Efeitos de borda sobre assembleias de Liquens corticícolas crostosos em área de mata atlântica, no nordeste do Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Dannyelly Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4418
• topic: Efeito de borda; Atributos funcionais; Mata Atlântica; Liquens; Ecologia florestal; Ecossistemas; Edge effect; Functional attributes; Atlantic Forest; Lichens.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

Forest fragmentation and habitat destruction are threatening many species worldwide. In addition to habitat loss, fragmentation decreases the number of species, changing the composition of communities, resulting in microclimatic changes, and also changes the tree mortality rates and increases the number of forest edges. The creation of edges causes a rapid response from the primary ecosystem, which is known as edge effect. Edge effects are many physical and biological phenomena associated with abrupt artificial limits of fragmented habitat. Understanding the responses of communities to environmental changes can be quite complex in species rich communities. Thus, some of these estimates can be based on common functional traits among different species. Lichens are especially sensitive to human impact on forest ecosystems, so it can be used as habitat quality indicators. Thus, this study aims to evaluate how the richness and composition of liquênicas species as well as their functional attributes, respond to anthropogenic edge and resulting forest within the forest fragmentation in a Atlantic Forest reminant. The study was conducted at the Refúgio de Vida Silvestre Mata do Junco (RVSMJ), in Capela, Sergipe. 617 samples were collectes, which were distributed among the areas of anthropogenic and inside edge. The identification work resulted in the identification of 102 species belonging to 40 genera and 14 families. There was a high similarity in species between anthropogenic and inside edge, showing that little has been the change in composition in the study sites. The results for species richness between edge and interior of the fragment showed a greater amount of corticicolous crostosos moss in the forest. The DAP and pH factors were directly related to the increase of species richness in the forest. It was shown that functional attributes lichen vary in anthropogenic edge and interior of forest fragments, and that these can be used as biomarkers of edge effect, since, lichens, as well as their functional features, are quite sensitive to changes environmental as those that occur in forest edges. Thus, our results showed some important trends for the understanding of edge effects on lichens, demonstrating the importance of including them in conservation strategies and contributing to their use in monitoring as indicator species of environmental change.