Coffee agroecosystems have become iconic in the study of how agriculture can contribute to
the conservation of biodiversity and how biodiversity can deliver ecosystem services to …

Continuous pesticide usage has negative impacts on people and ecosystems associated
with coffee farms. Alternative plant protection strategies can be implemented that are …

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 …

Agroforestry systems can provide habitats for a rich biodiversity including multitrophic
interactions, which presents opportunities to develop natural pest control. Shade coffee …

This text reflects the immense current growth in interest in agroecology and changing
approaches to it. While it is acknowledged that the science of ecology should be the basis of …

Whether an ecological community is controlled from above or below remains a popular
framework that continues generating interesting research questions and takes on especially …

Ecological principles are frequently leveraged when considering the control of animal pests
of crops. Still, pathogens have not generated similar research despite the current interest in …

Here, we compare the fungal community composition and diversity in Amazonian Dark Earth
(ADE) and the respective non-anthropogenic origin adjacent (ADJ) soils from four different …

Ecological systems, as is often noted, are complex. Equally notable is the generalization that
complex systems tend to be oscillatory, whether Huygens' simple patterns of pendulum …

Small-scale coffee farmers understand certain complex ecological processes, and
successfully navigate some of the challenges emerging from the ecological complexity on …