Flutuação populacional de gafanhotos na Floresta Nacional de Chapecó, Santa Catarina

Fire is a frequent disturbance in grassland ecosystems enabling variability in habitat characteristics and creating important environmental filters for community assembly. Changes in vegetation have a large influence on herbivore insect assemblages. Here, we explored the responses of grasshoppers to disturbance by fire in grasslands of southern Brazil through a small-scale experiment based in paired control and burned plots. The resilience of grasshoppers was assessed by monitoring changes to their abundance, taxonomic, and functional parameters along time. Burned patches have been already recolonized by grasshoppers 1 month after fire and did not differ in terms of abundance and richness from control areas in any evaluated time within 1 year. Simpson diversity decreased 1 month after fire due to the increased dominance of Dichroplus misionensis (Carbonell) and Orphulella punctata (De Geer). In this period, grasshoppers presented in average a smaller body and a larger relative head size; these are typically nymph characteristics, which are possibly indicating a preference of juveniles for the young high-quality vegetation, or a diminished vulnerability to predation in open areas. Further, at 6 months after fire grasshoppers with smaller relative hind femur and thus lower dispersal ability seemed to be benefitted in burned patches. Finally, 1 year after fire grasshoppers became more similar to each other in relation to their set of traits. This study demonstrates how taxonomic and functional aspects of grasshopper assemblages can be complementary tools to understand their responses to environmental change.

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Taxonomic and Functional Resilience of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Caelifera) to Fire in South Brazilian Grasslands

Ferrando

Podgaiski

Costa

et al. 2016

Neotrop Entomol

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Tamanho e Número Ideal de Amostras para Coleta de Gafanhotos na Região Depressão Central do Rio Grande do Sul

et al. 2013

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Objetivando observar a viabilidade de um novo método para amostragem de acridóideos (conhecidos vulgarmente por gafanhotos), bem como a distancia percorrida e número ideal de amostras para amostragem foi proposto o estudo. Os levantamentos foram conduzidos em duas áreas de campo nativo no município de São Sepé, localizado na região Depressão Central no RS. As coletas foram realizadas durante o verão de 2009 com o auxilio de uma rede de coleta adaptada. As distâncias avaliadas foram de 5, 10, 15, 20 e 25m, com oito repetições cada, sendo 40 coletas por área, a amostragem foi ao acaso. As variáveis respostas foram: adultos, ninfas, espécies e número total de insetos. Foram calculadas as estatísticas descritivas, o teste Qui-quadrado a 5% de probabilidade de erro e à relação mediana/pseudo-sigma, aliada a metodologia de reamostragem Jackknife. Foram coletados 969 espécimes distribuídos em 22 espécies, 17 Gêneros, três Famílias distintas Acrididae, Proscopiidae e Romaleidae, e duas Superfamílias (Acridoidea e Eumastacoidea). Evidenciou-se relativa eficiência do método proposto. A distancia percorrida de 25 m aliada ao número de sete amostras mostrou-se ideal para coleta de acridóideos. Ideal Size and Number of Samples to Collect Grasshoppers in the Central Depression in Rio Grande do Sul Abstract. Aiming to observe the viability of a new method for sampling acridoideos (by commonly known locusts) and the ideal distance and number of samples for the study sample was proposed. The surveys were conducted in two areas of native grassland in Sao Sepe, in Central Depression, Rio Grande do Sul State. Samples were collected during the summer of 2009 with the help of a network of collection adapted. The distances were measured 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25m, with eight repetitions each, of which 40 samples per area, sampling was random. The response variables were: adults, nymphs, and total number of species of insects. Descriptive statistics were calculated, Chi-square test and used the median ratio/pseudo-sigma methodology combined with Jackknife resampling. We collected 969 specimens representing 22 species, 17 Genres and three distinct families Acrididae, Proscopiidae and Romaleidae, and also two Superfamilies (Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea). It was evident relative efficiency of the proposed method. The distance traveled of 25 m coupled with the number seven samples proved to be ideal for collecting of grasshoppers.

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Flutuação populacional de gafanhotos na Floresta Nacional de Chapecó, Santa Catarina

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Taxonomic and Functional Resilience of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Caelifera) to Fire in South Brazilian Grasslands

Taxonomic and Functional Resilience of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Caelifera) to Fire in South Brazilian Grasslands

Tamanho e Número Ideal de Amostras para Coleta de Gafanhotos na Região Depressão Central do Rio Grande do Sul

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