Table 2.

Examples of species richness and diversity maintained in agroforestry systems (AFS) in different tropical, temperate and arid zones of the World

Reference	Environment	Region	AFS	Species richness	Diversity	% of species from forest	Taxa evaluated
Bhagwat et al. (2008) [27]	Tropical	General review	General review	N/A	N/A	60 %	General
Toledo and Moguel (2012) [66]	Tropical	Puebla, México	Coffee plantations	140	N/A		Plants
Steffan-Dewenter et al. (2007) [68]	Tropical	Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.	Cocoa plantations	189 trees		40 %	Trees
				166 herbs	N/A		Herbs
				208 insects		40 %	Insects
Sonwa et al. (2007) [91]	Tropical	Central and southern Cameroon,	Cocoa plantations	203	Sørensen 0.44		Trees
					Shannon 3.7
					Simpson 0.12
						70 %	Ants
				30	N/A	N/A	Ants
Asase and Tetteh (2010) [74]	Tropical	Adjeikrom, Ghana	Cocoa plantations	27	Shannon 2.46	N/A	Trees
			Other crops	31	AFS 2.6 Forest 4.94	N/A
Okubo et al. (2010) [63]	Tropical	Java, Indonesia	Bamboo gardens	76	Shannon: 1.66	N/A	Trees
Vallejo et al. (2014) [49]	Temperate	Tehuacán Valley, Mexico	Maize fields	79	N/A	43 %	Trees and shrubs
Moreno-Calles et al. (2010) [15]	Arid	Tehuacán Valley, Mexico	Maize fields	73	N/A	59 %	Plants
Nabhan (1987, 2007) [24, 54]	Arid	Northern Mexico	Cultivated oasis	139	N/A	N/A	Plants
				103	N/A	N/A	Birds
				14	N/A	N/A	Mammals
Blanckaert et al. (2007) [45]	Arid	Tehuacán Valley, México	Maize fields	161	N/A	49 %	Herbs

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