Characterization of the biodiversity of amphibians in productive mountain agroecosystems
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The work was carried out in the period from January 2016 to October 2018, for which amphibian biodiversity was characterized in 15 production areas belonging to 7 Credit and Service Cooperatives (CCS), 1 EJT Integral Farm and 1 Farm Integral Forest of the Yateras, Manuel Tames and Baracoa municipalities of the Guantánamo province and Sagua de Tánamo of the Holguín province. In the agroecosystems evaluated, a total of six species of amphibians were inventoried, of them two species of toads and four species of frogs. The species with the highest abundance and frequency in all agroecosystems was the banana frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis Duméril & Bibron). These results are due to the fact that the sampling effort in coffee growing areas was much higher in relation to the rest of the agroecosystems, and included remote locations with differences in their shrub and tree vegetation.
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