The Tropical Biodiversity Research Group is proud to announce the publication of a new study on Botanical diversity, structure and composition in cocoa agroforest systems (CAFS) in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. The paper, elaborated by researchers from the team together with colleagues from the University Rafael Landívar in Guatemala and CATIE in Costa Rica, investigates the tree species richness and its contribution to the conservation of diversity in CAFS of different ages in the region. After an inventory of 70 agroforestry plots, an impressive total of 2519 trees belonging to 59 species and 34 families were identified.
Read about the detailed results and their implications for the local cocoa producers as well as for the ecosystems in the journal Scientia Agropecuaria.
