CATIE - The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center - Costa Rica

The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) is a regional center dedicated to research and graduate education in agriculture, and the management, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. The CATIE headquarters are surrounded with hundreds of hectares of diverse agricultural landscapes, including pasture, sugar cane, coffee, primary and secondary forest and areas under reforestation. Among these, two sites have been selected for participation in the Teacomposition project. The "Los Paveles" forest (Salcedo, 1986) site consists of a relic of primary slope and terrace forest and secondary terrace forest. The terrace forest is an edaphic association on inceptisols. It has 60 spp.\ and 205 ...