Shade coffee: A disappearing refuge for biodiversity: Shade coffee plantations can contain as much biodiversity as forest habitats

BioScience

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 598-608

  Perfecto, Ivette ^a   Rice, Robert A ^b   Greenberg, Russell ^b   Van Der Voort, Martha E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0029823406     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1312989     Document Type: Article

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