Ecosystem Services Provided by Insects in Brazil: What Do We Really Know?

Ramos, Davi de L.; Cunha, Wanderson Lacerda da; Evangelista, Juliane; Lira, Luiz Antonio; Rocha, Marcus Vinícius Celani; Gomes, Paulo R.; Frizzas, Marina Regina; Togni, Pedro Henrique Brum

doi:10.1007/s13744-020-00781-y

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“…A potential solution to this is partnership with a local aparist or an apiarist society. Insects are an essential part of most, if not all, ecosystems [45][46][47][48]. They provide multiple ecological functions, ranging from breaking down organic matter in the soil to pollination and the control of insect and plant pests [49][50][51].…”

Section: Insect-based Engagementmentioning

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Honeybee cognition as a tool for scientific engagement

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Honeybees are a well-established model for the study of learning and cognition. This is mostly due to the existence of well established conditioning protocols in this group. Although most conditioning protocols are straightforward, their implementation can be challenging due to the presence of multiple procedural steps necessary to ensure learning. Therefore, the use of volunteers to assist in data collection, can be a valuable resource to those who study animal cognition. Here, we developed and implemented a protocol to safely study the effects of caffeine and dopamine on learning performance in honeybees. Using a classical conditioning protocol, we demonstrated that caffeine, but not dopamine, significantly reduced the number of trials required for a successful conditioning response.

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Section: Insect-based Engagementmentioning

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Honeybee cognition as a tool for scientific engagement

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Koludarov

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“…nsects (Hexapoda: Insecta) are the most diverse and abundant organisms in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, being important agents of ecosystem services such as pollination (performed mainly by bees and butterflies, some wasps, flies and beetles), biological control (parasitoid wasps and predators in general), seed dispersal (some ants) and nutrient cycling (larvae of various soil and litter insects, in addition to cockroaches, termites and beetles) (Crespo-peréz et al 2020;ramos et al 2020). In recent decades, there has been a recurrent record of declining abundance, biomass, and diversity in different regions of the globe for different taxonomic groups (Forister et al 2019;Goulson 2019;Jansen & HallwaCHs 2019).…”

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Abundance and seasonality of insects in urban fragments of the Brazilian Cerrado

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Insects are important ecosystem agents, however, in general, a decline in the composition and abundance of these animals around the globe has been observed. In the urban environment, this characteristic has been more critical, due to the lack of diversity and quality of habitats in these environments, which feature fragmentation of habitats. Thus, processes that naturally affect the composition of animals in the environment can be observed, shaping the abundance of species in their environments, processes such as seasonality, especially in tropical regions, with well-defined rain and dry seasons. Thus, the aim of this work was to evaluate the seasonality and abundance of insects in urban fragments in the Cerrado, for this purpose four urban fragments were sampled in Campo Grande MS, during the months of January to December 2012 using Malaise traps. 26,890 individuals of 19 orders were collected, where the abundance of insect orders stands out Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hemipetera and Trichoptera. A peak in general insect abundance was found in November, and there were significant differences over the months between different orders. However, no difference was found between the fragments, however, there was a trend towards changes in the diversity of orders related to the size of the fragments. The different strategies to deal with water stress well marked for the Cerrado is an important factor for the composition of the insect fauna of the domain and variations in the habitat, such as area size and phytosocionomic composition directly affect the orders found.

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“…However, it has constantly suffered from anthropogenic actions, such as severe losses and fragmentation of native areas due to agricultural activities (Klink & Machado 2005), which has led to reductions in ecosystem services provided by the Cerrado and its diverse inhabitants (Tilman et al 2002). Despite the services that the insects provides, such as pollination, decomposition, and biological control of pests (Ramos et al 2020), cerambycid beetles have been negatively affected by deforestation caused by timber extraction and agricultural activity (IUCN 2019). A study conducted in Australia showed that the Cerambycidae community is influenced by burning regimes, which promote habitat alteration; the study showed that burned areas had a greater richness of beetles than unburned areas, and that the abundance of beetles in areas burned triennially was greater than that in unburned areas (Eliott et al 2019).…”

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Diversity of Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Cerrado of Central Brazil using a new type of bait

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The Cerambycidae family (Insecta: Coleoptera) has approximately 38 thousand species. In Brazil, more than 4,300 species and 1,050 genera are registered, and despite the ecological and agricultural importance of this family, no study has yet been done in the Cerrado of the Distrito Federal (Brazil). The objective of this study was to evaluate the richness and abundance of Cerambycidae in the Cerrado area using two types of fruits (banana and pineapple), fermented with sugarcane juice, as bait and to verify whether the richness is influenced by climate variables. The work was carried out in an area of the cerrado sensu stricto at Água Limpa Farm in the Distrito Federal. Beetles were collected weekly using 40 bait traps with two types of fruits that remained in the field for 12 uninterrupted months (November 2013 to October 2014). The traps were installed 1.50 m above the ground level, distributed in four 80 m transects, and spaced 20 m apart. A total of 1,599 individuals, belonging to 13 genera and different 19 species, were collected. The main species were as follows: Oxymerus basalis (Dalman, 1823) representing 78.3%, Retrachydes thoracicus thoracicus (Olivier, 1790) representing 9.9%, and Chydarteres bicolor (Fabricius, 1787) representing 4.5% of the total specimens collected. There was a significant difference in richness and abundance of Cerambycidae among the baits evaluated, with the pineapple bait presenting the highest values. The greatest number of individuals and species occurred soon after the first rains, especially in November. Temporal variation was confirmed through Rayleigh’s uniformity test, following the seasonality of the Cerrado, with the greatest number of individuals and species found in the rainy season. Temperature and humidity influenced the richness of cerambycid beetles. This is the first work carried out with pineapple fermented with sugarcane juice as bait to capture Cerambycidae, and this type of bait proved to be efficient for the collection of insects, comparable in efficiency to the synthetic baits that are normally used. All species collected were new distribution records for the Distrito Federal (Brazil).

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Ecosystem Services Provided by Insects in Brazil: What Do We Really Know?

Cited by 28 publications

References 60 publications

Honeybee cognition as a tool for scientific engagement

Honeybee cognition as a tool for scientific engagement

Abundance and seasonality of insects in urban fragments of the Brazilian Cerrado

Diversity of Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Cerrado of Central Brazil using a new type of bait

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