It seems intuitive that forests would provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms. Yet, in one of the longest-running studies of tropical wildlife populations in the world, Stanford researchers found that over 18 years, smaller farms with varying crop types—interspersed with patches or ribbons of forest—sustain many forest-dependent bird populations in Costa Rica, even as populations decline in forests.
, carbon storage, and many other vital benefits back into agricultural landscapes, way beyond what can be achieved in protected areas alone."
"People, including scientists, had the idea that farmland would not support a meaningful amount of biodiversity," said Daily. In this case, not only are diversified farms themselves providing habitat, they connect otherwise fragmented forested areas. "We believe the findings of our research are new to science, but in a sense, it merely confirms what Indigenous communities around the world have already known for a long time, which is that humans can and should have reciprocal relationships with the rest of the local ecological community they are part of," said Tadashi Fukami, a professor of biology in H&S and of Earth system science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a co-author of the paper.
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