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Composição e riqueza de Odonata (Insecta) em riachos com diferentes níveis de conservação em um ecótone Cerrado-Floresta Amazônica
(Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, 2014-06) JUEN, Leandro; OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, José Max Barbosa de; SHIMANO, Yulie; MENDES, Thiago Pereira; CABETTE, Helena Soares Ramos
The removal or substitution of riparian vegetation causes disturbance in physical environment, seasonal water flow and water chemical quality. These modifications can cause decrease in species richness by local extinctions. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of disturbance in the physical environmental on the richness and species composition of Odonata adults in streams with different levels of conservation in the river Suiá-Missu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Modifications in the aquatic systems affected the Odonata community, probably because their ecophysiological and behavioral requirements of adults and larvae. Anisoptera species, which require sunny environments because of their body size, had higher species richness in environments with low plant cover. On the other hand, Zygoptera species, which generally inhabit streams with dense vegetation, presented a decrease in richness in disturbed environments, as a result high sunlight radiation and/or variations in temperature. Hence, in both suborders, environmental perturbations do not need to be severe to change species composition, indicating that ecosystem services could be lost, even with only partial alterations in physical environment.
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Emergence trap for the collection of exuviae and adult of Odonata
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2020) RESENDE, Bethânia Oliveira de; FERREIRA, Victor Rennan Santos; JUEN, Leandro; CABETTE, Helena Soares Ramos
Odonates have aquatic larval stages and terrestrial adults. The extreme change in habitat occupation during their life cycle means that combined collection methods, capable of providing data for both larvae and adults, are scarce and are often inefficient. Given this, we applied a method for the collection of specimens of both life phases using emergence traps. During fieldwork, 78 emergence events were recorded for 15 species. We also briefly discuss the emergence pattern of the recorded species. We believe the information obtained here provide an important contribution to the understanding of the ecology and basic biology of Neotropical odonate species, as well as helping to solve the taxonomic problems associated with the identification of larvae.