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List of works by John Vandermeer

A Keystone Ant Species Provides Robust Biological Control of the Coffee Berry Borer Under Varying Pest Densities.

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A Theory of Disturbance and Species Diversity: Evidence from Nicaragua After Hurricane Joan

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A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function

scientific article published in February 2006

Anolis lizards as biocontrol agents in mainland and island agroecosystems

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Ant Assemblage on a Coffee Farm: Spatial Mosaic Versus Shifting Patchwork

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Ants (Azteca sp.) as potential biological control agents in shade coffee production in Chiapas, Mexico

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Ants defend coffee from berry borer colonization

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Bats limit insects in a neotropical agroforestry system

scientific article published in April 2008

Behavioral Diversity of Predatory Arboreal Ants in Coffee Agroecosystems

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Behavioral diversity of predatory arboreal ants in coffee agroecosystems

scientific article published on February 2008

Biodiversity conservation in tropical agroecosystems: a new conservation paradigm

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Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem

scientific article published on January 2008

Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem

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Complex Traditions: Intersecting Theoretical Frameworks in Agroecological Research

Conservation: Limits of Land Sparing

scientific article published in Science

Discovery Dominance Tradeoff: the Case ofPheidole SubarmataandSolenopsis Geminata(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Neotropical Pastures

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Disentangling endogenous versus exogenous pattern formation in spatial ecology: a case study of the ant Azteca sericeasur in southern Mexico

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Ecological Complexity and Pest Control in Organic Coffee Production: Uncovering an Autonomous Ecosystem Service

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Ecological complexity and agroecosystems: seven themes from theory

Ecological complexity in a coffee agroecosystem: spatial heterogeneity, population persistence and biological control

scientific article published in 2012

Effect of coffee agriculture management on the population structure of a forest dwelling rodent (Heteromys desmarestianus goldmani).

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Effects of Management Intensity and Season on Arboreal Ant Diversity and Abundance in Coffee Agroecosystems

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Effects of predatory ants on lower trophic levels across a gradient of coffee management complexity

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Emissions from cattle farming in Brazil

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Endogenous spatial pattern formation from two intersecting ecological mechanisms: the dynamic coexistence of two noxious invasive ant species in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Enigmatic biodiversity correlations: ant diversity responds to diverse resources

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Food sovereignty: an alternative paradigm for poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation in Latin America

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From insinuator to dominator: Foraging switching by an exotic ant

scientific article published in 2017

Global change and multi-species agroecosystems: Concepts and issues

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Growth and development of the thinning canopy in a post-hurricane tropical rain forest in Nicaragua

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Hurricane disturbance and tropical tree species diversity

scientific article published on October 2000

Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and its interactions with Azteca instabilis and Pheidole synanthropica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a shade coffee agroecosystem

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Hysteresis and critical transitions in a coffee agroecosystem

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Identification of Putative Coffee Rust Mycoparasites via Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing of Infected Pustules

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Impact of Regionally Distinct Agroecosystem Communities on the Potential for Autonomous Control of the Coffee Leaf Rust

scientific article published on 15 October 2016

Insights from excrement: invasive gastropods shift diet to consume the coffee leaf rust and its mycoparasite

scientific article published on 12 January 2020

Microclimatic changes and the indirect loss of ant diversity in a tropical agroecosystem

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Mutualisms and population regulation: mechanism matters

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Parasitoid wasps benefit from shade tree size and landscape complexity in Mexican coffee agroecosystems

Population responses to environmental change in a tropical ant: the interaction of spatial and temporal dynamics

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Post-Agricultural Succession in El Peten, Guatemala

Resistance and resilience in a directly regenerating rainforest: Nicaraguan trees of the Vochysiaceae after Hurricane Joan

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Response of Coffee Farms to Hurricane Maria: Resistance and Resilience from an Extreme Climatic Event

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Scale and strength oak-mesophyte interactions in a transitional oak-hickory forest.

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Spatial pattern and ecological process in the coffee agroforestry system

scientific article published on April 2008

Spatial scale and density dependence in a host parasitoid system: an arboreal ant, Azteca instabilis, and its Pseudacteon phorid parasitoid

scientific article published in June 2009

Spatiotemporal Foraging Dynamics of <i>Solenopsis invicta</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and its Potential Effects on the Spatial Structure of Interspecific Competition

scientific article published in 2022

Species complementarity in two myrmecophilous lady beetle species in a coffee agroecosystem: implications for biological control

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Stage-dependent responses to emergent habitat heterogeneity: consequences for a predatory insect population in a coffee agroecosystem

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Stage‐structured ontogeny in resource populations generates non‐additive stabilizing and de‐stabilizing forces in populations and communities

scientific article published in 2021

Structural constraints on novel ecosystems in agriculture: The rapid emergence of stereotypic modules

scholarly article by Ivette Perfecto published in December 2015

Taking trophic cascades up a level: behaviorally-modified effects of phorid flies on ants and ant prey in coffee agroecosystems

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The Big Rust and the Red Queen: Long-Term Perspectives on Coffee Rust Research

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The agricultural matrix and a future paradigm for conservation

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The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model

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The assembly and importance of a novel ecosystem: The ant community of coffee farms in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

The future of farming and conservation

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To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies

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Weak chaos, Allee points, and intermittency emerging from niche construction in population models

scientific article published in 2019

Wildlife-friendly farming vs land sparing

scientific article published in 2009