Does parasite fauna from amphibians respond to variations on integrity of riparian ecosystems?

• Grant number: 18/25554-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2019
• End date: April 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad
• Grantee: Aline Aguiar
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/09892-8 - Effects of PFAS and trematode infections on tadpoles under experimental conditions, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The riparian forests are very important for structure and performance of head streams, acting as a complex environment which can be considered a singular riparian ecosystem. Previous studies verified that riparian forests characterized by wide strip and conserved vegetation can indicate a stream with high level of integrity and better quality of water. The aim of this proposal is to study the diversity of parasites associated with amphibians that transit through six riparian ecosystems (fragments of riparian forests with head streams) which present different levels of integrity from North of Paraná State. We will evaluate if parasite fauna reflects the integrity of these ecosystems, testing the following hypothesis: integrated environments present high diversity, low abundance and a great proportion of parasite species with complex life cycle.These parameters can provide data on habitat integrity even before that some damage be detected in amphibians' populations, as well as qualify the potential of parasite fauna of amphibians as an indicator of integrity for the whole ecosystem. In this way, the novelty of this proposal is verify if variations of riparian vegetation features, as width and integrity of forest, influence the parasite fauna of amphibians, as well as to suggest the combined use of these knowledges on conservation initiatives.

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)

FRANCESCHINI, LIDIANE; AGUIAR, ALINE; ZAGO, ALINE CRISTINA; FADEL YAMADA, PRISCILLA DE OLIVEIRA; EBERT, MARIANA BERTHOLDI; DA SILVA, REINALDO JOSE. Three new species of Creptotrema (Trematoda, Allocreadiidae) with an amended diagnosis of the genus and reassignment of Auriculostoma (Allocreadiidae), based on morphological and molecular evidence. PARASITE, v. 28, OCT 13 2021. (16/07829-9, 18/25554-2)

AGUIAR, ALINE; MORAIS, DRAUSIO HONORIO; FIRMINO SILVA, LIDIANE A.; DOS ANJOS, LUCIANO ALVES; FOSTER, OTTILIE CAROLINA; DA SILVA, REINALDO JOSE. iodiversity of anuran endoparasites from a transitional area between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes in Brazil: new records and remark. Zootaxa, v. 4948, n. 1, p. 1-41, MAR 18 2021. (12/24945-1, 18/25554-2, 11/20186-6)