The conservation value of cacao agroforestry for bird functional diversity in tropical agricultural landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Cacao agroforestry have been considered as biodiversity-friendly farming practices by maintaining habitats for a high diversity of species in tropical landscapes. However, little information is available to evaluate whether this agrosystem can maintain functional diversity, given that agricultural changes can affect the functional components, but not the taxonomic one (e.g., species richness). Thus, considering functional traits improve the understanding of the agricultural impacts on biodiversity. Here, we measured functional diversity (functional richness-FD, functional evenness-FEve, and functional divergence-Rao) and taxonomic diversity (species richness and Simpson index) to evaluate changes of bird diversity in cacao agroforestry in comparison with nearby mature forests (old-growth f

SUBMITTER: Rocha J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662317 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature