[Pollinator] Articles -- economics of coffee pollination

[Matthew Shepherd (Xerces Society)]

The latest issue of Ecology and Society contains a few articles that may be of interest. They are all on-line at http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/

The article that may be of most direct relevance discusses the economics of protecting tropical forest to provide coffee crop pollination. (The abstract says that the revenues from converting the forest to crop land is greater than the pollination value.):
Roland Olschewski, Teja Tscharntke, Pablo C. Benítez, Stefan Schwarze, and Alexandra-Maria Klein. Economic Evaluation of Pollination Services Comparing Coffee Landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia

The issue also has a special feature on urban sprawl, in which some articles discuss ecosystem services:
Erik Andersson. Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities
Colin D. Butler and Willis Oluoch-Kosura. Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being

Matthew
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