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Show 15 in significant mountain or the reducing agriculture and grazing the sierran of large land the country, small in region of ar-eas in farm off by, burning The naties further complication is the the hill' th extensive far on cove r Lng vege"tati-Qn. cover 'of of uch the slopes In conditions. Extensive the country. imposed by the origina.1 paucity due to soil in many areas vgetatin in plots and they' frequntly' clear grazing has further reduced the natural A is in Honduras comp-licating the floo(ling Further insects aquatic that country. of streams of populations of covering the oak and pine forests of the mountains of Honduras there is litle limstone and the mesas are is Runoff a commdn1y raid, that Man's destruction pecia11y adds so layer of calcareous c1ay,nd pebbles. plus original the slopes, on greatly a small percentage of 1eteriou effedtts being deposited It would on s aem on to the, in cover the' some the rain actin as watr and hs furthe,r de- an abraslv iI"\ rain to ,be fall the author more the animal tdard9 't.hen, that these intense stream the keeps case ected. of populations begin increasing the end of, the rainy season, I with f1uc- stream the decrease when stream flow t end s , tale. The belief tha t or organisms and their potential food sources9 tuations, plus i1tation of streams adversely affect and reduce populations. es- areas; of rate runff streams which the stream inhabitants the to lack of increases great del of silt and mud a only retained (Shelford 1963). is fll ofterl covered with (Macan and Mackereth, insect numbers low in Honduran streams, Furthermore, as the evidence 1957) that streams very few does not it might seem predators or be predation applicable, prey were in co11- presented above readily supports |
