Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity?

By Shonil Bhagwat, K. Willis, Harry John Betteley Birks, Robert J. Whittaker. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008

769 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Forestry, Global and Planetary Change, Horticulture

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In Forestry

1. Z. Tchoundjeu
2. R. Leakey
3. G. Vendramin
4. D. Hertel
5. T. Tscharntke
6. Jos Barlow

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3. T. Tscharntke
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2. Y. Clough
3. R. Leakey
4. G. Schroth
5. T. Tscharntke

Citations in the corpus

• Forest loss or management intensification? Identifying causes of mammal decline in cacao agroforests (2014, background): “) agroforests have replaced the original vegetation and now provide important habitat for native tropical forest fauna (Bhagwat et al., 2008; Cassano et al., 2009).”
• The management of tree genetic resources and the livelihoods of rural communities in the tropics: non-timber forest products, smallholder agroforestry practices and tree commodity crops (2014, background): “…of natural tree stands in fragmented forest-agricultural mosaics by acting as ‘steppingstones’ or ‘corridors’ for pollen and seed dispersal that help to maintain the critical minimum population sizes needed to support persistence and, for managed forests, productivity (Bhagwat et al., 2008).”
• Agroforestry and Biodiversity (2019, background): “Individual findings as well as meta-analysis have reported greater mean richness of taxa in AF as compared to forests [30].”
• A spatial scale assessment of habitat effects on arthropod communities of an oceanic island (2009, background): “This important refuge role of planted forests has been emphasized on several occasions (Berndt et al., 2008; Bhagwat et al., 2008; Brockerhoff et al., 2008; Pawson et al., 2008).”
• Research, part of a Special Feature on Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes: Analysis and Management Options Balancing Ecosystem Services and Disservices: Smallholder Farmers' Use and Management of Forest and Trees in an Agricultural Landscape in Southwestern Ethiopia (2014, background): “Moreover, such forest patches and trees can contribute to biodiversity conservation because they connect forest fragments, serve as habitats, and ease pressure on protected forest areas (Manning et al. 2006, Bhagwat et al. 2008, Perfecto and Vandermeer 2008, Pulido-Santacruz and Renjifo 2011).”
• Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs (2012, background): “Intercropping is thought to promote over-yielding because different crops grown together can utilize more of the available resources (e.g., crops with different rooting depths can access a larger fraction of spatially stratified nutrients and water) or because one crop facilitates the growth of the…”
• Shaded Coffee and Cocoa : Double Dividend for Biodiversity and Small-scale Farmers (2017, background): “…that these systems have a considerable potential to conserve biodiversity, as complex agroforestry systems have been reported to sustain species richness equivalent to N60% of that of natural forests (Bhagwat et al., 2008; Harvey et al., 2006;Moguel and Toledo, 1999; Rice and Greenberg, 2000).”
• The role of forest genetic resources in responding to biotic and abiotic factors in the context of anthropogenic climate change (2014, background): “Trees in agricultural land or planted in corridors can enhance pollen-mediated gene flow between forest patches (Ward et al., 2005), allowing more effective responses to change (Bhagwat et al., 2008; Thuiller et al., 2008).”
• The adoption of silvopastoral systems promotes the recovery of ecological processes regulated by dung beetles in the Colombian Andes (2011, background): “…play a key role in reducing the negative impacts of agriculture on biodiversity conservation (Schroth et al., 2004) given that they retain a substantial part of the species present in the original vegetation remnants within landscapes dominated by human activity (Bhagwat et al., 2008).”
• Multifunctional shade‐tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes – a review (2011, background): “) with particularly useful multi-purpose species such as legume trees (for nitrogen fixation, wood production) (Bhagwat et al. 2008)”