Towards an ecologically-sustainable forestry in the Atlantic Forest

Fonseca, Carlos Roberto; Ganade, Gislene; Baldissera, Ronei; Becker, C. Guilherme; Boelter, Carlos Renato; Brescovit, Antônio D.; Campos, Lucas M.; Fleck, Tomás; Fonseca, Vanda Simone da Silva; Hartz, Sandra Maria; Joner, Fernando; Käffer, Márcia Isabel; Leal-Zanchet, Ana María; Marcelli, Marcelo Pinto; Mesquita, Alex; Mondin, Cláudio Augusto; Paz, Claudia; Petry, Maria Virgı́nia; Piovensan, Fabio N.; Putzke, Jair; Stranz, Anamaria; Vergara, Micheline; Vieira, Emerson M.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.017

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“…However, despite such positive examples, the situation for the fauna and flora of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest remains precarious (Marsden et al 2005, Tabarelli et al 2005, Fonseca et al 2009, Galetti et al 2009, Teixeira et al 2009. Protected areas are recognized as a key part of conservation initiatives (NaughtonTreves et al 2005, Rands et al 2010, Stockstad 2010) with >13% of Brazilian terrestrial biomes receiving legal protection at federal or state levels (Rylands & Brandon 2005).…”

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A Survey of mid and large bodied mammals in Núcleo Caraguatatuba, Serra do Mar State Park, Brazil

Norris

Ramírez

Zacchi³

et al. 2012

Biota Neotrop.

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We applied complementary survey techniques to obtain a baseline species list of mid and large bodied mammals in Núcleo Caraguatatuba, Serra do Mar State park, Brazil. Between May and September 2011 we surveyed the community of mid and large bodied mammals using diurnal line transect census (212.4 km), camera-traps (223.2 camera-trap days) and track-stations (478 track-station days). A total of 18 species were recorded from 14 families in eight orders. We recorded the presence of seven species considered threatened in the State of São Paulo, including Primates (Brachyteles arachnoides), Artiodactyla (Mazama cf. americana and Tayassu pecari), Carnivora (Leopardus pardalis, Leopardus tigrinus and Puma concolor) and Perissodactyla (Tapirus terrestris). Based on extrapolated (First order jackknife) species richness estimates we predict that there are between 19 and 32 species of mid and large bodied mammals in the Núcleo. Our revised Mammal Priority Index ranked Núcleo Caraguatatuba as being of medium overall importance for the conservation of mid and large bodied mammals in the Atlantic Forest. Combined with the number and diversity of species recorded, our results demonstrate that this Núcleo is an important area for mammal conservation.

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A Survey of mid and large bodied mammals in Núcleo Caraguatatuba, Serra do Mar State Park, Brazil

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Ramírez

Zacchi³

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“…ensuring some degree of plant diversity to maintain a complex litter layer, might enhance spider aggregations. Allowing native understory establishment within the stand, or using polycultures (Fonseca et al, 2009;Paquette & Messier, 2010) are some examples of strategies that could be used to benefit generalist predators biodiversity and their mediated ecosystem services. The mixing of species stands comprising two or more tree commercial species is a strategy increasingly being considered to achieve ecological and economic goals in Europe (e.g.…”

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“…Empirical evidence has demonstrated that industrial forests may achieve economic purposes while maintaining considerable habitat complexity and conserving a large fraction of the natural forest biodiversity, including both within-and between stand diversity. There are several recommendations to ecologically design tree plantations; some few examples are (1) planting trees in lower densities and allowing natural rich understory establishment and development (Fonseca et al, 2009), (2) leaving natural vegetation margins and patches among the rows of planted trees, and (3) using native mixed-species, or polycultures (Paquette & Messier, 2010). As these designs allow greater plant diversity, they potentially increase the leaf-litter layer complexity within the plantations.…”

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Spider community responds to litter complexity: insights from a small-scale experiment in an exotic pine stand

Podgaiski

Rodrigues

2017

Iheringia, Sér. Zool.

