2006
DOI: 10.1590/s1519-69842006000600005
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Abstract: Since disturbance is an important ecological factor affecting species diversity in natural environments, the increasing human occupation rate in Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, which supports about 50% of Brazil's human population, has resulted in intense habitat degradation and fragmentation. Within this rainforest, animal and plant species have been lost at a high rate, and biological and diversity is presently vulnerable. Various animals community studies along a gradient of environmental disturbances have s… Show more

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“…On one hand, these habitat alterations might have negatively affected forest‐dependent species but, on the other hand, environmental heterogeneity and new potential breeding sites might have attracted tolerant species able to reproduce in a wide array of water bodies. Thus, responses to habitat alteration can be more complicated than a simple decline of diversity with increasing of disturbance (see Vera y Conde & Rocha, ). In our study, amphibian richness and composition were significantly correlated with elevation and presence of lentic waters.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On one hand, these habitat alterations might have negatively affected forest‐dependent species but, on the other hand, environmental heterogeneity and new potential breeding sites might have attracted tolerant species able to reproduce in a wide array of water bodies. Thus, responses to habitat alteration can be more complicated than a simple decline of diversity with increasing of disturbance (see Vera y Conde & Rocha, ). In our study, amphibian richness and composition were significantly correlated with elevation and presence of lentic waters.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The marsupials of the genus Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 are a small non-volant mammals that are an essential component of natural communities and good indicators of environmental changes and its degree of conservation (Conde y Vera and Rocha, 2006;Castro, 2012;Quintela et al, 2013). In particular, populations of the white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris Lund, 1840) tends to increase in density in response to environmental disturbance (Cáceres et al, 2008), with associated implications for public health given that this species is a natural reservoir for a number of human diseases such as Chagas disease and leishmaniasis (Sherlock et al, 1984;Pinho et al, 2000;De Luca et al, 2003;Bern et al, 2011;Zetun et al, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, it reduces predation and competition rates between individuals and species (Vieira et al . ; Vera y Conde & Rocha ; Leiner et al . ; Lima et al .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%