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Coffee Agroecosystems: A Conservation Agreement-Based Approach to Protecting Biodiversity in San Martín, Peru
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In the Alto Mayo Protection Forest (AMPF) of San Martín, Peru, unsustainable farming practices in coffee agroecosystems are the main drivers of deforestation and habitat loss. Previous studies indicate that across Latin American coffee farms, using shade-grown coffee result in higher biodiversity on the farms with a larger abundance of floral and faunal species. In AMPF, conservation agreements have been implemented between cultivators and Conservation International to ameliorate the environmental damages incurred by poor farming practices, as well as to increase cultivator livelihoods. To measure the effectiveness of these agreements, we compared camera trap data to drone-captured shade cover data to find the correlation between higher shade cover and biodiversity among subscriber plots. While our results showed no interrelationship between shade cover and species abundance or richness, this study was a small subset of the larger study, representing only 15% of the total subscriber plots and 24% of the overall sectors. Therefore, we predict that the results of the larger study will be more conclusive and will better indicate the predicted positive relationship between biodiversity and agroecology in AMPF.
Date Created
2019-05
Contributors
- Delaune, Celeste Rose (Author)
- Gerber, Leah (Thesis director)
- Ahumada, Jorge (Committee member)
- Summers, Percy (Committee member)
- School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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19 pages
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2018-2019
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53079
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minimal
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- 2019-04-25 12:01:06
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 2 years 8 months ago
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