Potential impacts of the proposed Brazilian Forest Act on native butterflies

Author(s)

André Victor Lucci Freitas ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Biologia. Museu de Zoologia - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Biota Neotropica; v. 10, n. 4, p. 53-57, 2010-12-00.

Abstract

This paper discusses how the proposed changes in the Brazilian Forest Act could affect native butterflies. As showed, the main impacts include the reduction in the riparian forests (with consequent loss of connectivity) and the major changes that could take place in the large areas of montane forest. Moreover, changes in the regional landscape, with the reduction of permanently protected areas (Brazilian APPs) and the destruction of hilltop habitats could markedly affect extant butterfly assemblages, which have been severely modified in the past 500 years of deforestation and degradation in all Brazilian habitats. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 98/05101-8 - Lepidoptera of the State of São Paulo: diversity, distribution, resources, and use for analysis and environmental monitoring
• Grantee: Keith Spalding Brown Junior
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 00/01484-1 - Butterfilies as environmental indicators: monitoring with Nymphalidae (Eurytelinae and Satyrinae)
• Grantee: André Victor Lucci Freitas
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral