Biodiversity Conservation in Agroecosystems: A Comparison of Surface-dwelling Beetle Diversity in Various Shade Coffee Production Systems in Costa Rica

dc.contributor.author	Hall, Susan
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-05T03:09:40Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-05T03:09:40Z
dc.date.issued	2001
dc.identifier.citation	FES Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1702-3548
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/18103
dc.description.abstract	Beetle diversity was determined in six coffee agroecosystems representing a spectrum of structural complexity including (in increasing order) a chemical free site without shade, Poró (Erythrina poeppigiana), Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta), Amarillón (Terminalia amazonia), Banana (Musa spp.), and a control site at Los Cusingos Neotropical Bird Sanctuary. At each site beetles were collected using pitfall traps while leaf litter quantities and soil properties were recorded. Beetles were not related to structural complexity per se but were more strongly affected by soil and leaf litter characteristics. They showed relatively strong co-relations to increased leaf litter, increased soil fertility and decreased soil compaction.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Vol. 7;No. 2
dc.title	Biodiversity Conservation in Agroecosystems: A Comparison of Surface-dwelling Beetle Diversity in Various Shade Coffee Production Systems in Costa Rica	en_US
dc.type	Other	en_US
dc.rights.publisher	http://www.yorku.ca/fes/research/students/outstanding/index.htm	en_US