Biodiversity in small-scale tropical agroforests: a review of species richness and abundance shifts and the factors influencing them

By Ben R. Scales, Stuart Marsden. Environmental Conservation, 2008

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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): “Scales and Marsden (2008) reviewed studies of slash-and-burn fields, home gardens, and complex agroforestry systems (not including coffee), concluding that increased disturbance and reduced rates of forest regeneration decreased species richness in 83% of studies ( N = 24).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “…biodiversity value across these land-uses are regionally consistent irrespective of fundamental inter-study differences in landscape context and research design, and the incorrect assumption that all small forest fragments slowly implode over time due to edge effects (e.g. Schedlbauer et al. 2007).”