Land use change on coffee farms in southern guatemala and its environmental consequences

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 811-823

  Haggar, Jeremy ^a   Medina, Byron ^b   Aguilar, Rosa Maria ^b   Munoz, Claudia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b ANACAFE   (Guatemala)

^c CATIE   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

Agroforest; Biodiversity; Carbon stocks; Inga; Sun coffee

Indexed keywords

ABOVE-GROUND CARBONS; AGROFOREST; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CARBON STOCKS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; INGA; NATIVE FOREST SPECIES;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CONSERVATION; LAND USE; PRODUCTIVITY; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; COFFEE; COMMODITY PRICE; CROP PRODUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANTATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPLAND; CROPPING SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GUATEMALA; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT;

AGRICULTURE; COFFEE; GUATEMALA;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; LAND USE; PLANTATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; RUBBER;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

AVES; INGA;

EID: 84877876336     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0019-7     Document Type: Article

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