Estrutura espacial de comunidades de anuros de duas regiões fisiográficas do bioma Pampa

In this study, we sampled two anuran communities in two physiographic regions of the Pampa biome, Serra do Sudeste and Depressão Central, were made monthly campaigns during the period between September 2011 and August 2012 where there were registered 25 species of frogs. Scinax granulatus, Physalaem...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Lipinski, Victor Mendes
Format: master thesis
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2013
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repository:Manancial - Repositório Digital da UFSM
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufsm.br:1/5299
Online Access:http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/5299
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Heterogeneidade
Anurofauna
Campos nativos
Poças
Ecologia de comunidades
Heterogeneity
Native grasslands
Puddles
Community ecology
CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS
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Summary:In this study, we sampled two anuran communities in two physiographic regions of the Pampa biome, Serra do Sudeste and Depressão Central, were made monthly campaigns during the period between September 2011 and August 2012 where there were registered 25 species of frogs. Scinax granulatus, Physalaemus gracilis e Pseudis minuta were the most abundant species in the Serra do Sudeste, while Dendropsophus minutus, D. sanborni and Scinax squalirostris were the most abundant of the Depressão Central. We recorded 15 species of frogs in the larval stage and four reproductive modes classified as generalists. Ordination analysis showed a segregation among the two physiographic regions, related to anurofauna with a difference of 65% between them. The influence of environmental descriptors and physicochemical variables of water in the structure of the two communities showed that the set of variables, pH, number of extracts of emergent vegetation and temperature were important in structuring the community of Depressão Central, as dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity number of extracts of emergent vegetation, hydroperiod and percentage of vegetation cover were important factors structuring the community of Serra do Sudeste. However the abundance and richness of the Serra do Sudeste community showed no significant relation with the variables tested and the distance between the puddles did not influence the structure of both communities.