Brewing trouble: Coffee invasion in relation to edges and forest structure in tropical rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats, India

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2387-2400

  Joshi, Atul Arvind ^a,b   Mudappa, Divya ^a   Raman, T R Shankar ^a  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anamalai hills; Coffea arabica; Coffea canephora; Fragmentation; Invasive alien species; Plantations; Shade tolerance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COFFEE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LINE TRANSECT; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION; PROPAGULE; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SHADE TOLERANCE; STEM;

ANAIMALAI HILLS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; WESTERN GHATS;

ANIMALIA; COFFEA ARABICA; COFFEA CANEPHORA;

EID: 70350705017     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9423-6     Document Type: Article

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