Shade coffee: Update on a disappearing refuge for biodiversity

BioScience

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 416-428

  Jha, Shalene ^a   Bacon, Christopher M ^b   Philpott, Stacy M ^c   MÉndez, V Ernesto ^d   LÄderach, Peter ^e   Rice, Robert A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)   (Nicaragua)

^f SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; agroforestry; corridor; ecosystem services; tropical ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900414537     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu038     Document Type: Review

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