Objective
This support action seeks to co-ordinate activity and build capacity amongst Central American countries to develop a research strategy for defining thresholds for tree cover that balance biodiversity conservation and productivity in agricultural landscape s along the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC). It builds upon and combines data collected and methods developed in Central America in two complementary EU INCO projects, FRAGMENT (ICA4-CT-2001-10099; 2001-2004), concerned with landscape level tree c over and biodiversity on pastures and CASCA (ICA4-CT-2001-10071; 2001-2005), exploring impacts of tree ver on coffee productivity. Implications of the findings from three Central American countries (Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua) will be explored i n the context of the whole Mesoamerican region stretching from Mexico to Colombia. This is to be achieved by establishing working groups comprising delegates from key research institutes from countries within the Mesoamerican region co-ordinated by CATIE and two European research centres with expertise in systems analysis and ecology and tree and crop physiology. The groups will collate information on tree cover, biodiversity and productivity in coffee plantations snd pastures respectively along the MBC, and in workshops for each land cover type develop protocols for data collection and interpretation that facilitate their inclusion in comparative analysis across the region. These findings will be combined and discussed at a synthesis workshop that will draw conclusions from the existing data, identify knowledge gaps and develop an integrated research strategy to define threshold levels of tree cover in agricultural landscapes along the MBC, with a view to future participation in EU programmes.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences soil sciences land-based treatment
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- natural sciences biological sciences biodiversity conservation
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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FP6-2002-INCO-DEV/SSA-1
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BANGOR
United Kingdom
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