Local and Landscape Constraints on Coffee Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Diversity.

ABSTRACT: The intensification of agriculture drives many ecological and environmental consequences including impacts on crop pest populations and communities. These changes are manifested at multiple scales including small-scale management practices and changes to the composition of land-use types in the surrounding landscape. In this study, we sought to examine the influence of local and landscape-scale agricultural factors on a leafhopper herbivore community in Mexican coffee plantations. We sampled leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) diversity in 38 sites from 9 coffee plantations of the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico. While local management factors such as coffee density, branches per coffee bush, tree species, and density were not important in explaining leafhopper abundance and richness,

SUBMITTER: Vaidya C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5416845 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature