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Michigan News: U-M researchers inform ecological theory with findings from decades of coffee farm fieldwork

Q&A with University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer

University of Michigan ecologists John Vandermeer, left, and Ivette Perfecto at a coffee farm in Mexico. Vandermeer and Perfecto have spent more than 30 years investigating the interrelationships between biodiversity conservation, biological pest control, and food sovereignty at coffee farms in Mexico and Puerto Rico. Their new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines competition within the ant community at a Puerto Rican coffee farm. Image credit: Levi Stroud

Study Abstract by Vandermeer and Perfecto

Release Date:	04/10/2023
Tags:	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Research