ASSEMBLEIAS DE FORMIGAS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) ASSOCIADAS A AMBIENTES DE UMA PROPRIEDADE RURAL DO EXTREMO OESTE CATARINENSE

• Autor(a) principal: Lutinski, Junir Antônio
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Lutinski, Cladis Juliana, Beling, Juliane Freitag, Busato, Maria Assunta, Corralo, Vanessa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbciamb.com.br/Publicacoes_RBCIAMB/article/view/63
• topic: agroecossistemas; agrotóxicos; mirmecofauna; conservação; riqueza.; agro ecosystems; agrochemicals; ant fauna; conservation; richness.

The conversion of natural environments into agricultural areas has led to habitatfragmentation and caused impacts on biological communities. This studyevaluated the richness and abundance of ant assemblages from differentenvironments within a small rural property. The study was conducted inDecember 2015 in the Palma Sola municipality, extreme western region of thestate of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The sampled environments included a permanentpreservation area, a forest fragment, a corn crop, a tobacco crop and a pinereforestation. Pitfall traps and manual collections were used. The observedrichness totaled 69 species. Only two species, Camponotus rufipes and Pheidolelignicola, occurred in the five environments sampled. Overall, 65.3% of thevariation in ants’ occurrence, according to the sampled environments, wasexplained by the principal component analysis (PCA) components. This studypresents new results on the ant diversity from rural areas, and may providepotential subsidies for management and conservation plans.