Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer

Coffee Agroecology

A New Approach to Understanding Agricultural Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 sustainable agricultural ecosystem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415826808
• ISBN-10: 0415826802
• Artikelnr.: 40337452

Autorenporträt

Ivette Perfecto is George W. Pack Professor of Ecology, Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, USA. John Vandermeer is Asa Grey Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Alfred T. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (or a Tale of Two Farms) 2. A Biodiverse
Cup of Coffee: Coffee Agroforests as Repositories of Tropical Biodiversity
3. The Coffee Agroecosystem as a High-Quality Matrix 4. Space Matters:
Large Scale Spatial Ecology within the Coffee Agroecosystem 5. Who's Eating
Whom and How: Trophic and Trait-mediated Cascades in the Coffee
Agroecosystem 6. Interactions across Spatial Scales 7. Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services 8. Coffee, the Agroecological Landscape, and Farmer's
Livelihoods 9. Syndromes of Coffee Production: Embracing Sustainability