Ecological Complexity in a Coffee Agroecosystem: Spatial Heterogeneity, Population Persistence and Biological Control

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Liere, Heidi ^a   Jackson, Doug ^b   Vandermeer, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; AZTECA INSTABILIS; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NESTING; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

AZTECA INSTABILIS; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 84866660730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045508     Document Type: Article

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