Biodiversity Conservation in Costa RicaLearning the Lessons in a Seasonal Dry Forest

Frankie, Gordon W.; Mata, Alfonso; Vinson, S. Bradleigh

doi:10.1525/california/9780520223097.001.0001

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“…However, overlap values and comparisons across time and conditions based on the two methods were similar. Home ranges and core areas were slightly larger overall during the dry seasons, which may indicate that spider monkeys need to cover larger areas in order to find sufficient food as the dry season is less fruitproductive in tropical dry forests (Frankie et al 2004) and at the study site (Asensio et al 2009). Therefore, during the more productive wet seasons spider monkeys could meet their physiological and nutritional demands within a smaller area (cf Hellickson et al 2008).…”

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Variability in core areas of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in a tropical dry forest in Costa Rica

2011

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Core areas are highly used parts of the home range on which the survival of solitary or group-living animals depends. We investigated the home range and core area size and area fidelity of a spider monkey community in a tropical dry forest over a 4-year period. Home ranges overlapped extensively across years, subgroup sizes, and seasons. In contrast, spider monkeys used core areas that varied in size and location across the study years, subgroup sizes, and seasons. These shifts in core areas suggest that the understanding of core areas, and thus the spatial requirements, of a species in a particular habitat may be limited if based on short-term studies. In this respect, our findings emphasize the importance of long-term studies of the spatial ecology of any species in a particular habitat. Our study also shows that the yearly home range basically includes all the core areas from different years, seasons, and subgroup sizes (i.e., the super-core area). This is conceptually important for territorial species, such as spider monkeys, which defend a stable home range as it contains not only the current, but also the future core areas.

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Variability in core areas of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in a tropical dry forest in Costa Rica

2011

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“…New forests are often strategically located in "forested protection zones" that have been created to provide drinking water and biodiversity corridors, and address stream corridor protection laws, and water improvement per unit forest area is likely high (Mata 2004). Biodiversity is highest in primary forest, but regenerating forests tend to have higher biodiversity than both plantations and nonforest areas (Hall et al 2012).…”

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Forest ecosystem-service transitions: the ecological dimensions of the forest transition

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ABSTRACT. New forests are expanding around the world. In many regions, regrowth rates are surpassing deforestation rates, resulting in "forest transitions," or net gains in forest cover. Typically measured only in terms of aggregate"'forest cover" change, these new forests are ecologically distinct from each other and from those originally cleared. We ask, what are the ecological attributes, goods, and services we might expect from different pathways of forest recovery? To address this question, we proposed a typology of forest transitions that reflects both their social drivers and ecological outcomes: tree plantation, spontaneous regeneration, and agroforestry transitions. Using case studies, we illustrate how the ecological outcomes of each transition type differ and change over time. We mapped the global distribution of forest-transition types to identify global epicenters of each, and found that spontaneous transitions are most common globally, especially in Latin America; agroforestry transitions predominate in Europe and Central America; and plantation transitions occur in parts of Europe and Asia. We proposed a conceptual framework to understand and compare the ecological services arising from different types of forest transitions over time: forest ecosystem-service transition curves. This framework illustrates that carbon sequestration tends to be comparatively lower in agroforestry transitions, and biodiversity recovery is lower in industrial plantations. Spontaneously regenerating forests tend to have relatively high biodiversity and biomass but provide fewer provisioning and economically valuable services. This framework captures the dynamism that we observe in forest transitions, thus illustrating that different social drivers produce different types of ecosystem-service transitions, and that as secondary forests grow, these services will change over time at rates that differ among transition types. Ultimately, this framework can guide future research, describe actual and potential changes in ecosystem services associated with different types of transitions, and promote management plans that incorporate forest cover changes with the services and benefits they provide.

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“…Ewel 1977;Brown and Lugo 1982;Murphy and Lugo 1986;Janzen 1988;Mooney et al 1995;Trejo and Dirzo 2000;Frankie et al 2004;Pennington et al 2006;PortilloQuintero and Sanchez-Azofeifa 2010;Dirzo et al 2011;Sanchez-Azofeifa et al 2005.…”

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The role of tropical dry forests for biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics: lessons learned and opportunities for its sustainable management

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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of the current regional literature associated with tropical dry forest (TDF) along three main axes: biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics. Our analysis provides three key findings: (1) from the biodiversity point of view, we document that high degrees of endemism, diversity of plant life forms and ecophysiological types as key elements for their conservation across the Americas, (2) from the carbon storage point of view, we found that if the world's TDFs were restored they whole ecosystem would comprise 22 P g of carbon in aboveground biomass. In the Americas alone, TDF restoration could potentially add 8 P g of carbon to the potential total ecosystem carbon stock, (3) we found that at least 66 % of water reservoirs in the neotropics are located within dry forest ecoregions; therefore, the conservation of the quality of freshwater sources for human consumption in the neotropics is directly dependent on the sustainable management of TDF-dominated landscapes. In this paper, we stress that advocacy for conservation and sustainable management of TDF will benefit from integrating it's value in biophysical terms (e.g. carbon, biodiversity) with key ecosystem services and uses (e.g. its impact on hydrological dynamics and its potential for fostering ecotourism initiatives and entrepreneurship). By doing this, support and awareness could be wider and more effective in the long term, especially from national and local communities.

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Biodiversity Conservation in Costa RicaLearning the Lessons in a Seasonal Dry Forest

Cited by 25 publications

References 112 publications

Variability in core areas of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in a tropical dry forest in Costa Rica

Variability in core areas of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in a tropical dry forest in Costa Rica

Forest ecosystem-service transitions: the ecological dimensions of the forest transition

The role of tropical dry forests for biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics: lessons learned and opportunities for its sustainable management

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