Comunidade de Carabidae (Coleoptera) em manchas florestais no Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Vieira, Letícia; Lopes, Frederico Santos; Fernandes, Wedson Desidério; Raizer, Josué

doi:10.1590/s0073-47212008000300005

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“…Uehara‐Prado et al () found 14 carabid species either in disturbed or undisturbed sites in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest located in the eastern region of São Paulo, while in three environments in the Araucaria humid forest of southern Brazil, Moraes et al () observed 14 carabid species in the primary forest, 13 species in a secondary forest and 10 species in a Pinus forest. However, Vieira et al () reported a carabid species richness higher than the one found in this study; they found 64 species in six forest patches (capões) in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso de Sul.…”

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Edge effects on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between forest fragments and agricultural fields in south‐east Brazil

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There is very little information available on the abundance, diversity and distribution of Neotropical species of carabid beetles in agroecosystems. We studied the diversity and similarity of carabids in forest fragments, soybean/corn crops and edges, and we also determined the number of individuals of carabid species in fragment and crop during the growing season of crop and the off-season period. The study was carried out on three separate areas located in the Jaboticabal and Guaíra municipalities, São Paulo State, Brazil, from November 2004 to May 2008. Each location consisted of forest fragment, adjacent soybean/corn crop and edge. Carabids were sampled with 48 pitfall traps arranged along two parallel transects 200 m long. In total, 3544 individuals of 62 species were collected, with the following five species dominating: Abaris basistriata Chaudoir, Odontocheila nodicornis (Dejean), Tetracha brasiliensis (Kirby), Scarites sp. 3 and Scarites sp. 4. Highest species diversity occurred in the edge with weedy plants. Carabid communities showed high similarity between edgecrop and edgefragments. Abaris basistriata, Calosoma granulatum Perty, Galerita brasiliensis Dejean, Selenophorus alternans Dejean, Selenophorus discopunctatus Dejean, T. brasiliensis and species of Scarites showed the most potential as biocontrol agents of soybean/corn pests.

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Edge effects on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between forest fragments and agricultural fields in south‐east Brazil

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“…The epigaeic carabid assemblage in tropical dry forest was species poor but with high dominance, like in other tropical carabid communities (Paarmann et al 2002;Vieira et al 2008;Rosero 2010). Only 12% of the species collected had more than 10 individuals, while 46% were singletons or doubletons.…”

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Early successional dynamics of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the tropical dry forest ecosystem in Colombia

Ariza¹,

Jácome²,

Esquivel³

et al. 2021

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Little is known about the successional dynamics of insects in the highly threatened tropical dry forest (TDF) ecosystem. For the first time, we studied the response of carabid beetles to vegetal succession and seasonality in this ecosystem in Colombia. Carabid beetles were collected from three TDF habitat types in two regions in Colombia: initial successional state (pasture), early succession, and intermediate succession (forest). The surveys were performed monthly for 13 months in one of the regions (Armero) and during two months, one in the dry and one in the wet season, in the other region (Cambao). A set of environmental variables were recorded per month at each site. Twenty-four carabid beetle species were collected during the study. Calosoma alternans and Megacephala affinis were the most abundant species, while most species were of low abundance. Forest and pasture beetle assemblages were distinct, while the early succession assemblage overlapped with these assemblages. Canopy cover, litter depth, and soil and air temperatures were important in structuring the assemblages. Even though seasonality did not affect the carabid beetle assemblage, individual species responded positively to the wet season. It is shown that early successional areas in TDF could potentially act as habitat corridors for species to recolonize forest areas, since these successional areas host a number of species that inhabit forests and pastures. Climatic variation, like the El Niño episode during this study, appears to affect the carabid beetle assemblage negatively, exasperating concerns of this already threatened tropical ecosystem.

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“…The lowest lands in the Pantanal are periodically flooded, whereas the higher areas usually are not, except during the major pluriannual floods (Vieira et al 2008). During normal floods, the dry areas serve as "islands" or shelters, for animals that otherwise would not survive the floodings.…”

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“…Mechanisms that determine diversity in Pantanal environments have been only partly investigated (Suárez et al 2004;Corrêa et al 2006;Feener et al 2008;Vieira et al 2008). Moreover, there is a lack of studies in these environments, which concentrates most of endemic biodiversity, using taxa-models, such as ants.…”

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Temporal variation in the composition of ant assemblages (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on trees in the Pantanal floodplain, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Soares¹,

Súarez²,

Fernandes³

et al. 2013

Rev. Bras. entomol.

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One of the main challenges in the study of insect communities is to explain what determines species diversity and how it occurs. Many ecological factors have been reported to affect the richness and composition of species in biological communities and different ecological and environmental factors can structure ant communities on different spatial scales (Kaspari & Weiser 1999; Kneitel & Chase 2004). In the wetlands of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, dry and rainy seasons alternate annually. During the rainy season, a large plain, which includes parts of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil, is covered by the flood (Feener et al. 2008). Floods are the main regulating force of diversity patterns and processes in the area (Adis et al. 2001). Faunal diversity depends on the seasonality of important structural events, which usually leads to the inundation of large areas (Raizer & Amaral 2001). The Pantanal is one of the least known biomes of Brazil, and it has been suggested that the functional role of invertebrates in this ecosystem has a large contribution to its preservation (Lewinsohn et al. 2005). The ant family Formicidae is one of the most successful insect groups, and includes one of the highest species number and biomass among invertebrates, being also omnipresent in a wide range of environments (Santos et al. 2003; Battirola et al. 2005), easy to collect and identify, and responding relatively quickly to habitat changes (Ribas & Shoereder 2007). In addition, a significant correlation between habitat structural characteristics and structural patterns of ant communities has often been found (Samways 1983; Soares et al. 2007). Although some previous studies have demonstrated that the coexistence of arboreal ant species is affected by various abiotic and biotic factors (

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Comunidade de Carabidae (Coleoptera) em manchas florestais no Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Edge effects on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between forest fragments and agricultural fields in south‐east Brazil

Edge effects on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between forest fragments and agricultural fields in south‐east Brazil

Early successional dynamics of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the tropical dry forest ecosystem in Colombia

Temporal variation in the composition of ant assemblages (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on trees in the Pantanal floodplain, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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