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Floral diversity and the facilitation of pollination. Bats and birds increase crop yield in tropical agroforestry landscapes. Prince bernhard chair of international nature conservation, utrecht university with wwf netherlands other activities. Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation oxford. From a conservation standpoint, certification of tropical agroforestry crops, especially coffee and cocoa, is of particular interest given the. Such population attributes could therefore determine whether interactions among plants are positive or negative, and thus whether allee effects, to which low density populations in high diversity communities are susceptible, are reinforced or mitigated moeller 2004.
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