Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem
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Ecological Complexity in a Coffee Agroecosystem: Spatial Heterogeneity, Population Persistence and Biological Control
BACKGROUND Spatial heterogeneity is essential for the persistence of many inherently unstable systems such as predator-prey and parasitoid-host interactions. Since biological interactions themselves can create heterogeneity in space, the heterogeneity necessary for the persistence of an unstable system could be the result of local interactions involving elements of the unstable system itself. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1543-592X,1545-2069
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091923