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Gallego Ropero, M. C., Montoya Lerma, J., & Armbrecht, I. (2009). Is beneficial for ant diversity and coffee weight? an experience in Pescador, Cauca, Colombia. Boletín Científico. Centro De Museos, 13(2), 106–116. Retrieved from https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/boletincientifico/article/view/5297
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Certain agroecological practices, such as implementing crops in agroforest systems favor biodiversity and, consequently the presence of certain biological control agents. Among these agents, predatory ants might play an important role for crop production. This study was intended to determine whether the presence of ants might affect coffee production weight two shade–management systems. Partially controlled trials were carried out, the exclusion of ants in 4 coffee plots: two with tree shade and two without shade (sun). In each plot, 45 coffee bushes were randomly selected and two treatments were established in two branches, with and without exclusion of non-flying anthropods. Ants and coffee grains were collected every two weeks, as they ripen. The coffee grains were manually processed (peeled, dried and thrashed) in order to obtain the final product, which was weighed. Although no statistical differences were found between treatments, coffee weight tended to be higher in branches with the presence of ants. A total of 18 ant genera and 49 morphospecies were found, from which 20 were shared between shaded and sun coffee plantations. The shaded system was more diverse (42 morphospecies) than the unshaded coffee system (27). Three species of Procryptocerus were found only in shaded coffee plantations. Although the results are not conclusive, they suggest that shaded coffee systems are important for biodiversity management in coffee growing regions of the Andean Tropical Mountains of Colombia.
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ARMBRECHT, I. & PERFECTO, I., 2003. Litter-twig dwelling ant species richness and predation potential within a forest fragment and neighboring coffee plantations of contrasting habitat quality in Mexico. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 97: 107-115.
BAKER, P., 1999. La broca del café en Colombia. Informe final del Proyecto MIP DFID. Cenicafé-CABIBioScience. CNTR93/1536A.
BEER, J., MUSCHLER, R., KASS, D. & SOMARRIBA, E., 1998. Shade management in coffee and cacao plantations. Agroforestry Systems, 38: 139-164.
BOLTON, C.M., 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 222 p.
GALLEGO - ROPERO , M.C., 2005. Intensidad del manejo del agroecosistema del café (Coffea arabiga L.) (monocultivo y policultivo) y riqueza de especies generalistas. Boletín del Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle, 6 (2): 16-29.
GALLEGO-ROPERO, M.C. & ARMBRECHT, I., 2005. Depredación por hormigas sobre la broca del café Hypothenemus hampei (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) en cafetales cultivados bajo dos niveles de sombra en Colombia. Manejo Integrado de Plagas y Agroecología, 76: 32-40.
GARCÍA, A., 1992. Las cohinillas del café. Guatemala, Anacafé. 10 p.
GREENBERG, R., BICHIER, P., CRUZ-ANGÓN, A., REITSMA, R., 1997. Bird populations in shade and sun coffee plantations in central Guatemala. Conservation Biology, 11 (2): 448-459.
HOLDRIDGE L.R., 1967. Life zone ecology. San José, CR, Tropical Science Center. 206 p.
HÖLLDOBLER & WILSON, E.O., 1990. The Ants. Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
LATTKE, J., 1993. Claves para la determinación de las subfamilias y géneros de hormigas neotropicales (en) JAFFE, K. LATTKE, J. & PÉREZ, E. (eds.) El mundo de las hormigas. Equinoccio Ediciones. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. 196 p.
LONGINO, J.T., 2009. Ants of Costa Rica. En: http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/ants/AntsofCostaRica.html [Consulta: enero de 2009].
LONGINO, J.T. & SNELLING, R.R., 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Procryptocerus (Hymenóptera: Formicidae) of Central America. Contributions in Science, 495: 1-30.
MULETA, D., FASSIL, A., SILESHI, N. & ULF, G., 2008. Distribution of arbuscular mycirrhizal fungi spores in soils of smallholder agroforestry and monocultural systems in southwestern Ethiopia. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 44 (4): 563-659.
