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Fungal diversity in coffee plantation systems and in a tropical montane cloud forest in Veracruz, Mexico

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We compared the abundance, species richness and diversity of saprobic filamentous microfungi in the forest and in coffee plantation systems (with different biophysical structures of the vegetation and agricultural management) and evaluated the degree of similarity in species composition among these sites. Soil washing was used to isolate the saprobic filamentous microfungi. Emerging colonies were quantified and transferred to tubes with culture medium and then mounted on semi-permanent slides for identification under the microscope. From 90 samples and 4,500 inoculated soils particles, 415 species were distinguished. The genera Trichoderma, Penicillium, Fusarium, Chaetomium and Humicola were the most frequent in all study sites. The transformation of the tropical montane cloud forest in coffee plantation had no significant effect on the abundance, species richness and diversity of the saprobic filamentous microfungi. Effects of the biophysical structures of the vegetation and the agricultural management of the sites were only detected at the level of dominant genera (Fusarium, Trichoderma and Penicillium) and on the evenness. The low degree of similarity among the six sites suggests the existence of a high exchange of species.

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Acknowledgments

This study was part of the SEMARNAT-CONACyT (C01-0194) Project. We thank C. I. Becerra, Benito Hernández and Antonio Angeles for their help in collecting samples. We also want to thank to all the landowners for granting access to the field sites. The first author thanks SEMARNAT-CONACyT (C01-0194) for a doctoral fellowship. Keith MacMillan revised the English version of the manuscript.

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    Rosa María Arias & Gabriela Heredia Abarca

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Arias, R.M., Abarca, G.H. Fungal diversity in coffee plantation systems and in a tropical montane cloud forest in Veracruz, Mexico. Agroforest Syst 88, 921–933 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-014-9736-z

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