Modeling movement in different matrix structure and composition for ecological profiles in Atlantic Rainforest

• Grant number: 12/02207-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Rafael Dias Loyola
• Grantee: Ludmila Maria Rattis Teixeira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Atlantic Rainforest is structurally discontinuous and its configuration influences the dynamics of populations inhabiting the remaining habitat patches, affecting organisms move through the matrix. We will create, based on this premises, models to test the hypothesis that kinds of matrix brings its own characteristics and that this set of characteristics can generate opportunities, resistances and impossibilities to an organism cross kinds of matrix. We intended to meet movement patterns for theoretical groups of species constructed from real data using species occurrence simulation models. Such theoretical groups, called ecological profiles or eco profiles, will be created based on morphological and behavioral individuals' characters (e.g. body size, chance to meet a sexual partner, preference for ecosystem, area needs and movement ability). The movement ability of a species through a kind of matrix depends on intrinsic ability of this species scroll through some distance until reaching another patch. We can measure such movement by dependent movement parameters of different eco profiles and then by matrix quality dependent movement. We will assess different matrix characteristics related on different land uses and the size and isolation patch of each landscape. This kind of knowledge can be used, conservatively, like an inherent ability indicator of matrix movements of different species, which can be used in other works, including natural environmental conservation and restoration planning. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RATTIS, LUDMILA; DOBROVOLSKI, RICARDO; TALEBI, MAURICIO; LOYOLA, RAFAEL. Geographic range-scale assessment of species conservation status: A framework linking species and landscape features. PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 16, n. 2, p. 97-104, APR-JUN 2018. (12/02207-9)