A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as … services of forest ecosystems will prove sufficient to motivate their conservation on a large scale. Other instruments for … conservation must, then, be employed if areas under intense pressure for conversion are to be preserved. …

species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …