More than three-quarters of Mexico's coffee is grown on small plots shaded by the existing forest. Because they preserve forest cover, shade coffee farms provide vital ecological services including harboring biodiversity and preventing soil erosion. Unfortunately, tree cover in Mexico's shade coffee areas is increasingly being cleared to make way for subsistence agriculture, a direct result of the unprecedented decline of international coffee prices over the past decade.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2005Mexico
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
The Baekdudaegan Mountain Range is a backbone of the Korean Peninsula which has special spiritual and sentimental significance for Koreans and significant ecological value to diverse organisms. Despite the importance of this region, however, the natural environment of Baekdudaegan has been severely threatened by a variety of human activity and tremendous forest fires. To make management and restoration plans for the deforested areas, it is necessary to investigate quantitatively such natural and human-induced physical changes.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005Africa
Tropical land cover change experiments with fixed sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) and with an interactive ocean are compared to assess the relevance of including the ocean system in sensitivity studies to land surface conditions. The results show that the local response to deforestation is similar with fixed and simulated SSTs. Over Amazonia, all experiments simulate a comparable decrease in precipitation and no change in moisture convergence, implying that there is only a change in local water recycling.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005Indonesia
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