevalent in Central America, this article reviews their role in maintaining bird diversity in coffee agroforestry whilst reducing incidence of coffee berry borer, a serious coffee pest. Tre...
Agriculture faces the dual challenge of feeding a 9-12 billion global population by 2050 and reducing its footprint on the environment. While the impact of agriculture on the environment is well recognized, and there are growing calls for efforts to reduce or mitigate this impact, the ecosystem services approach presents an alternative where ecosys...
Climate Smart (CS) agriculture in a territorial approach is defined by various actors as a combination of mitigation, adaptation and food security. However, current techniques fall short in capturing information of institutional ability of transformation, productive transformation dynamics and social development capacity. A territorial approach int...
Not only that we have to understand biophysical complex data such as adaptation, mitigation and food security of different livelihood systems that are woven and interconnected to each other, but we also understand, based on our own research that farmers decisions and social capacities are actually maybe even more important to define the state of a...
Human wellbeing depends on nature, but in spite of much work by and since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, it is not clear whether existing frameworks adequately analyze this relationship given our increasing market based societies. We report on a reassessment of this situation, developed at the recent workshop “Quantification of Ecosystem Serv...
Ecosystem-service production is strongly influenced by the landscape configuration of natural and human systems. Ecosystem
services are not only produced and consumed locally but can be transferred within and among ecosystems. The time and distance
between the producer and the consumer of ecosystem services can be considered lags in ecosystem-servi...
Background/Question/Methods
Fragmentation of tropical landscapes often drives biodiversity loss in the tropics. Consequently, the conservation value of agricultural lands has received much attention recently. Studies in Mesoamerica have found that live fences and agroforests, which enhance structural complexity of habitat, can provide support for...
Background/Question/Methods
Agricultural lands are increasingly important targets of conservation initiatives, being called upon not only to minimize their negative environmental impacts, but also to support habitat for biodiversity and sustain multiple ecosystem services. Reintroducing woody species as live fences has been promoted based on the...
RESUMEN La importancia de los paisajes agrícolas para la conservación de especies asociadas al bosque ha sido relegada a segundo plano, sin embargo, es cada vez más evidente que estos sistemas tienen una gran capacidad para mantener estas poblaciones. Para evaluar la movilidad de la especie Thryothorus rufalbus, la cual depende del bosque, se captu...
Availability and distribution of ecosystem services vary independently in response to live fences under distinct management. Structural complexity is a key trait influencing bird species assemblages and pasture productivity. There was a narrow zone of tradeoffs between services needed to support conservation and those need to support production ben...
Mesoamerica provides a unique context for biodiversity conservation in managed landscapes because of its geography, history of human intervention, and present conservation and development initiatives. The long and narrow form of the Mesoamerican landmass, and its division by a central mountain range, has served as both a bridge and a barrier. Conse...
Background/Question/Methods
Conserving ecosystem services is a pressing concern given their critical role in supporting human well being and sustaining both habitat and biodiversity in natural and managed ecosystems. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has documented that land management to maximize provision of agricultural goods such as crops a...
Fecha de recepción: 7 de abril de 2010 -Fecha de aceptado: 10 de octubre de 2010 resumen. El principal reto de los corredores biológicos como estrategia efectiva de conservación, es el de conciliar las necesidades de las poblaciones humanas con las de conservación de la biodiversidad. Lograr fusionar estas dos necesidades, requiere de comprender el...
Fecha de recepción: 7 de abril de 2010 -Fecha de aceptado: 10 de octubre de 2010 aBstraCt. Adept management may help assure the capacity of agricultural lands to contribute to biodiversity conservation. However, we have limited understanding of how management of different elements within designated corridor areas influences resource use among wildl...
The Bird Monitoring Program (BMP) has been working in a long term monitoring avian population since January 2008; one of the main goals of the program is trying to understand population dynamics in different land uses given the rapid conversion of agroforest coffee into sugar cane within the Volcanica Central Talamanca Biological Corridor (VCTBC)....
Después de un lapso de más de 100 años, se redescubrió Dendroica chrysoparia en Nicaragua. El 3 de abril del año 2002 un macho, quien formaba parte de una bandada mixta, fue observado en el cafetal orgánico de la Reserva Silvestre Privada de Nebliselva el Jaguar (13°13’43.32’’ / 86°03’08.88’’). Posteriormente se han llevado a cabo varias observacio...
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Question (1)
I already tried using pvisgam (itsadug library) and although it does include the color key (zlim code) this only works for partial effects. Thanks in advance.
