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Effects of Erythrina poeppigiana pruning residues on soil organic matter in organic coffee plantations
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Wales, Bangor (RU). School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, 2005)
The effects of Erythrina poeppigiana pruning residue effects on soil organic matter were investigated with three different objectives. Firstly, to study the effects of proximity of this shade tree on soil characteristics ...
Distribution and foraging by the leaf-cutting ant, Atta cephalotes L., in coffee plantations with different types of management and landscape contexts, and alternatives to insecticides for its control
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Universidad de Idaho, ID (EUA), 2006)
Atta cephalotes L., the predominant leaf-cutting ant species found in coffee farMON in the Turrialba region of Costa Rica, is considered a pest of the crop because it removes coffee foliage. I applied agroecosystem and ...
Local knowledge regarding trade-offs among coffee productivity and other ecosystem services in a range of different agroforestry systems in Central America
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
This thesis gathers and analyses the local knowledge regarding ecosystem services in coffee producing regions of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua, and compares this knowledge across a range of farming conditions. The ...
The effects of local and landscape context on leafhopper (Hemiptera: cicadellinae) communities in coffeee agroforestry system of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2008-05)
This study examined the effects of local (shade composition, organic or conventional management, and weed management) and landscape (surrounding land uses) context on sharpshooter communities in coffee agroforestry systeMON ...