Spider community in forest-coffee agricultural landscape in southwest Ethiopia

They were collected from 40 home gardens from May to September 2011. The specimens were collected using pitfall traps during two separate months and related sample composition to land use in the vicinity (1 ha plot, local scale, field data) and tree cover within 200 and 500 m radius zones (landscape scale, satellite data).

The highest spider abundances were found when either the home garden or the surrounding had high tree cover and were lower in both the most tree-rich and tree-poor landscape-garden combinations.