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INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 1-8出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12523
关键词
Deadwood; forest blowdowns; Passalidae; species succession; tree mortality
资金
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior CAPES/Brazil [001]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, CNPq/Brazil
- INCT Madeiras da Amazonia
- ATTO Project - German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01LB1001A, 01LK1602A]
- Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI/FINEP) [01.11.01248.00]
- Max Planck Society (MPG)
- CNPq [3096002017-0]
Natural disturbances, such as large-scale windthrows, have a positive impact on the diversity of saproxylic beetles in Central Amazonia, with higher richness and abundance of species in windthrown areas compared to old-growth forest. The tree mortality gradient created by windthrows promotes the diversity of Passalidae assemblages in the region.
Natural disturbances change environmental conditions that play an important role in controlling biodiversity. Large-scale windthrows (i.e. snapped and uprooted trees) promoted by convective systems cause severe tree mortality and can alter the dynamics of several insect taxons in forests. We assessed the effect of large-scale windthrows resulting from a squall line event in January 2005 on strictly saproxylic beetle assemblages in Central Amazonia. Using a paired sampling design comparing windthrown and old-growth forest, we investigated the responses of different metrics of Passalidae diversity (richness, abundance and composition). We found a higher richness and abundance of species in windthrown areas compared with old-growth forest, and a correlation between species composition and the tree mortality gradient. Differences in the richness and composition of the Passalidae assemblage between disturbed and old-growth forest suggest that the tree mortality gradient created by windthrows promotes the diversity of saproxylic beetles in Central Amazonia.
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