Biodiversity conservation, ecosystem functioning, and economic incentives under cocoa agroforestry intensification

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1176-1184

  Bisseleua, D H B ^a,b   Missoup, A D ^b   Vidal, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Agricultural economics; Agroforestry management; Ants; Cocoa certification program; Cocoa plantations; Land use management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGROFORESTRY; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; COCOA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; INCENTIVE; LAND MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION; PROFITABILITY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; MOTIVATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MOTIVATION;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

FORMICIDAE; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 70349194597     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01220.x     Document Type: Article

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