BirdScope is the newsletter for members of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, one of the world's best known bird research, education, and citizen science organizations. This latest issue has a short article on shade coffee. Yours truly is quoted in it. Check it out: Saving the tropics one sip at a time.
Revised on August 14, 2011
Shade coffee article from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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>Rainfall and cloud patterns in much of the tropics are a result of transpiration of tropical plants rather than broader weather patterns, and so clearing these moist forests has led to reduced cloud cover and rainfall in wide swaths of surrounding natural habitat as well as the plantations themselves.>
among many points, this is something i didn't that blows my mind. thanks for posting and congrats on the deserved recognition of your expertise and work!
Thanks, Nate!
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