selected a sample of thirty-one coffee agroforests (hereinalso referred to as farms) characterized by a wide range of farmsizes, ages, and elevations. We adopted a sampling methodol-ogy employed in previous studies on floristic richness in Chiapas(Perez-Ferrera and Tejeda-Cruz, 2011; Ramírez-Marcial et al., 2001;Rocha-Loredo et al., 2010), which consists of establishing one cir-cular plot composed of three concentric circles (radii of 5, 12, and17 m) at the center of each farm. We identified, counted, and measured the diameter at breast height (DBH) of adult shade trees