Fruit‐feeding Butterfly Communities are Influenced by Restoration Age in Tropical Forests

Currently, a large‐scale restoration project aims to restore around 15 million hectares of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. This will increase forest cover and connectivity among remnant sites as well as restore environmental services. Currently, studies on recovery of fauna in restored areas of the Atlan...

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Vydané v:Restoration ecology Ročník 22; číslo 4; s. 480 - 485
Hlavní autori: Sant'Anna, Clara L. B, Ribeiro, Danilo B, Garcia, Letícia C, Freitas, André V. L
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Malden, USA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.07.2014
Wiley
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Predmet:
Animal species
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
animals
Applied ecology
Biodiversity
Biological and medical sciences
Brazil
butterflies
Butterflies & moths
Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife
ecological indicator
ecological succession
Ecosystem services
Environmental degradation: ecosystems survey and restoration
Environmental restoration
Environmental services
fauna
Forestry
Fruits
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General forest ecology
Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology
Grasslands
habitats
high-diversity forest systems
Insecta
Invertebrates
Landscape ecology
landscapes
Lepidoptera
native species plantations
neotropical region
Rainforests
Recolonization
Reforestation
Species composition
species diversity
Tropical forests
Brazil
High forest
Insecta
Diversity
Frugivorous
Ecological succession
Ecological indicator
Tropical forest
native species plantations
Arthropoda
Lepidoptera
high-diversity forest systems
Ecological recovery
Invertebrata
Neotropical Region
Age
Community
Native species
ISSN:1061-2971, 1526-100X
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Shrnutí:Currently, a large‐scale restoration project aims to restore around 15 million hectares of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. This will increase forest cover and connectivity among remnant sites as well as restore environmental services. Currently, studies on recovery of fauna in restored areas of the Atlantic Forest are practically nonexistent. To address this knowledge vacuum, our study compares diversity patterns of fruit‐feeding butterflies in three forest areas with different restoration ages (11, 22, and 54 years), and uses a native forest area as reference. Results showed butterfly communities in maturing restored areas becoming more similar to the ones found in the native forest, with an increase in the proportional abundance of forest species, and a decrease of edge and grassland species. Moreover, we found a higher diversity among sites at the intermediate restoration age, with a community composed of both grassland and forest species. Butterfly species composition differed significantly among sites, showing interesting patterns of potential species replacement over time. Our results indicate that, although restored sites were located in a fragmented landscape, they provide suitable habitats for recolonization by fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages. Hence, restored areas can be considered important habitat for forest animal species, increasing local biodiversity and, possibly, restoring some of the ecosystem services provided by them.
Bibliografia:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12091
Brazilian Research Council-CNPq - No. 302585/2011-7
National Science Foundation, USA - No. DEB-1256742
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Table S1. Fruit-feeding butterflies recorded in restored and native areas of Atlantic Forest. Native Forest (NF); 54-year-old area (O); 22-year-old area (I); 11-year-old area (E).
PIBIC/CNPq
FAPESP - No. 07/50896-0; No. 07/50885-8
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ISSN:1061-2971
1526-100X
DOI:10.1111/rec.12091