Species-area relationship in earth mounds with different historical disturbance

Authors

  • Cibele de Cássia Silva Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba, Rodovia BR 354, km 310 (a 1.300m), CEP 38810-000, Rio Paranaíba, Minas Gerais, Brasil. E-mail: cibele.silva@ufv.br
  • Daniel Meira Arruda Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Federal de Viçosa.
  • Rúbia Santos Fonseca Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Centro de Estudos Superiores de Caxias, Departamento de Química e Biologia, Morro do Alecrim, CEP 65604-370, Caxias, Maranhão, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/rbn.v13i1.36705

Keywords:

Island biogeography, Cerrado conservation, functional groups, degraded vegetation, savanna park

Abstract

Anthropogenic activities promote alterations in abiotic characteristics of the environment, causing changes in one of the most consistent ecology patterns, the species-area relationship. Weaimed to assess the relationship between richness/abundance of plants and mounds area in floodplaincampos de murundus (seasonally flooded gramineous fields with scattered mounds) surrounded byanthropogenic matrix. Furthermore, we evaluated how human activities affect these relationships and the dispersion syndromes in the community. We sampled two different campos de murundus, both surrounded by monoculture: one impacted (CMI) and another protected (CMII). We found reduction in the number of species with increasing mound area in the CMI and opposite relationship in CMII. The abundance was positively related to mound area in both sites. Regarding the dispersion syndrome, greater diversity was found in CMI. The area was a determining factor of richness patterns and abundance of plants on mounds, even in ecosystems surrounded by anthropogenic matrix. Once these sites are under the same weather conditions and show similar structure, the negative species-area relationship found in CMI indicates that anthropogenic pressure in this field has been effective in eliminating species,in disagreement with the expected pattern of increased number of species for natural communities.

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Cibele de Cássia Silva, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba, Rodovia BR 354, km 310 (a 1.300m), CEP 38810-000, Rio Paranaíba, Minas Gerais, Brasil. E-mail: cibele.silva@ufv.br

Cibele de Cássia SilvaBacharela em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Conservação da Biodiversidade - UFV/CRPMestranda em Ecologia e Evolução - UFG

Daniel Meira Arruda, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Federal de Viçosa.

Sou bacharel em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (2009) e mestre em Botânica pela Universidade Federal de Viçosa (2012). Atualmente sou doutorando do PPG em Botânica da UFV, onde desenvolvo trabalhos de ecologia de vegetações. Meus interesses acadêmicos compreendem a fitogeografia, ecologia de paisagem e a interação solo-vegetação.

Rúbia Santos Fonseca, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Centro de Estudos Superiores de Caxias, Departamento de Química e Biologia, Morro do Alecrim, CEP 65604-370, Caxias, Maranhão, Brasil

Possui graduação em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros - Unimontes(2006). Mestrado (2009) e Doutorado (2013) em Botânica pela Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Trabalha com ecologia vegetal com enfoque na ecologia reprodutiva de comunidades vegetais brasileiras .

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2016-12-10

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DE CÁSSIA SILVA, C.; MEIRA ARRUDA, D.; SANTOS FONSECA, R. Species-area relationship in earth mounds with different historical disturbance. Revista de Biologia Neotropical / Journal of Neotropical Biology, Goiânia, v. 13, n. 1, p. 250–260, 2016. DOI: 10.5216/rbn.v13i1.36705. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/RBN/article/view/36705. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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