To truly understand the current status of tropical diversity and to forecast future trends, we
need to increase emphasis on the study of biodiversity in rural landscapes that are actively …

Strong feedback between global biodiversity loss and persistent, extreme rural poverty are
major challenges in the face of concurrent food, energy, and environmental crises. This paper …

In coming years society will be forced to adapt to lower energy levels due to projected declines
in non-renewable energies. This will increase the challenge to ecological engineers to …

The major challenge in tropical land management is to meet the ever-growing demand for
agricultural products while conserving biodiversity, providing critical ecosys tem services, and …

Agroecology as a transformative movement has gained momentum in many countries
worldwide. In several cases, the implementation of agroecological practices has grown beyond …

This paper analyzes how peasant movements scale up agroecology. It specifically examines
Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), a grassroots peasant agroecology movement in …

Effective innate immunity against many microbial pathogens requires macrophage programs
that upregulate phagocytosis and direct antimicrobial pathways, two functions generally …

… the barbed-wire fence and spread the seeds evenly throughout the site ( Ferguson 2001b
). … growth in the rest of the field ( Ferguson 2001a ). Approximately half of one sampling plot, …

The dominant feature in the acoustic spectrum of a propeller‐driven aircraft is the spectral
line corresponding to the propeller blade rate that is equal to the product of the propeller shaft …

Conventional cattle ranching in the lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico typically employs extensive
grazing, annual pasture burns and frequent applications of agrochemicals, threatening …