NCEAS Working Groups
Biodiversity and conservation value of agricultural landscapes of Mesoamerica
Project Description
This working group will synthesize information from research conducted across eight Mesoamerican countries to elucidate and promote principles for conservation action in human-impacted landscapes of Mesoamerica and to enhance the contribution to biodiversity conservation of forest fragments, extant agriculture, post-agricultural secondary forests, and forest restoration projects. Substantial ecological data sources are available now to develop such a synthesis and to promote the use of current knowledge in conservation planning, biodiversity assessment, corridor development, and transnational cooperation, all with local community participation. We anticipate that this internationally-based effort will provide scientific information critical to the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor and to harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural production throughout Mesoamerica.

Principal Investigator(s)
Robin L. Chazdon, Daniel M. Griffith
Project Dates
completed
Participants
- Miguel Altierri
- University of California, Berkeley
- Alexandre Bonesso Sampaio
- Universidade de Brasília
- Frans Bongers
- Wageningen University
- Douglas Boucher
- Hood College
- Julio Calvo
- Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
- Gerardo G. Ceballos
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- Robin L. Chazdon
- University of Connecticut
- Rebecca Cole
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Gretchen Daily
- Stanford University
- Alejandro Estrada
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- Bruce G. Ferguson
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
- Bryan Finegan
- Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE)
- Anabel Ford
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Luis Garcia-Barrios
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
- Jose A. Gobbi
- Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE)
- Daniel M. Griffith
- Saint Louis Zoo
- Manuel Guariguata
- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Sergio Guevara Sada
- Instituto de Ecología, A.C.
- Celia Harvey
- Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE)
- Karen Holl
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Oliver Komar
- SalvaNATURA
- Deborah Lawrence
- University of Virginia
- Robert Manson
- Instituto de Ecología, A.C.
- Miguel Martinez-Ramos
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Hermosillo
- Florencia Montagnini
- Yale University
- Helda Morales
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
- Ronald Nigh
- Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Sureste
- Susana Ochoa Gaona
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
- Stacy Philpott
- National Zoological Park
- Joel Saenz
- Universidad National de Costa Rica
- Cagan H. Sekercioglu
- Stanford University
- Lorena Soto-Pinto
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
- Victor M. Toledo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- Michiel van Breugel
- Wageningen Agricultural University
- John Vandermeer
- University of Michigan
- Hans Vester
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
- Mark Wishnie
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Products
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Journal Article / 2011
Correspondence: The value of attribution
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Presentations / 2007
Perspectivas para la conservación de especies de bosques tropicales en paisajes agrícolas
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Journal Article / 2007
Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances
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Journal Article / 2009
Beyond reserves: A research agenda for conserving biodiversity in human-modified tropical landscapes
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Book Chapter / 2011
Tropical dry forest biodiversity and conservation value in agricultural landscapes of Mesoamerica
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Report or White Paper / 2006
Biodiversidad y Conservación en los Agropaisajes Mesoamericanos
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Presentations / 2006
Variation in tropical forest regeneration along an agricultural land use gradient
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Journal Article / 2008
Integrating agricultural landscapes with biodiversity conservation in the Mesoamerican hotspot
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Journal Article / 2007
Old field vegetation succession in the neotropics
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Data Set / 2007
Ants, birds, and tree diversity: Coffee agroecosystem meta-analysis
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Journal Article / 2008
Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: Review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees