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What is the State of Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Restoration?

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Forestry Project for the Basin of the Chinchiná River, an Environmental and Productive Alternative for the City and the Region

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Maya Nut Reforestation

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Maya Nut is an NGO that seeks to find balance between people, forests, and food. While they do not run a reforestation program directly, they do work closely with communities to reforest degraded lands throughout Latin America. The mission of the program is to conserve the Maya nut tree, Brosimum alicastrum, by planting trees and teaching rural and indigenous women to harvest and process the seed for food and income.

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Farmer’s Perceptions of Silvopastoral System Promotion in Quindío, Colombia

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Evaluation of Andean Alder as a Catalyst for the Recovery of Tropical Cloud Forests in Colombia

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This study compares the species composition and structural diversity of 30-year-old alder plantations with adjacent, naturally regenerated forests of the same age. The study seeks to determine if alder plantations are an appropriate catalyst for forest regeneration for conserving biological diversity and to determine if the differences between the two forest types are maintained over time.

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Payments for Environmental Services in Latin America as a Tool for Restoration and Rural Development

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Reasons for reforestation success and failure with three mangrove species in Colombia

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This study examines the mortality and growth rates of the propagules, seedlings and saplings of three native mangrove species (A. germinans, L. racemosa, and R. mangle) in order to determine the ecological factors that influence tree growth and survival in deforested mangroves with restored hydrologic conditions on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

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Native Trees and Shrubs for the Productive Rehabilitation of Tropical Cattleranching Lands

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The authors of this study examined strategies to improve cattle ranching in Colombia and Mexico through the use of intensive silvopastoral systems. Silvopastoral systems transform extensive cattle ranching with intensively managed systems with high densities of trees and shrubs to improve yields and environmental impacts.

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Barriers to Lowland Tropical Forest Restoration in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

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This article examines the major barriers to forest restoration in the abandoned pastureland surrounding three forest fragments  in the Rio Rancheria watershed of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. These barriers include: seed source, seed predation, competition from grasses, microclimate, soil quality, and fire.

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Cattle and Weedy Shrubs as Restoration Tools of Tropical Montane Rainforest

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In abandoned Latin American pastures, grasses often inhibit the establishment of woody species. This study tests the effect of cattle grazing on woody and herbaceous vegetation establishment in pastures of P. clandestinum and M. minutiflora.

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Sistemas silvopastoriles como una herramienta para el mejoramiento de la productividad y restauración de la integridad ecológica de paisajes ganaderos

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Produção De Leite Com Sistemas Silvipastoris Intensivos (Milk Production with Intensive Silvopastoral Systems)

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Una innovación tecnológica para la siembra de árboles en las sabanas inundables de la orinoquia: montículos o silvotermiteros (A technological innovation to plant trees in flooded savannas in Orinoco basin)

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Characterization of Andean forest edges and implications for ecological restoration in Cogua Forest Reserve, Colombia (Caracterización de bordes de bosque altoandino e implicaciones para la restauración ecológica en la Reserva Forestal de Cogua, Colombia)

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La capacidad regenerativa de los bosques fragmentados es determinada por las características particulares del parche, así como de la zonas de borde. Conocer esta información es crucial para la implementación de iniciativas de restauración, en este del Bosque Altoandino de Colombia.

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Propagación y diagnóstico de regeneración natural de algunas especies maderables empeladas por la comunidad indígena de Mocagua

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Directrices de restauración ecológica en cuencas hidrográficas andinas: “Plan de manejo ambiental de la cuenca hidrográfica La Floresta – La Novita” (Guidelines for ecological restoration in Andean watersheds)

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El estudio forma parte del proyecto que tiene por objetivo la realización de un Plan de Manejo Ambiental de la Cuenca Hidrográfica La Floresta – La Novita para prevenir y controlar el proceso erosivo actual y recuperar el equilibrio ecológico de los ecosistemas nativos.

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Propuesta metodológica para seleccionar especies pioneras leñosas con fines de restauración ecológica, dentro de la reserva biológica cachalú (Encino-Santander) (Methodology for selecting woody pioneer species for ecological restoration)

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Restauración ecológica en una cuenca de la zona andina, un esfuerzo colectivo para el mantenimiento de los servicios ecosistémicos (Ecological restoration in a watershed of the Andes)

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Caracterización del conocimiento local del componente arbóreo en fincas ganaderas (Characterization of the local knowledge of the tree component in cattle farms)

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La producción ganadera es una de las principales económicas en la Municipalidad de Pupiales en Colombia, donde participan alrededor de 950 productores. La información relacionada a los sistemas de producción no ha sido sistematizada con frecuencia, sin embargo es de gran importancia para los procesos de investigación y de toma de decisiones.

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Evaluación de la regeneracion de Acacia decurrens, Acacia melanoxylon y Ulex europaeus en áreas en proceso de restauración ecológica (Regeneration study of different Acacia species)

Esta investigación busca establecer la dinámica de regeneración de Acacia decurrens, Acacia melanoxylon y Ulex europaeus dentro del proceso de restauración ecológica adelantado en el Parque Nacional Enrique Olaya Herrera, por el Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis, Bogotá, Colombia.

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