Simone G. Sporn

TL;DR: It is concluded that low-shade agroforestry provides the best available compromise between economic forces and ecological needs, and Certification schemes for shade-grown crops may provide a market-based mechanism to slow down current intensification trends.

TL;DR: It is concluded that different taxa can have largely independent patterns of alpha diversity and that patterns of beta diversity can be more congruent, and conservation plans on a landscape scale need to put more emphasis on the high heterogeneity of agroforests and the overarching role ofbeta diversity shaping overall diversity patterns.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the most cost-efficient approach to general tropical biodiversity inventories is to increase taxonomic coverage by selecting taxa with the lowest survey costs, and it is found that increasing the number of taxa resulted in best overall biodiversity indication.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the conservation of the forest-related biodiversity, and to a lesser degree of carbon stocks, mainly depends on the preservation of natural forest habitats, and potential win-win agroforestry management solutions include combining high shade-tree quality which favours biodiversity with cacao-yield adapted shade levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the agriculture-forest landscapes of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, an island widely known for its endemic yet still poorly known flora and fauna.