More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala
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| contents | More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala Bárbara Isabela Escobar-Anleu José Roberto Soto-Shoender Javier Antípatro Rivas-Romero Nancy Montes Biología shade Agroforestry camera trapping Central America private reserves Agricultural practices can have detrimental impacts on biodiversity, but some studies have shown the benefits of agroforestry practices like shade-grown coffee to bird communities and, to a lesser extent, to mammal communities. To better understand whether shade-grown coffee plantations can contribute to the conservation of mammal communities, we deployed camera traps in private reserves with a matrix of shade-grown coffee plantations and forest in the highlands of Guatemala. At each reserve we estimated species richness of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals. We also estimated mammal relative abundance and occupancy probabilities as proxies for mammalian habitat associations and evaluated how these were affected by key landscape features (e.g., land-use type, asphalt roads, and distance to protected areas). We used hierarchical multi-species Bayesian abundance models that account for imperfect detection to estimate our parameters of interest and model the influence of landscape features on site-level species richness and species relative abundance. We detected 14 species across all reserves and found a strong influence of land use and presence of asphalt roads on mammalian relative abundances and species richness. More species used areas around the camera traps in forest than in shade-grown coffee plantations and far from asphalt roads. Our study shows that reserves with shade-grown coffee plantations can harbor terrestrial mammalian communities of conservation interest. Our results also suggest that to maintain mammalian diversity and abundances in our study area, shade-grown coffee crops should be mixed in with natural forests and the presence of asphalt roads within these should be avoided or minimized. 2023 artículo científico 0065-1737 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57577576007 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/57577576007.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/movil 10.21829/azm.2023.3912570 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=575 Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) application/pdf Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) (México) Vol.39 |
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| spellingShingle | More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala Bárbara Isabela Escobar-Anleu Biología shade Agroforestry camera trapping Central America private reserves More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala Bárbara Isabela Escobar-Anleu José Roberto Soto-Shoender Javier Antípatro Rivas-Romero Nancy Montes Biología shade Agroforestry camera trapping Central America private reserves Agricultural practices can have detrimental impacts on biodiversity, but some studies have shown the benefits of agroforestry practices like shade-grown coffee to bird communities and, to a lesser extent, to mammal communities. To better understand whether shade-grown coffee plantations can contribute to the conservation of mammal communities, we deployed camera traps in private reserves with a matrix of shade-grown coffee plantations and forest in the highlands of Guatemala. At each reserve we estimated species richness of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals. We also estimated mammal relative abundance and occupancy probabilities as proxies for mammalian habitat associations and evaluated how these were affected by key landscape features (e.g., land-use type, asphalt roads, and distance to protected areas). We used hierarchical multi-species Bayesian abundance models that account for imperfect detection to estimate our parameters of interest and model the influence of landscape features on site-level species richness and species relative abundance. We detected 14 species across all reserves and found a strong influence of land use and presence of asphalt roads on mammalian relative abundances and species richness. More species used areas around the camera traps in forest than in shade-grown coffee plantations and far from asphalt roads. Our study shows that reserves with shade-grown coffee plantations can harbor terrestrial mammalian communities of conservation interest. Our results also suggest that to maintain mammalian diversity and abundances in our study area, shade-grown coffee crops should be mixed in with natural forests and the presence of asphalt roads within these should be avoided or minimized. 2023 artículo científico 0065-1737 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57577576007 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/57577576007.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/movil 10.21829/azm.2023.3912570 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=575 Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) application/pdf Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) (México) Vol.39 |
| title | More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala |
| topic | Biología shade Agroforestry camera trapping Central America private reserves |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57577576007 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/57577576007.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/575/57577576007/movil |