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Avaliação da composição de invertebrados terrestres em uma área rural localizada no município de Campina Grande do Sul, Paraná, Brasil

2008; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/2175-7925.2008v21n1p65

2175-7925

Fernando Willyan Trevisan Leivas, Marta Luciane Fischer,

Insect and Pesticide Research

Evaluation of the composition of terrestrial invertebrates in a rural area of Campina Grande do Sul, Paraná, Brazil. The terrestrial invertebrates parti- cipate actively in the formation of the soil, and can be utilized as bioindi- cators of environmental disturbance. Thus, the objective of this research was to evaluate the fauna composition of terrestrial invertebrates, in a rural area of Campina Grande do Sul. The collection was carried out in a single fragm- ent of Araucária Forest, with structurally differentiated two- point samplings, through pitfall traps. A total of 1,776 invertebrates was captured, pertaining to Arthropoda, Annelida, Mollusca and Plathyhelmin- thes phyla, of which Arthropoda and Hexapoda were the most represen- tative groups. In Hexa- poda, eleven orders were registered, and of those, Coleoptera, Hymeno- ptera, Collembola and Diptera were the most abun- dant. Although the studied fragment had been under recuperation for about 10 years after approximately 40 years of antropic interference, and was therefore surroun- ded by areas utilized for farming, agriculture and highways, it contained different groups of terrestrial invertebrates on wide-ranging thropic levels, which were important for the spatial structure and the composition of litterfall of the fragment.