Vina and All:
Yes, the right kind of integration of crop plants into an existing
ecosystem, particularly those that are either indigenous or unlikely to
reproduce, yet have their requirements met by the ecosystem with limited
displacement of indigenous species' populations (maintaining viable, but
reduced populations of those species for which coffee or (other plants are,
in effect, a surrogate) can be a way of having one's coffee and drinking it
too.
WT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andres Vina" <v...@msu.edu>
To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Human-assembled ecosystem
Dear WT,
There are many types of human cultivation around the world. You are
probably thinking only about monospecific row crops. How about (just but
an example) shade coffee farming?
Andres Vina
On 9/1/2013 3:17 PM, Wayne Tyson wrote:
Human cultivation not only lacks the internal cycling of energy that
ecosystem functions like the activities of termites and ants do, but
distributes energy into other ecosystems, or wastes it, creating a
deficit, sometimes in both.
WT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andres Vina" <v...@msu.edu>
To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Human-assembled ecosystem
Dear WT,
How about cultivation of fungi by termites and ants?
Andres Vina
