Correction: Shade tree diversity, cocoa pest damage, yield compensating inputs and farmers' net returns in West Africa (PLoS ONE (2013) 8, 3 (e56115) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056115);Shade Tree Diversity, Cocoa Pest Damage, Yield Compensating Inputs and Farmers' Net Returns in West Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Daghela Bisseleua, Hervé Bertin ^a,b,c,d   Fotio, Daniel ^b   Yede, ^b   Missoup, Alain Didier ^b   Vidal, Stefan ^c  

^a MDG Centre West and Central Africa   (Senegal)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGROFORESTRY; ANT; ARTICLE; BENEFICIAL INSECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CACAO; CANOPY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FARMERS NET RETURN; HERBIVORY; INCOME; INFESTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PEST INSECT; PLANT DAMAGE; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT PEST; PLANT YIELD; PREDATION; SHADE TREE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; TREE; VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WASP; YIELD COMPENSATING INPUT;

EID: 84874763774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101901     Document Type: Erratum

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