Climate-mediated upward shift of coffee agroforestry and associated reforestation in Arabica coffee’s native range
type: Dataset
description: Climate change is expected to cause latitudinal and elevational shifts in where crops can grow, with major consequences for land use, rural livelihoods and biodiversity. Shifts in agroforestry systems can be especially transformative, as this alters tree cover. We used semi-structured interviews and vegetation surveys to investigate the patterns, drivers, consequences and future trajectories of an upward shift of Arabica coffee agroforestry within its native range in the Afromontane mountains. We observed a climate-, income- and crop raiding-driven upward shift of coffee production into a novel elevational range, with positive feedback mechanisms enhancing the future adoption of agroforestry. Forest and open-land-derived agroforests showed similar woody plant species richness and large overlaps in community composition. Open-land-derived coffee agroforestry is, and is expected to increasingly be, the dominant coffee agroforestry type in the novel range, with positive implications for tree cover, biodiversity and ecosystem services in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
contributor: Firew Bekele Abebe
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Biology and Biodiversity Management, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University
contributor: Firew Bekele Abebe
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Biology and Biodiversity Management, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University
contributor: Ayco J M Tack
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University
creative work status: completed
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creator: Firew Bekele Abebe
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Biology and Biodiversity Management, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University
creator: Kristoffer Hylander
creator: Sileshi Nemomissa
  type: Person
  affiliation: Addis Ababa University
creator: Tamrat Bekele
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Biology and Biodiversity Management, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University
creator: Beyene Zewdie
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University
creator: Ayco J M Tack
  type: Person
  affiliation: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University
date modified: 2026-08-20
date published: 2026-08-18
language: English
keywords: Biological Sciences
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  term code: 106
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license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
publisher: Stockholm University
version: 0

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value: 10.15468/RND5P4

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Kristoffer Hylander
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affiliation: Stockholm University

Stockholm University
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Addis Ababa University
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English
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alternate name: eng