Increasing habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes as a weed management strategy reconciling ecology and agronomy

Frugivorous Bats Maintain Functional Habitat Connectivity in Agricultural Landscapes but Rely Strongly on Natural Forest Fragments

Anthropogenic changes in land use threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning by the conversion of natural habitat into agricultural mosaic landscapes, often with drastic consequences for the associated fauna. The first step in the development of efficient conservation plans is to understand movement of animals through complex habitat mosaics. Therefore, we studied ranging behavior and habi...

Maintaining and Restoring Avian Habitat in Agricultural Landscapes

White-faced monkey (Cebus capucinus) ecology and management in neotropical agricultural landscapes during the dry season.

Habitat use by a C. capucinus troop was studied in an agricultural landscape during late dry season (March-April 1994) in northwest Costa Rica. Riparian forests, palm canals and living fence rows accounted for 82% of observations, significantly more than the other six habitats present. The study troop consumed 24 species of plants and five animals. Feeding concentrated on the introduced African...

Application of Habitat Abundance NRS534: Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes

In this brief, I attempt to describe the recent findings that the amount of habitat is the most important factor behind population persistence and abundance. Resource managers should, therefore, focus their attention on creating reserves that are as large as possible and not be persuaded by recent discussions, as indicated by Trzcinski et al. (1999) and Villard et al. (1999), that the careful c...

Habitat Re-Creation (Ecological Restoration) as a Strategy for Conserving Insect Communities in Highly Fragmented Landscapes

Because of their vast diversity, measured by both numbers of species as well as life history traits, insects defy comprehensive conservation planning. Thus, almost all insect conservation efforts target individual species. However, serious insect conservation requires goals that are set at the faunal level and conservation success requires strategies that conserve intact communities. This task ...