Both forest fragmentation and coffee cultivation negatively affect epiphytic orchid diversity in Ethiopian moist evergreen Afromontane forests KU Leuven
The moist evergreen Afromontane forest of SW Ethiopia has become extremely fragmented and most of the remnants are intensively managed for cultivation of coffee (Coffea arabica), with considerable impacts on forest structure, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We assessed the effect of coffee forest management and forest fragmentation on epiphytic orchid diversity. We selected large and small intensively managed forest sites and compared ...