Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation

Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation

Tesis (Doctorado) -- CATIE. Escuela de Posgrado, Turrialba (Costa Rica), University of Idaho, 2007

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schedlbauer, Jessica L.
Other Authors: Kavanagh, Kathleen
Format: Tesis
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) 2014
Subjects:
BOSQUES
BOSQUE SECUNDARIO
ECOSISTEMA
TIERRAS DE PASTOS
USO DEL AGUA
ISOTOPOS
CONSERVACION DE LOS RECURSOS
LEGISLACION
COSTA RICA
Online Access:https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5149
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spelling RepoCATIE51492023-08-15T16:27:37Z Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation Schedlbauer, Jessica L. Kavanagh, Kathleen Finegan, Bryan, Ph.D BOSQUES BOSQUE SECUNDARIO ECOSISTEMA TIERRAS DE PASTOS USO DEL AGUA ISOTOPOS CONSERVACION DE LOS RECURSOS LEGISLACION COSTA RICA Tesis (Doctorado) -- CATIE. Escuela de Posgrado, Turrialba (Costa Rica), University of Idaho, 2007 Forest structure was examined at 20+ year old forest-pasture edges to assess edge effects. Stem density was significantly higher at forest edges than interiors due to an increase in small diameter trees close to edges. These data show that forest edges seal with dense vegetation in the 20+ years following edge creation, suggesting that edges are robust and likely to promote high-value environmental services in these forests.Measures of water-use efficiency (WUE) and stable carbon isotopes were used to evaluate changes in forest function at edges. Forest recruitment and carbon dynamics were examined in a chronosequence of secondary forest.To evaluate Costa Rica's 1996 Forestry Law initiating environmental service payments (pago por servicios ambientales, PSA) and prohibiting deforestation, landcover data were used to compare forest change before and after 1996. As result, secondary forests will persist as minor landscape components without incentives. 2014-10-20T05:05:39Z 2014-10-20T05:05:39Z 2007 Tesis de doctorado https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5149 Turrialba (Costa Rica) en info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica)
institution Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
collection Repositorio CATIE
language Inglés
topic BOSQUES
BOSQUE SECUNDARIO
ECOSISTEMA
TIERRAS DE PASTOS
USO DEL AGUA
ISOTOPOS
CONSERVACION DE LOS RECURSOS
LEGISLACION
COSTA RICA
spellingShingle BOSQUES
BOSQUE SECUNDARIO
ECOSISTEMA
TIERRAS DE PASTOS
USO DEL AGUA
ISOTOPOS
CONSERVACION DE LOS RECURSOS
LEGISLACION
COSTA RICA
Schedlbauer, Jessica L.
Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
description Tesis (Doctorado) -- CATIE. Escuela de Posgrado, Turrialba (Costa Rica), University of Idaho, 2007
author2 Kavanagh, Kathleen
author_facet Kavanagh, Kathleen
Schedlbauer, Jessica L.
format Tesis
author Schedlbauer, Jessica L.
author_sort Schedlbauer, Jessica L.
title Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
title_short Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
title_full Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
title_fullStr Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
title_full_unstemmed Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation
title_sort forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern costa rica: implications for conservation
publisher University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica)
publishDate 2014
url https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5149
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