Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation
of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a landscape perspective …

Coffee is one of the most important tropical crops on earth, considering both its gross
production value and the number of families that depend on it for their livelihoods. Coffee …

Despite centuries of urbanization and industrialization, around half of the world's people still
live as subsis-tence or small-scale farmers. The pro-duction of agricultural export …

Although an increasing number of studies have shown that diverse, multi-strata agroforestry
systems can contribute to the conservation of tropical biodiversity, there is still debate about …

In the core region of Brazilian cocoa production, shade cacao plantations (so-called
cabrucas) are important components of regional landscapes, constituting potential habitat …

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and
sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a …

Coffee farms can support significant biodiversity, yet intensification of farming practices is
degrading agricultural habitats and compromising ecosystem services such as biological …

As tropical forests are cleared, a greater proportion of migratory songbirds are forced to
winter in agricultural and disturbed habitats, which, if poorer in quality than natural forests …

Shifting agriculture in the tropics has been replaced by sedentary smallholder farming on a
few hectares of degraded land. To address low yields and low income both, the soil fertility …

Interest in the ecology and conservation of birds in coffee plantations around the world has
greatly increased since the early 1990s, especially in the Neotropical region. Much of the …