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Provedor de dados: | 49
País: | Brazil
Título: | Butterflies of Amazon and Cerrado remnants of Maranhão, Northeast Brazil
Autores: | Martins,Lucas Pereira; Araujo Junior,Elias da Costa; Martins,Ananda Regina Pereira; Colins,Mairla Santos; Almeida,Gabriela Cristina Fonseca; Azevedo,Gisele Garcia.
Data: | 2017-01-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Tropical forest; Diversity; Lepidoptera; Neotropical region; Savanna.
Resumo: | Abstract Species inventories are important tools to evaluate biodiversity losses and contribute to the conservation of endangered areas. The Amazon and Cerrado are the largest Brazilian biomes and represent some of the most threatened regions of the country. Due to its location between these biomes, the state of Maranhão, Northeast Brazil, possesses a great variety of habitats and a high local diversity. Nonetheless, few faunistic inventories of diversified groups have been performed in the state. In the specific case of butterflies, a well-known biological indicator, no inventories have been published in the past years. This study aimed to expand the knowledge on the composition of butterflies in Amazon and Cerrado remnants of Maranhão. Butterflies were sampled between 2011 and 2015 across eight municipalities of the state. Captures were made through entomological nets and baited traps. In total, 189 species were sampled, of which 165 were captured in the Amazon, 65 in the Cerrado and 41 in both biomes. We sampled 167 species through entomological nets and 43 through baited traps, representing 12% of similarity in species composition between sampling methods. We estimate that the recorded species represent a small subset of the butterflies from Maranhão. Therefore, long-term researches in poorly studied areas of the state are recommended to identify novel and/or endemic taxa.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032017000300303
Editor: | Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP
Relação: | 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2017-0335
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Biota Neotropica  v.17 n.3 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess