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Browsing by Subject "Conservación de la Biodiversidad"

Browsing by Subject "Conservación de la Biodiversidad"

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  • Dan Janzen 
    Adler, Jerry (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2005-11)
    Dan Janzen, a University of Pennsylvania biologist, has worked to set aside 378,000 acres in northwest Costa Rica to create the Area de Conservación Guanacaste. The area is home to 4 ecosystems: tropical dry forest, tropical ...
  • Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates 
    Grenyer, Richard; Orme, C. David L.; Jackson, Sarah F.; Thomas, Gavin H.; Davies, Richard G.; Davies, T. Jonathan; Jones, Kate E.; Olson, Valerie A.; Ridgely, Robert S.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ding, Tzung-Su; Bennett, Peter M.; Blackburn, Tim M.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Gittleman, John L.; Owens, Ian P. F. (Nature, 2006-11-02)
    Global conservation strategies commonly assume that different taxonomic groups show congruent geographical patterns of diversity, and that the distribution of extinction-prone species in one group can therefore act as a ...
  • Institutional Arrangements for Adaptive Governance of Biodiversity Conservation: The Experience of the Area de Conservación de Guanacaste, Costa Rica 
    Basurto, Xavier; Jiménez-Pérez, Ignacio (University of Texas Press, 2013)
    While studies of the commons have devoted significant attention to understanding how to prevent the overuse of common-pool resources, the study of how common-pool resources or public goods are produced or created has ...
  • Integrity and isolation of Costa Rica’s national parks and biological reserves: examining the dynamics of land-cover change 
    Sánchez-Azofeifa, G.Arturo; Daily, Gretchen C.; Pfaff, Alexander S.P.; Busch, Christopher (Elsevier, 2003)
    The transformation and degradation of tropical forest is thought to be the primary driving force in the loss of biodiversity worldwide. Developing countries are trying to counter act this massive lost of biodiversity by ...
  • Tropical Ecological and Biocultural Restoration 
    Janzen, Daniel H. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988-01-15)
    Tropical wildlands (restored or preserved) are intellectual bumps on a verdant agroscape. Wildlands play the same societal roles as do libraries, universities, museums, symphony halls, and newspapers. They must be ...

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