Climate Change or Urbanization? Impacts on a Traditional Coffee Production System in East Africa over the Last 80 Years

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jaramillo, Juliana ^a,b   Setamou, Mamoudou ^d   Muchugu, Eric ^b   Chabi Olaye, Adenirin ^b   Jaramillo, Alvaro ^c   Mukabana, Joseph ^e   Maina, Johnson ^e   Gathara, Simon ^e   Borgemeister, Christian ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c Cenicafé Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café   (Colombia)

^d Citrus Center   (United States)

^e KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGROECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COFFEE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI; INSECT; LANDSCAPE; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANTATION; URBANIZATION; ZOOLOGY;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; COFFEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLANT DISEASES; RAIN; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872323953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051815     Document Type: Article

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