Biological research stations as central nodes in promoting North–South collaborative networks for teaching and research

Beck, P.P.; Quirós, Rodolfo; Johnson, Christopher Eric; Wasserman, Michael D.

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.06.007

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“…Host-country researchers can gain experience and confidence by conducting laboratory analyses, troubleshooting, and data processingall marketable skills that can be harnessed in other laboratories and transferred to other young researchers. Biological research stations, such as Taboga, can serve as hubs for researchers to develop collaborative networks to help facilitate in-country capacity building and encourage comparative research across sites (Beck et al, 2019). We hope that the Taboga Field Laboratory can serve as a model for future field sites with the capability to build laboratories onsite; and we look forward to future collaborative white-faced capuchin hormone studies.…”

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Using an on-site laboratory for fecal steroid analysis in wild white-faced capuchins

Beehner

Alfaro²,

Allen³

et al. 2022

General and Comparative Endocrinology

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Using an on-site laboratory for fecal steroid analysis in wild white-faced capuchins

Beehner

Alfaro²,

Allen³

et al. 2022

General and Comparative Endocrinology

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“…Thus, partners with high social capital, expansive social networks, and central positions in those networks will be crucial to facilitating conservation collaboration through their access to social-ecological information and ability to develop new relationships within and beyond local communities (Mbaru and Barnes, 2017;Jean et al, 2018;Bergsten et al, 2019). Research stations, which were central to our ability to conduct this research, meet many of these qualifications for being central partners connecting disparate conservation approaches through their connections with local communities, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, tourists, students, and researchers (Beck et al, 2019). Improving use of research stations to more effectively facilitate collaboration between different stakeholders will likely lead to improved community participation and conservation outcomes, thus building socialecological resilience.…”

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Effectiveness of Costa Rica’s Conservation Portfolio to Lower Deforestation, Protect Primates, and Increase Community Participation

Tafoya

Brondı́zio

Johnson

et al. 2020

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Common approaches to reverse the trend of tropical deforestation and loss of wildlife include systems of protected areas (PAs) such as national parks, payments for ecosystem services programs (PES) that provide financial reward to landowners protecting their forests, and ecotourism that attempts to increase local economic gains and protect biodiversity while minimizing detrimental ecological effects from tourists. For example, Costa Rica successfully reversed deforestation by restoring forest cover from 24.4% in 1985 to >50% by 2011 through implementation of national environmental protection policies in the 1990s that included a portfolio of PAs, PES, and ecotourism. However, the social-ecological effectiveness of this conservation portfolio in terms of interactions between deforestation, biodiversity, and community participation is not clear across local scales. Therefore, we conducted multitemporal geospatial analysis to determine forest cover change from 2001-2017, broad census surveys to determine primate species richness and group encounter rate, and surveyed private landowners to determine participation in PES and ecotourism across four regions of Costa Rica. Net forest loss varied seven-fold across regions and occurred in both protected and nonprotected areas across all regions from 2001-2017, although rates were lower inside PAs. Primate group encounter rate varied significantly across all regions with an 11fold difference between the region with the most primates compared to the region with the least. All but one region contained the full community of primate species present. Participation in conservation incentives also varied seven-fold across regions, with those reporting the highest participation having the highest primate density and diversity, as well as the lowest deforestation rates. These results suggest that the most effective strategy to simultaneously curb tropical deforestation, protect primates, and ensure community benefits may depend on a complete portfolio of PAs, PES, and ecotourism, rather than a subset of these strategies. Future studies will explore finer scale differences and similarities across PA, PES, and ecotourism forests, including measures of primate physiology and behavior, forest structure, and pesticide exposure.

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“…One of the earliest effective practices for land protection in Costa Rica was the National Park System (NPS), which was first implemented in 1969 and by 1996 consisted of 230 protected areas, including 32 national parks, that covered 25–28% of the nation’s land [ 8 , 9 ]. Some of these reserves are managed by nonprofit organizations as research stations, promoting international collaboration on research and education in addition to conservation [ 8 , 10 ]. The most novel of Costa Rica’s approaches is their payments for ecosystem services program (PES), or pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) [ 11 ].…”

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Primate richness and abundance is driven by both forest structure and conservation scenario in Costa Rica

Johnson,

Tafoya,

Beck

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Variation in tropical forest management directly affects biodiversity and provisioning of ecosystem services on a global scale, thus it is necessary to compare forests under different conservation approaches such as protected areas, payments for ecosystem services programs (PES), and ecotourism, as well as forests lacking any formal conservation plan. To examine the effectiveness of specific conservation approaches, we examined differences in forest structure and tree recruitment, including canopy cover; canopy height; seedling, sapling, and adult tree density; and average and total diameter at breast height (DBH) across 78 plots in 18 forests across Costa Rica representing protected areas, private forests utilizing PES and/or ecotourism, and private forests not utilizing these economic incentives. The effectiveness of conservation approaches in providing suitable primate habitat was assessed by conducting broad primate census surveys across a subset of eight forests to determine species richness and group encounter rate of three primate species: mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata), Central American spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), and the white-faced capuchin monkey (Cebus imitator). Only canopy height was significantly different across the three approaches, with protected areas conserving the tallest and likely oldest forests. Canopy height was also significantly associated with the group encounter rate for both mantled howler and spider monkeys, but not for capuchins. Total group encounter rate for all three monkey species combined was higher in incentivized forests than in protected areas, with capuchin and howler monkey group encounter rates driving the trend. Group encounter rate for spider monkeys was higher in protected areas than in incentivized forests. Incentivized conservation (PES and ecotourism) and protected areas are paragons of land management practices that can lead to variation in forest structure across a landscape, which not only protect primate communities, but support the dietary ecologies of sympatric primate species.

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Biological research stations as central nodes in promoting North–South collaborative networks for teaching and research

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Using an on-site laboratory for fecal steroid analysis in wild white-faced capuchins

Using an on-site laboratory for fecal steroid analysis in wild white-faced capuchins

Effectiveness of Costa Rica’s Conservation Portfolio to Lower Deforestation, Protect Primates, and Increase Community Participation

Primate richness and abundance is driven by both forest structure and conservation scenario in Costa Rica

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