MUSCHLER, R.G., 2004. Shade management and its effect on coffee growth and quality: 391-418 (en) WINTGENS JN (ed.) Coffee: Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production. A guidebook for growers, processors, traders, and researchers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH. 976 p.
NESTEL D. & DICKSCHEN, F., 1990. The foraging kinetics of ground ant communities in different Mexican coffee agroecosystems. Oecología, 84: 58-63.
PERFECTO, I. & SNELLING, R., 1995. Biodiversity and the transformation of a tropical agroecosystem -ants in coffee plantations. Ecological Applications, 5: 1084-1097.
PERFECTO I., RICE, R., GREENBERG, R. & VAN DER VOORT, M.E., 1996. Shade coffee: a disappearing refuge for biodiversity. BioScience, 46: 598-608.
PERFECTO, I. & VANDERMEER, J., 2002. Quality of agroecological matrix in a tropical montane landscape: ants in coffee plantations in southern Mexico. Conservation Biology, 16: 174-182.
________., 2006. The effect of an ant-hemipteran mutualism on the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) in southern Mexico. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 117: 218-221.
PERFECTO I., VANDERMEER J., HANSON, P. & CARTIN, V., 1997. Arthropod biodiversity loss and the transformation of a tropical agroecosystem. Biodiversity and Conservation, 6: 935-945.
PHILPOTT S.M., PERFECTO, I. & VANDERMEER, J., 2006. Effects of management intensity and season on arboreal ant diversity and abundance in coffee agroecosystems. Biodiversity and Conservation, 15: 139-155.
________., 2008. Effects of predatory ants on lower trophic levels across a gradient of coffee management complexity. Journal of Animal Ecology, 77: 505-511.
RIVERA, L. & ARMBRECHT, I., 2005. Diversidad de tres gremios de hormigas en cafetales de sombra, de sol y bosques de Risaralda. Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 31 (1): 89-96.
SANTAMARÍA, C., ARMBRECHT, I. & LACHAUD, J. P., 2009. Nest distribution and food preferences of Ectatomma ruidum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in shaded and open cattle pastures of Colombia. Sociobiology, 53 (2): 1-25.
SILESHI, G., MAFONGOYA, P. L., KWESIGA, F. & NKUNIKA, P., 2005. Termite damage to maize grown in agroforestry systems, traditional fallows and monoculture on nitrogen-limited soils in eastern Zambia. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 7: 61-69.
THOMAS, M.L., TSUTSUI, N.D. & HOWAY, D.A., 2005. Intraspecific competition influences the symmetry and intensity of aggression in the Argentine ant. Behavioral Ecology 16: 472-481.
VAN MELE, P. & VAN LENTEREN, J. C., 2002. Survey of current crop management practices in a mixed ricefield landscape, Mekong Delta, Vietnam – potential of habitat manipulation for improved control of citrus leafminer and citrus red mite. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 88: 35-48.
VANDERMEER, J., PERFECTO, I., IBARRA-NÚNEZ, G., PHILPOTT, S. & GARCÍA-BALLINAS, J. A., 2002. Ants (Azteca sp.) as potential biological control agents in organic shade coffee production in Southern Chiapas, Mexico: complication of indirect effects. Agroforestry Systems, 56: 271-276.
VARON, E.H; HANSON, P., BORBÓN, P.; CARBALLO, M. & HILJE, L., 2004. Potencial de hormigas como depredadoras de la broca del café (Hypothenemus hampei) en Costa Rica. Revista Manejo Integrado de Plagas y Agroecología, 73: 9.
VÉLEZ M., BUSTILLO, A.E. & POSADA F.J., 2000. Predación sobre Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) de las hormigas Solenopsis spp., Pheidole spp., y Dorymyrmex spp. durante el secado del café. Resúmenes XXVII Congreso. Sociedad Colombiana de Entomología, Medellín, Colombia. p. 17.
WHEELER D.E., 1984. Behavior of the ant, Procryptocerus scabriusculus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with comparisons to other Cephalotines. Psyche, 91 (3-4): 171-192.
WILLIAMS, D.J., 1996. A brief account of the hibiscus mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), a pest of agriculture and horticulture, with descriptions of two related species from southern Asia. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 86: 617-628.
