Agroforestry landscapes and global change: Landscape ecology tools for management and conservation.

G MARTÍNEZ PASTUR; E ANDRIEU; LR IVERSON; PL PERI

AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

SPRINGER

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2012 vol. 85 p. 315 - 318

0167-4366

Forest ecosystems are impacted by multiple uses under the influence of global drivers, and where landscape ecology tools may substantially facilitate the management and conservation of the agroforestry ecosystems. The use of landscape ecology tools was described by the eight papers of the present special issue, including changes in forested landscapes due to agricultural and forestry activities, landscape changes due to recent intensification of agriculture and the impact of agroforestry over the natural forest ecosystems. Landscape ecology can improve the economic, environmental and social values of agroforestry, and this knowledge should help to propose new management alternatives of agroforestry. We believe that these papers will inform management at the landscape level, especially in agroforestry landscapes, offering new tools for management and conservation.