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Provedor de dados: | 92
País: | Brazil
Título: | Spatial variation of dung beetle assemblages associated with forest structure in remnants of southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Autores: | Silva,Pedro Giovâni da; Hernández,Malva Isabel Medina.
Data: | 2016-03-01
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Beta diversity; Species composition; Species diversity; Spatial distribution; Tropical forest.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, and is currently highly fragmented and disturbed due to human activities. Variation in environmental conditions in the Atlantic Forest can influence the distribution of species, which may show associations with some environmental features. Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) are insects that act in nutrient cycling via organic matter decomposition and have been used for monitoring environmental changes. The aim of this study is to identify associations between the spatial distribution of dung beetle species and Atlantic Forest structure. The spatial distribution of some dung beetle species was associated with structural forest features. The number of species among the sampling sites ranged widely, and few species were found in all remnant areas. Principal coordinates analysis indicated that species composition, abundance and biomass showed a spatially structured distribution, and these results were corroborated by permutational multivariate analysis of variance. The indicator value index and redundancy analysis showed an association of several dung beetle species with some explanatory environmental variables related to Atlantic Forest structure. This work demonstrated the existence of a spatially structured distribution of dung beetles, with significant associations between several species and forest structure in Atlantic Forest remnants from Southern Brazil.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262016000100073
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Relação: | 10.1016/j.rbe.2015.11.001
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  v.60 n.1 2016
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess