Authors
Eduardo Pineda, Claudia Moreno, Federico Escobar, Gonzalo Halffter
Publication date
2005/4
Journal
Conservation Biology
Volume
19
Issue
2
Pages
400-410
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Inc
Description
We compared the species diversity of copronecrophagous beetles (Scarabaeinae), bats, and frogs in tropical montane cloud forest (original vegetation) and shaded coffee plantations (an agroecosystem common to the region) for a landscape in central Veracruz, Mexico. We sampled in three tropical montane cloud forest fragments and in three coffee plantations with traditional polyculture shade between 1998 and 2001. The three indicator groups responded differently to the transformation of tropical montane cloud forest into shaded coffee plantations. The species richness of frogs was one‐fifth less in coffee plantations than in forest fragments, and only one‐third of the frog species occurred in both forest fragments and coffee plantations. The number of beetle species and their abundance was significantly greater in coffee plantations than in the forest fragments, whereas species richness and species composition …
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E Pineda, C Moreno, F Escobar, G Halffter - Conservation Biology, 2005