Forest bolsters bird abundance, pest control and coffee yield

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1339-1347

  Karp, Daniel S ^a   Mendenhall, Chase D ^a   Sandí, Randi Figueroa ^b   Chaumont, Nicolas ^a   Ehrlich, Paul R ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a   Daily, Gretchen C ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Copal de Agua Buena ^*  (Costa Rica)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agro forestry; Bat; Bird; Conservation biological control; Countryside biogeography; Ecosystem services; Landscape complexity; Natural enemies; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI;

AGRICULTURE; AGRO-FORESTRY; ANIMAL; BAT; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIRD; COFFEE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COSTA RICA; COUNTRYSIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LANDSCAPE COMPLEXITY; LETTER; MALE; NATURAL ENEMIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

AGRICULTURE; AGRO-FORESTRY; BAT; BIRD; CONSERVATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COUNTRYSIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LANDSCAPE COMPLEXITY; NATURAL ENEMIES; TROPICAL FOREST;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIRDS; COFFEA; COSTA RICA; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

EID: 84885947609     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12173     Document Type: Article

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