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Mendonça-Santos RG, Antoniazzi R, Camarota F, dos Reis YT, Viana-Junior AB. Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot. ACTA OECOLOGICA 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Brant HSC, da Silva PG, de Castro FS, Perillo LN, de Siqueira Neves F. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Ant Metacommunity in a Montane Forest Archipelago. NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 50:886-898. [PMID: 34292497 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-021-00901-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Naturally fragmented landscapes are adequate systems for evaluating patterns and mechanisms that determine species distribution without confounding effects of anthropogenic fragmentation and habitat loss. We aimed to evaluate an ant metacommunity's spatiotemporal patterns in montane forest islands amid a grassland-dominated matrix. We assessed these patterns by deconstructing the ant metacommunity into forest-dependent and habitat generalist species. We sampled twice a year (summer and winter) over 2 years (2014 and 2015), using soil and arboreal pitfall traps, in fourteen forest islands (varying in size, shape, and connectivity) in the Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, Brazil. We evaluated the relationship between ant species richness, composition (β-diversity), and predictor variables of forest island structure (canopy cover and understory density) and landscape structure (forest amount, number of forest islands, and shape). We sampled 99 ant species, 66.7% of which were classified as forest-dependent and 33.3% as habitat generalist species. We found that ant β-diversity was higher in space than in time, and that species composition variation in time (temporal β-diversity) differed between ant species groups. Both ant groups responded differently to forest island and landscape structure characteristics. Landscape structure seems to act as a spatial filter and the forest islands' local characteristics as an environmental filter, which jointly determine the local and regional diversity. We demonstrate the importance that forest archipelagos pose to ant metacommunity's structure and dynamics in montane tropical regions. Mountaintop conservation and management strategies must consider the forest island archipelago to maintain the biodiversity and the functioning of these systems.
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- Humberto Soares Caldeira Brant
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Uso dos Recursos Naturais, Univ Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Conservação e Manejo da Vida Silvestre, Univ Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Conservação e Manejo da Vida Silvestre, Univ Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Conservação e Manejo da Vida Silvestre, Univ Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Bocaina Biologia da Conservação, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Uso dos Recursos Naturais, Univ Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Conservação e Manejo da Vida Silvestre, Univ Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Depto de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Univ Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Carvalho JS, Henriquez JMO, Pino BSD, Lutinski JA, Lima ACRDE, Garcia FRM. What is the influence of agroecological and conventional crops under ant assemblages? AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2021; 93:e20201821. [PMID: 34730620 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202120201821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The objective of the study was to compare the richness and diversity of ant assemblages in an agroecological system under peach orchard, conventional system under peach orchard cultivation and native vegetation in rural properties located in a Pampa Biome. The study was conducted in four samplings in 2017: 1st and 09th March (summer); 24th and 31st July (winter); and four samplings in 2018: 23rd and 30th January (summer); 31st July and 07th August (winter). Pitfall traps were used. The assemblages were characterized and compared using richness, number of occurrences of ants, Shannon diversity (H'), equitability, rarefaction analysis and Chao 1. The association of the species with the samples was evaluated by a Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The agroecological system had the highest number of occurrences, while the conventional orchard the lowest number. Richness and abundance were greatest during the summer. The conventional peach orchard obtained the lowest H' for both seasons when compared to the agroecological orchard and native vegetation. The PCA explained 77.40% of the occurrence of ants in the environments and in the seasons. The results found demonstrated that conservationist systems tend to harbor greater wealth and diversity of ant assemblages, as well as occurring in native áreas.
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- Juliana S Carvalho
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Produção Agrícola Familiar, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Solos, Campus Universitário, s/n, 96160-000 Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Produção Agrícola Familiar, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Solos, Campus Universitário, s/n, 96160-000 Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Produção Agrícola Familiar, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Solos, Campus Universitário, s/n, 96160-000 Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó, Rua Beija-Flor, 709/710, Efapi, 89809760 Chapecó, SC, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Produção Agrícola Familiar, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Solos, Campus Universitário, s/n, 96160-000 Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Caixa Postal 354, Porto, 96010-900 Pelotas, RS, Brazil
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Nunes CA, Castro FS, Brant HSC, Powell S, Solar R, Fernandes GW, Neves FS. High Temporal Beta Diversity in an Ant Metacommunity, With Increasing Temporal Functional Replacement Along the Elevational Gradient. Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.571439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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