Navegando por Assunto "Biodiversidade - Monitoramento - Amazônia"

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Avaliação dos efeitos de monocultura de palma de dendê na estrutura do habitat e na diversidade de peixes de riachos amazônicos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-03-30) RUFFEIL, Tiago Octavio Begot; MONTAG, Luciano Fogaça de Assis; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4936237097107099
In the Amazon, oil palm plantation has been growing exponentially in recent years, altering the landscape natural characteristics and being a possible threat to biodiversity. This environmental impact extends to aquatic ecosystems, which because they are highly related to the adjacent vegetation, also suffer the impacts resulting from this agricultural action, such as habitat structure alterations, affecting the species distribution and ecosystem processes. Thus, studies to test the impact of this monoculture in the Amazon are important to support more efficient strategies for reducing impacts and maintaining biodiversity. Therefore, this thesis aims to answer the following questions: I) How the presence of oil palm cultivation around the streams affect their habitat structure and fish assemblage structure in relation to streams that drain through forested areas present along of this anthropogenic landscape? II) What are the effects of the substitution on landscape of primary forest on the oil palm in the habitat physical structure and on the taxonomic diversity of neotropical stream fish? III) How do the patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of Amazon stream fish assemblages responds to the habitat and landscape changes caused by oil palm plantation? To answer these questions, we sampled and analyzed 39 streams in the Eastern Amazon. For the habitat characterization, an extensive protocol of the evaluation was applied, resulting in 238 habitat variables, besides that, was used landscape characteristics based on the percentage of land uses adjacent to the streams. For fish collection was used hand net for six hours in each stream. Morphological measures and ecological information of fish species were taken for later calculation of the functional attributes related to the third chapter. The results showed that oil palm plantation affect the stream habitat structure, modifying mainly the channel morphology, the substrate structure and shelter availability, such as woods and roots, for fish assemblage. Consequently, the fish species distribution was affected, resulting in changes in the assemblage structure. On the other hand, no changes were registered in the functional structure of these assemblies. Finally, we showed that the oil palm plantation modifies the stream habitat natural characteristics, as well as the distribution of the species, however the functional structure of the fish assemblages is maintained.
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Efeito da monocultura da palmeira de dendê (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) sobre a fauna de primatas na Amazônia Oriental
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-04-25) MINEIRO, Ivo Gabriel Barros; OLIVEIRA, Ana Cristina Mendes de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1199691414821581
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Efeito da plantação de palmeira de dendê (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) sobre a fauna de carnívoros na Floresta Amazônica
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-07-28) OLIVEIRA, Geovana Linhares de; OLIVEIRA, Ana Cristina Mendes de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1199691414821581
The oil palm plantation has been considered a promising activity in tropical regions. Its expansion has caused great loss of tropical forest habitats and is considered a threat to biodiversity. Although most cultivated areas use previously deforested areas, the effects of this monoculture on the biodiversity of the Amazon region are still poorly understood. In this study we investigated the effect of oil palm plantation on the carnivorous fauna of the Amazon region. We performed the survey and monitoring of this group of mammals and related to some environmental metrics that would be related to the effects of monoculture on the recorded species. The metrics evaluated in this study were basal area of DAP categories 5-10cm and DAP> 10cm, perpendicular distance of the palm or forest matrix, distance of water bodies. There was an effect on the composition and abundance of carnivores, where the habitats differed on the basal area of DAP categories 5-10cm, and in the plantation areas this metric has no evidence. Although the plantation is not considered an impermeable matrix, the fauna of carnivores is not distributed in a homogenous way in the landscape. The most affected species were large carnivores and the generalist and opportunistic species, such as the middle predators, were benefited by the plantation. Our results show that the monitoring and strategies aimed at understanding how planting attributes influence the occurrence of these animals is of.
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Impactos da pastagem na estrutura taxonômica e funcional de peixes de riachos amazônicos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-01-19) CANTANHÊDE, Lorrane Gabrielle; MONTAG, Luciano Fogaça de Assis; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4936237097107099
In recent years, increasing economic development has promoted high rates of deforestation and land use change that negatively impact terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems around the world. Therefore, this study aimed to assess how the taxonomic structure and functional diversity of the stream fish assemblages of eastern Amazonia respond to impacts caused by pasture. We sought to answer the following questions: (i) What is the effect of pasture on the environmental characteristics of streams?; (ii) How do they affect the taxonomic structure and functional diversity of the ichthyofauna?; (iii) What functional attributes will be related to the environmental variables that characterize the streams that drain pasture and forest areas? The sampling were carried out between the years of 2012 and 2015, in the dry season, with 13 streams in forested areas and 13 streams in pasture areas. Through a PCA the set of environmental variables related to forest and pasture areas were verified. The taxonomic structure was compared among the environments through the richness, composition and abundance of species. Functional diversity was measured through the components of richness, evenness and functional divergence. The significance of the results of the indices with Student's t-test was tested. RLQ ordering analysis and the fourth-corner component were used to determine the relationships between environmental variables of each treatment and functional attributes. A higher number of artificial shelters and a higher percentage of riffles were found in pastures and the higher canopy cover formed by large trees (DAP> 0.3 m) in forest areas. It was verified that the pasture negatively affects the taxonomic structure and the functional divergence of the ichthyofauna, favoring the presence of generalist species. The highest amount of canopy cover benefited benthic species. Although the Brazilian Forest Code provide for the maintenance of riparian vegetation around the streams, grazing generated negative effects on the physical habitat of streams, taxonomic structure and functional divergence of assemblages of fish from streams in the Eastern Amazon. To conserve the diversity of fish in Amazonian streams, there should be stricter laws and increased enforcement regarding the maintenance of riparian vegetation.
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Movimentos sazonais de vertebrados terrestres entre florestas periodicamente alagadas e de terra firme
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-04-01) COSTA, Hugo Cardoso de Moura; PERES, Carlos Augusto da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9267735737569372
The flood pulse is the main factor structuring and differentiating the ecological communities of Amazonian unflooded (terra firme) and seasonally-flooded (várzea) forests as they require unique adaptations to survive the prolonged annual floods. Therefore, várzea and terra firme forests hammer out a spatio-temporal mosaic of resource availability, which may result in landscape scale seasonal movements of terrestrial vertebrates between adjacent forest types. Yet the lateral movements of terrestrial vertebrates between hydrologically distinct neighbouring forest types exhibiting staggered resource availability remains poorly understood, despite the important implications of this spatial dynamic for the ecology and conservation of forest wildlife. We examined the hypothesis of seasonal movements between two adjacent forest types at two contiguous sustainable-use forest reserves in Western Brazilian Amazonia, investigating the effects of water level, landscape and anthropogenic disturbance on the overall species richness, composition, and abundance of nine major vertebrate trophic guilds. Species richness differed in neighboring terra firme forests between the high-and low-water phases of the flood pulse and terra firme forests were more species rich than várzea forests. There were clear differences in species composition between both forest types and seasons. Generalized Linear Models showed that water level was the main factor explaining aggregate abundance of all species and three trophic guilds. Anthropogenic disturbance and geographic setting of camera trap stations, including distance to the nearest urban center, the number of residents of the nearest community, elevation and the surrounding area of várzea of each camera trap station, had a variety of effects on the terrestrial vertebrate assemblage. Overall vertebrate biomass increased with distance from the nearest urban center. Our results indicate that the persistence of viable populations of large terrestrial vertebrates adjacent to major Amazonian rivers requires large, wellconnected forest landscapes encompassing different forest types to ensure large-scale lateral movements by forest wildlife.