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The Western Ghats sentinel landscape

Last update on Feb. 25, 2014.

The Western Ghats sentinel landscape

**Forest and Agroforest Mosaics of the Western Ghats**

Agroforesty systems (coffee, tea, rubber, pepper, arecanut, cardamom) shape much of the landscape of the Western Ghats, India, and the mountain range has been identified as a biodiversity hotspot (Conservation International 2008; Myers et al. 2000). Before the development of large scale commercial cultivation under British colonial ...

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