Staffel 04 Episode 13: Cacao - How ants and bats influence yields

As cocoa is one of the most traded commodities, it was of great
interest to my guests to study its cultivation and identify both
negative and positive influences in their research. Carolina
Ocampo-Ariza, a postdoc researcher at the Georg-August-University
Göttingen in the Department of Agroecology, and Justine
Vansynghel, also a postdoc researcher at the University of
Würzburg in the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical
Biology, explain their motivation behind their research, as well
as the research area itself. Find out what results they achieved
in this short and sweet episode. Tune in!


Their published paper entitled: "Quantifying services and
disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao
agroforestry landscapes", to be found under the following link:
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1309