Coffee landscapes as refugia for native woody biodiversity as forest loss continues in southwest Ethiopia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 169, Issue , 2014, Pages 384-391

  Tadesse, Getachew ^a   Zavaleta, Erika ^a   Shennan, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Deforestation; Regeneration; Shade coffee; Woody species diversity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; CULTIVATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; REFUGIUM; REGENERATION; SMALLHOLDER; WOODY PLANT;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84892646266     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.11.034     Document Type: Article

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