[PDF] Top 20 Owl assemblages in fragments of atlantic forest in Brazil.

... abundance of owls at both EET, which is a small fragment, and PEIT, a large fragment, a re- sult driven mainly by the high abundance of ...degree of sensitivity (Menq & Anjos 2015). ... See full document

... Ribeiro, M.C., Metzger, J.P., Martensen, A.C., Ponzoni, F.J., Hirota, M.M., 2009. The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: how much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for ... See full document

... process of fragmentation is the Atlantic Forest (AF), which was identified as hotspot for conservation due to its status of extremely threatened and to the high rates of diversity and ... See full document

... considered in the correla- tion analysis revealed that the humidity, temperature and al- titude showed significant influence on the DCA axis 1, while the precipitation has not demonstrated this ...influence. ... See full document

... located in Rio de Janeiro State in Southeast Brazil, in the municipality of Paty do Alferes (22°15’–22°28’S and 43°12’–43°30’W), which borders the municipalities of Petrópolis, ... See full document

... collected in the dry season (August 2006) in three 20 m stretches in a 100 m section of each ...µm); in addition, 3 sweeps of 1m30s were carried out in each stream, one ... See full document

... Abstract: Forest fragments in the state of Minas Gerais contain a large number of Bromeliaceae genera, whose cisterns accumulate water and organic matter, providing shelter and food for ... See full document

... number of factors affect palm community at local and regional scale in tropical forests, such as soil physical and chemical characteristics, topography (slope and altitude), climate, hydrology and ... See full document

... nested in the three types of trap- nests ...types of substrates (χ² = ...28) of the total used. Of the 28 nests constructed in bamboo internodes, total mortality of ... See full document

... Este estudo não evidenciou efeito dos atributos dos fragmentos e da paisagem sobre a riqueza de espécies de Fig 2 Atributos da comunidade de árvores que in fl uenciaram signi fi cativa[r] ... See full document

... responses of stream macroinvertebrates to alterations in riparian vegetation such as deforestation and land use ...Alterations in riparian vegetation can directly influence macroinvertebrates, ... See full document

... pattern of species abundances observed in both reserves, in which a few species are very abundant (Geoplana ...planarian assemblages, in agreement with that previously reported ... See full document

... reduction in population size due to habitat fragmentation can lead to reduced intrapopulation genetic ...increase in genetically- based diseases (Shaffer, 1981; Soulé & Simberloff, 1986; Avise, 1992), ... See full document

... composition of mixed-species bird flocks in a fragmented landscape of the Atlantic Forest in southern ...species in 218 mixed-species ...groups of fragments ... See full document

... processes of anthropogenic occupation and land use may have produced these ...patterns of species distribution (species richness, composition, abundance and biomass) due to isolation and fragmentation ... See full document

... pool of species, but when analyzing forest sites separately, we found that tendril species predominated over twiners in six ...majority of species in an Atlantic Forest ... See full document

... locations in Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Figure 1). In each location, two fragments were sampled (totaling 10 fragments): a large one (>1,000 ha) and a small one (10-30 ha) (Table ... See full document

... the forest floor and catch prey from the ground (Willis, 1992; Ridgely & Tudor, ...abundance of large trees, gaps and bamboo thickets also characterize the ...descriptions of Whitney et al. ... See full document

... differences in sampling effort and habitat characteristics, they do provide an important baseline for the quantification of a region’s biodiversity (Gomes et ...number of species recorded in ... See full document

... groups of mites parasitize ...range of arthropods to feed (Welbourn, ...range of ages (from Eocene) and it has been proved due to a huge number of Leptus mite species preserved as amber ... See full document