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ABSTRACT. Conservation of biodiversity in agroecosystems is an urgent need, and a suitable approach to maximize animal biodiversity and their services is the restoration of habitat heterogeneity. Here we investigated the value of increasing litter complexity in tree plantations of exotic pine for ground spiders. We hypothesized that increasing the litter complexity of these systems, as it would be the case in ecologically designed plantations, would increase spider aggregations. We performed a small-scale litter manipulation experiment within an exotic pine stand in the municipality of Minas do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and compared spider diversity in simple (only pine needles) and complex substrates (with the addition of diverse native broadleaves). We found 1,110 spiders, 19 families and 32 morphospecies. The most abundant families were Linyphiidae, Theridiidae and Salticidade, and the dominant morphospecies were Thymoites sp. 2 and Lygarina sp. Web-building spiders represented 61% of total spider abundance, and 17 species, while hunting spiders, 49% and 15 species. As expected, densities of spider individuals and species from both web-building and hunting spiders were higher in complex litter substrate. Potential preys (Collembola) also responded positively to the treatment, and had infl uence of spider community patterns. Our results suggest that ensuring some degree of plant and litter diversity within pine stands (e.g. understory establishment) might foster spider aggregations and possibly help to conserve their diversity at local-scales. KEYWORDS.Habitat complexity, habitat selection, species diversity, foraging strategy. RESUMO.Comunidade de aranhas responde a complexidade da serapilheira: percepções de um experimento de pequena escala em um talhão de pinus exótico. A conservação da biodiversidade em agroecossistemas é uma necessidade urgente, e uma abordagem adequada a maximizar a biodiversidade animal e seus serviços é a restauração da heterogeneidade de habitats. Aqui nós investigamos o valor do aumento da complexidade da serapilheira em plantações exóticas de pinus para aranhas de solo. Nossa hipótese é que aumentando a complexidade da serapilheira nestes sistemas, como seria o caso em plantações com design ecológico, as agregações de aranhas aumentariam. Nós realizamos uma manipulação experimental de pequena escala em uma plantação exótica de pinus no município de Minas do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul, e comparamos a diversidade de aranhas em substrato simples (somente acículas de pinus) e complexo (com adição de folhas nativas diversas). Nós encontramos 1.110 aranhas, 19 famílias e 32 morfoespécies. As famílias mais abundantes foram Linyphiidae, Theridiidae e Salticidade, e as morfoespécies dominantes foram Thymoites sp. 2 e Lygarina sp. Aranhas de teia representaram 61% da abundância total de aranhas e 17 espécies, enquanto aranhas caçadoras, 49% e 15 espécies. Como esperado, densidades de indivíduos e de espécies de ambas construtoras de teia e caçadoras foram maiores em substrato complex...

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“…The highest species richness of autochthonous land flatworms worldwide has been documented in the southern hemisphere (Winsor et al., 1998), especially in areas originally covered by the south‐eastern Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest (Carbayo et al., 2002; Fick, Leal‐Zanchet, & Vieira, 2006; Fonseca et al., 2009; Leal‐Zanchet & Baptista, 2009; Sluys, 1998, 1999). This could, of course, be in part related to the existence of research teams interested in the group.…”

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“…Studies conducted in Brazil have shown that the community structure for terrestrial flatworms can be influenced by the vegetation type and by the degree of anthropic alteration (Carbayo et al., 2002; Fick et al., 2006; Fonseca et al., 2009). However, studies analyzing the effect of environmental factors have not found any of them as driver of the abundance or species composition of terrestrial planarians communities (Antunes, Leal‐Zanchet, & Fonseca, 2012; Baptista & Leal‐Zanchet, 2010; Boag, Jones et al., 1998; Boag, Yeated et al., 1998; Fick et al., 2006; Johns, Boag, & Yeates, 1998; Sluys, 1998; Winsor et al., 1998) with the only exception of pH and organic matter (see Baptista & Leal‐Zanchet, 2010).…”

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Hidden diversity in forest soils: Characterization and comparison of terrestrial flatworm’s communities in two national parks in Spain

Álvarez‐Presas

Mateos

Riutort

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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Terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, and Geoplanidae) belong to what is known as cryptic soil fauna of humid forests and are animals not easily found or captured in traps. Nonetheless, they have been demonstrated to be good indicators of the conservation status of their habitat as well as a good model to reconstruct the recent and old events affecting biodiversity. This is mainly due to their delicate constitution, their dependence on the integrity of their habitat, and their very low dispersal capacity. At present, little is known about their communities, except for some studies performed in Brazil. In this work, we analyze for the first time in Europe terrestrial flatworm communities. We have selected two protected areas belonging to the Red Española de Parques Nacionales. Our aims include performing a first study of the species richness and community structure for European terrestrial planarian species at regional and local scale. We evaluate the effect of type of forests in the community composition and flatworms’ abundance, but also have into account the phylogenetic framework (never considered in previous studies) analyzed based on molecular data. We find differences in the species composition among parks, with an astonishingly high diversity of endemic species in the Parque Nacional de Picos de Europa and an extremely low diversity of species in the Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido. These divergent patterns cannot be attributed to differences in physical variables, and in addition, the analyses of their phylogenetic relationships and, for a few species, their genetic structure, point to a more probable historical explanation.

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Towards an ecologically-sustainable forestry in the Atlantic Forest

Cited by 131 publications

References 24 publications

A Survey of mid and large bodied mammals in Núcleo Caraguatatuba, Serra do Mar State Park, Brazil

A Survey of mid and large bodied mammals in Núcleo Caraguatatuba, Serra do Mar State Park, Brazil

Spider community responds to litter complexity: insights from a small-scale experiment in an exotic pine stand

Hidden diversity in forest soils: Characterization and comparison of terrestrial flatworm’s communities in two national parks in Spain

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