Secondly, given the greater sensitivity of forest bats to changes in tree cover, maintenance of a dense and diverse shade canopy in coffee plantations would enhance bat movement throughout the landscape and provide increased foraging opportunities for forest bats, many of which feed on the most damaging insect pests of coffee (KWG, unpublished data).
We conclude that diverse shade coffee plantations in our study area serve as valuable foraging and commuting habitat for aerial insectivorous bats, and several species also commute through or forage in low shade coffee monocultures.
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On the other hand, the location and study of temperate montane grasslands with diverse, shade-intolerant floras, which are both stable and persistent, in the absence of a long history of large herbivores, episodic fire, or human intervention would require a reassessment of our hypothesis.
In tropical America, coffee is traditionally grown under a diverse canopy of overstory shade trees, which enhances the quality of the coffee farm as a conservation matrix and supports a broad spectrum of pollinators that increase fruit set per bush [2 4].
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These findings show that traditional shade coffee management practices can maintain a diverse suite of forest birds.
(ii) Each hosts a diverse herbaceous community marked by light-dependent (i.e. shade-intolerant) species, suggesting a long, shade-free history.
That cooperation, the researchers say--with "weedy" birch helping out shade-bound fir--highlights the value of a diverse forest to foresters.
