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Open‐land‐derived agroforestry and effects of abandonment of management of the main crop on ecosystem services and woody plant diversity

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Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi, Kristoffer Hylander, Thiago S. de Melo, Ayco J. M. Tack   +3 more
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

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Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
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Climate requirements for cultivated Liberica coffee (Coffea liberica) and consequences for its use and development as a crop species

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The global coffee industry, supporting 25 million smallholder farmers, is vulnerable to climate change. Diversifying the coffee species portfolio beyond Arabica and robusta is a promising intervention. Liberica coffee could provide adaptive capacity, although its climate parameters for cultivation are poorly known.
Isobel M. J. Wild, Aaron P. Davis, Kenny Wee Ting Lee, Justin Moat   +3 more
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Effects of native and non-native shade trees on insect predation pressure on Kenyan coffee farms

Frontiers in Conservation Science
IntroductionAgroecosystem practices that aim to increase biodiversity and ecosystem services have the potential to benefit both wildlife and farmers. Shade-coffee systems are well-studied in the Neotropics, but less is known about the relationships among
Ximena Oviedo Moura, Julie A. Jedlicka, Samuel Lopes Oliveira, Matthew D. Johnson   +3 more
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Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

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Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
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Polymorphic information content of SSR markers for Coffea spp.

Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2010
Thirty-three coffee SSR primers from enriched genomic library with (GT)15 and (AGG)10 repeats were analyzed in 24 coffee tree accessions. Twenty-two primers were polymorphic among accessions; the number of alleles ranged from 2 to 13, with the mean ...
Robson Fernando Missio, Eveline Teixera Caixeta, Eunize Maciel Zambolim, Laércio Zambolim, Cosme Damião Cruz, Ney Sussumu Sakiyama   +5 more
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Growth and Productivity of Coffea arabica var. Esperanza L4A5 in Different Agroforestry Systems in the Caribbean Region of Costa Rica

Agriculture
This study focused on evaluating the growth and productivity of Coffea arabica var. Esperanza L4A5 in different agroforestry systems in the Caribbean region of Costa Rica, a non-traditional area for coffee cultivation due to its low altitude and ...
Victor Hugo Morales Peña, Argenis Mora Garcés, Elias De Melo Virginio Filho, Mario Villatoro Sánchez   +3 more
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Carbon assessment for Robusta coffee systems across an intensification gradient [PDF]

, 2019
The objective of this study was to compare the carbon trade-offs of different coffee systems via quantification of carbon stock and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Läderach, Peter, Nguyen, N., Ortiz, D., Tiffany, T., Vaast, Philippe   +4 more
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Leaf heat tolerance in a native Californian shrub responds in expected and unexpected ways to differences in range, season, and sunlight exposure

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Earth's ecosystems are experiencing wide‐ranging impacts from global climate change, including increased average and extreme temperatures. These temperature shifts can drastically affect plant physiology, threatening the future of even common plant species. Here, we focus on photosynthetic function in a native Southern California shrub species.
Anna K. M. Bowen, Helen Holmlund, Anna L. Jacobsen, R. Brandon Pratt, Christine Scoffoni, Ishan Ashford, Olivia Plumb, Casey Wisely, Gretchen North   +8 more
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Three-Dimensional Scanning and Computational Simulation of Coffee Tree Branches

Agriculture
Coffee has significant economic importance in Brazil, which is the world’s largest exporter of this product. The main focus of this work is to obtain a computational model of coffee branches, using scanning techniques and experimental validation through ...
Davidson S. e Silva, Ricardo R. Magalhães, Fabio L. Santos, Mariana de Rezende Bonesio, Sandro P. da Silva   +4 more
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