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 …

Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between
agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely …

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the
conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the …

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 …

The haphazard and unwarranted use of chemical fertilizers has disturbed the soil microflora
and groundwater by rendering them highly contaminated and reduced its agricultural …

Species' functional traits are an important part of the ecological complexity that determines
the provisioning of ecosystem services. In biological pest control, predator response to pest …

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

Agricultural ecosystems are, by their very nature, a cauldron of novel ecosystems, emerging
with exotic species at the core of their very existence and followed by invasions of other …

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 …

Seeking to employ ecological principles in agricultural management, a classical ecological
debate provides a useful framing. Whether ecosystems are controlled from above (predators …