[PDF] Top 20 Richness and structure of ant assemblies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Atlantic forest in southern Brazil

... complexity of the ...indicators of environmental quality. The objective of this study was to evaluate ant diversity in areas with different land use histories and thus, within ... See full document

... list of ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) recorded in Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, with a discussion of research advances and ...list of ... See full document

... organization and the dynamics of the reproductive system of ...competition, and eating habits are scarce, except for a brief report on predatory habits and foraging of this ... See full document

... stratum and forest stage were weakly related and that there was little species convergence among the communities of the three successional ...successional forest is a unique plant ... See full document

... association of insect fauna with forest remnants may explain the occurrence of ant genera, such as Cephalotes, Myrmelachista and Pseudomyrmex, whose species need shelter and ... See full document

... the Atlantic Rainforest in southeastern Brazil and ant communities were studied with the objective of quantifying the ant richness and abundance in ... See full document

... vertical structure of bat assemblages, and how it influences community com- ...goal of this study was to analyze the vertical structure of an assemblage of bats in ... See full document

... occurrence of rare species of ants in the LG, for example, Stegomyrmex olindae, so far found only in humid and mature forests [56], Cryptomyrmex longinodus (first occurrence in ... See full document

... squares and areas outside the houses from the Alto Tietê, the dominant species is ...megacephala and L. humile Mayr, 1868 (Haskins; Haskins, 1965) and between ...presence of L. neotropicum ... See full document

... Orchid-bee richness in this work was higher using ar- omatic traps, when compared to other assessments per- formed in Brazil (Rebêlo and Garófalo, 1997; Santos and Sofia, 2002; ... See full document

... for southern Brazil, several studies have pointed out ambiguities in the predictions from these models [12, ...cool and dry weather during the glaciations allowed grassland ecosystems ... See full document

... an ant assemblage in the tropics, and despite repre- senting only a 5-day snapshot, relevant findings ...species richness was found at the study site, and males of the sam- pled ... See full document

... physical structure of the environment and have considerable influence on the distribution of animal species at a range of spatial scales (Tews et ...Habitat structure is an ... See full document

... Populations of A. fasciatus from reservoirs and floodplain lakes have been found omnivore feeders with a tendency to insect feeding (Esteves and Galetti ...1995) and zooplankton feeding ... See full document

... processes of anthropogenic occupation and land use may have produced these ...mechanisms and processes may be associated with patterns of species distribution (species richness, ... See full document

... on ant species recorded in the Caatingas available in literature were compiled from dis- tinct sources: taxonomic reviews (Kempf 1975; Brandão 1990; Mackay 1993; De Andrade & Baroni-Urbani 1999; ... See full document

... advance of urbanization and agricultural frontiers has adverse effects on the occurrence of species due to the habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, which results in a dramatic ... See full document

... number of tunnelers species compared to the other functional ...common in tropical forests and seems to be related to the diversity of Scarabaeinae beetles in the Neo- tropical region ... See full document

... Garcia and Marcos Di-Bernardo (in me- morian) for the assistance with identification of the species; Marcio Martins and Cinthia ...sion of the manuscript; Célio F. B. Haddad for ... See full document

... genetic structure of these two sympatric species of rodents, sampled from the same set of localities along a 58 km altitudinal gradient with different types of ...consisted of ... See full document