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 …

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 …

The current crisis in the coffee market provides an opportunity to explore alternative markets.
In Latin America, coffee is traditionally produced under a diverse and dense canopy of …

We compare species richness of birds, fruit-feeding butterflies and ground-foraging ants
along a coffee intensification gradient represented by a reduction in the number of species …

Much of the remaining “forest” vegetation in eastern Chiapas, Mexico is managed for coffee
production. In this region coffee is grown under either the canopy of natural forest or under a …

Estudiamos la avifauna de plantaciones de café en sol y sombra y los hábitats asociados de
elevación media durante la temporada de seca de 1995. Los tres tipos de plantaciones …

Insectivorous birds reduce arthropod abundances and their damage to plants in some, but
not all, studies where predation by birds has been assessed. The variation in bird effects …

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 …

Experimental work has established that vertebrates can have a large impact on the
abundance of arthropods in temperate forest and grasslands, as well as on tropical islands …

Coffee is the most important tropical commodity and is grown in high-priority areas for
biological conservation. There is abundant literature on the conservation value of coffee …