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Interacción entre parámetros fisicoquímicos y morfométricos con la familia Culicidae (Izquierda) y la familia Chironomidae (Derecha).
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RESUMEN: La pérdida potencial de los bosques nublados como resultado del avance de la frontera agrícola, ha generado procesos de perdida en cascada de la diversidad biológica. Uno de los componentes conspicuos de dichos ecosistemas son las bromelias, que al almacenar considerables volúmenes de agua entre sus hojas, dan lugar al desarrollo de comuni...
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... s are considered crops pollinators of cacao (Cazorla-Perfetti 2014; Kaufmann 1975; Montero-Cedeño et al. 2019), avocado (Castañeda-Vildózola et al. 1999) and mango(Sánchez et al. 2018). However, these crops do not grow at these altitudes, but they can be considered as possible pollinating agents of the wild plants that inhabit these agroecosystems.Diaz (2021) found that bromeliad length determined arthropod diversity. Other authors have concluded that the whole structure of bromeliad is of importance to arthropod diversity(Herrera 2003; Jocque and Field 2014; Nielsen 2011; Ospina-Bautista et al. 2004) ...
Shade coffee plantations are considered reservoirs of local flora and fauna. Epiphytic bromeliads are an important component of flora that inhabit not only shade trees but also coffee bushes in southeast of Mexico. At the same time, in these plants inhabit a diversity of arthropods poorly documented. We chose Catopsis minimiflora as the studied species because this bromeliad is abundant in coffee plantations and has a specialized reproductive system (dioecy). We counted the number of individuals of C. minimiflora growing over coffee bushes and shade trees and collected 58 bromeliads in two seasons (dry and rainy). We registered 2,048 arthropods (including 21 orders and 71 families) inhabited these plants. Based on hill numbers, no significant difference was found in richness between seasons; however, species dominance was higher in the rainy season. We estimated 27,215.5 arthropods/ha in the dry season and 31,227 arthropods/ha in the rainy season inhabited C. minimiflora that grow over coffee bushes. This arthropod community associated with C. minimiflora could provide ecosystem services such as pollination or depredation in a coffee agroecosystem. Epiphyte removal could have a negative effect on the abundance of this plant species, and in turn, it may have an impact on arthropods associated with them.
