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| Author(s): |
Camila Paula de Castilho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia |
| Defense date: | 2015-01-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Wesley Rodrigues Silva;
Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz;
Kátia Gomes Facure;
Simone Rodrigues de Freitas;
Adriano Pereira Paglia
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| Advisor: | Natália Oliveira Leiner; Wesley Rodrigues Silva |
| Abstract | |
Restoration ecology aims to recover degraded areas creating self-sustaining ecosystems. Different restoration techniques are being implemented nowadays but few studies are evaluating the response of the fauna community in relation to those restored areas. This study intended to evaluate the response of a terrestrial mammal community in a restored area located at Intermontes farm (337ha), in the city of Ribeirão Grande, SP. We investigate richness, abundance and composition of small, medium and large mammals in a restoration mosaic of Atlantic forest, including pasture areas with arboreal or arbustive regeneration where restoration where implemented, pasture areas with restoration, areas with natural regeneration and forest remnants. Once considering the trait-filter model, we intended to elucidate how habitat filters influenced species occurrence, considering vegetation complexity and food resources (fruits, arthropods, small and medium mammals depending on the species) as filters. To the small mammals assembly, as to the medium and large ones, generalist species predominated in the community, occurring in all different sample units. Specialized species were less abundant and were restricted in their occurrence. Small mammals were limited to the forest remnants or to those sample units with more complex vegetation. Specialist medium and large mammal species were present in different sample units, but were occasional. The habitat filter role for each species differed according to the ecological necessity of the species, revealing the importance of those aspects to species occurrence. The evaluation of the response of this mammal community to restoration showed that some habitat filters need to be present and maintained in order to guarantee the colonization and the permanence of terrestrial mammals (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/07889-8 - Community land mammals in a gradient of forest restoration: assessment of environmental descriptors on the richness and abundance of species |
| Grantee: | Camila Paula de Castilho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |