Guadalupe Williams-Linera

TL;DR: The ecological significance of edge vegetation as a buffer protecting forest vegetation from conditions in adjacent clearings is indicated, and neither environmental conditions nor the forest structure and tree mortality were influenced by proximity to the forest boundary.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantitatively reviewed data from ant, bird, and tree biodiversity studies in coffee agroecosystems to address the following questions: Does species richness decline with intensification or with individual vegetation characteristics? Are there significant losses of species richness in coffee-management systems compared with forests? Is species loss greater for forest species or for particular functional groups? and Are ants or birds more strongly affected by intensification?

TL;DR: The influence of anthropogenic disturbance on forest structure and composition in the highly populated Montane Rain Forests of northern Chiapas, Mexico was studied, with a high number of understory trees species in QPF, and an impoverished composition in PF.

TL;DR: A regional conservation approach will be required to reserve the last repositories of part of the tremendous biodiversity of the once continuous forest in this region.

TL;DR: Riparian strips and isolated trees in a pasture matrix could effectively function as a focus for rainforest regeneration and need to be incorporated into landscape designs for maintaining and enhancing ecological diversity.