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Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Soil Diversity and Functioning

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Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

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Knowledge of biodiversity is key to sustainable management. For tropical dry forests, information on soil animal diversity is sparse compared with tropical wet forests, and considerably less than for grasslands and deserts. Nevertheless, given the rapid transformation of dry tropical forests, primarily due to land use change (Janzen 1988a), it is important to examine the uniqueness of its faunal diversity and functioning as well as its vulnerability to increasing rates of global changes (Sala et al. 2000).

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  1. School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

    Diana H. Wall

  2. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Puerto Rico, USA

    Grizelle González

  3. Biology, East Georgia College, USA

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Wall, D.H., González, G., Simmons, B.L. (2011). Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Soil Diversity and Functioning. In: Dirzo, R., Young, H.S., Mooney, H.A., Ceballos, G. (eds) Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-021-7_4

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