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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

A social–ecological perspective on harmonizing food security and biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

Academic leaders must support inclusive scientific communities during COVID-19

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Agroforests as model systems for tropical ecology

scientific article published in April 2008

An aggressive nonconsumptive effect mediates pest control and multipredator interactions in a coffee agroecosystem

scientific article published in 2022

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 agriculture requires a multi-scale approach

scientific article published in September 2014

Biodiversity conservation in tropical agroecosystems: a new conservation paradigm

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Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees

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Bird and bat predation services in tropical forests and agroforestry landscapes

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Brewing biodiversity

scientific article published in 2008

Cascading trait-mediated interactions induced by ant pheromones

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Changes in adult sex ratio in wild bee communities are linked to urbanization

Changes in species diversity of arboreal spiders in Mexican coffee agroecosystems: untangling the web of local and landscape influences driving diversity

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Cheating on a mutualism: indirect benefits of ant attendance to a coccidophagous coccinellid

scientific article published in February 2008

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

Cuban science democratic and not tied to profit

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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

Effect of Sub-Canopy on Habitat Selection in the Blue-spotted Salamander (Ambystoma laterale-jeffersonianum unisexual complex)

scientific article published on 3 July 2013

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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Ensemble Composition and Activity Levels of Insectivorous Bats in Response to Management Intensification in Coffee Agroforestry Systems

scientific article published on January 26, 2011

Evaluating community effects of a Keystone Ant, <i>Azteca sericeasur,</i> on <i>Inga micheliana</i> leaf litter decomposition in a shaded coffee agro‐ecosystem

scientific article published in 2020

Floral resource availability from groundcover promotes bee abundance in coffee agroecosystems

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

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Foraging behavior as a determinant of asymmetric competitive interaction between two ant species in a tropical agroecosystem

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ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

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From endogenous to exogenous pattern formation: Invasive plant species changes the spatial distribution of a native ant.

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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

Impacts of major predators on tropical agroforest arthropods: comparisons within and across taxa

scientific article published on 17 April 2004

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

scientific article published on 12 January 2020

Integrating agroecological production in a robust post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Invasion Adaptation: A Socio-ecological Assessment of Cherry Growers’ Adaptation Potential to Spotted Wing Drosophila

scientific article published in 2022

Local Management and Landscape Use Intensity Associated with a Coffee Leaf-Chewing Beetle

scholarly article published 19 March 2014

Local and Landscape Constraints on Coffee Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Diversity

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

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Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review

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Mutualisms and population regulation: mechanism matters

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Organic agriculture and the global food supply

scientific article from 2007

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

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REVIEW: Do polycultures promote win-wins or trade-offs in agricultural ecosystem services? A meta-analysis

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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

Response of ground spiders to local and landscape factors in a Mexican coffee landscape

article by Linda Marín et al published April 2016 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Seasonal shift in the foraging niche of a tropical avian resident: resource competition at work?

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Shade Coffee: A Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity

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Simplification of a coffee foliage-dwelling beetle community under low-shade management

article by Caleb E. Gordon et al published May 2009 in Basic and Applied Ecology

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

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

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Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Spider Diversity in Coffee Agroecosystems: The Influence of Agricultural Intensification and Aggressive Ants

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

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

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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 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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The role of the agricultural matrix: coffee management and euglossine bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) communities in southern Mexico.

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

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Trait-Mediated Indirect Effects of Phorid Flies on Ants

article published in 2012

Who gives a flux? Synchronous flowering of Coffea arabica accelerates leaf litter decomposition

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Wildlife-friendly farming vs land sparing

scientific article published in 2009