Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2016 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Martins, Fernanda Alves
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| Orientador(a): |
Marco Júnior, Paulo De
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| Banca de defesa: |
Marco Júnior, Paulo De,
Almeida Neto, Mário de,
Nabout, João Carlos,
Zuanon, Jansen Alfredo Sampaio,
Tôrres, Natália Mundim |
| Tipo de documento: |
Tese
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Universidade Federal de Goiás
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Evolução (ICB)
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| Departamento: |
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas - ICB (RG)
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| País: |
Brasil
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| Palavras-chave em Português: |
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| Área do conhecimento CNPq: |
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| Link de acesso: |
http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5933
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Resumo: |
The interactions between the organisms and their physical environment and among the organisms themselves occur at definite spatial scales, and give rise to spatial patterns that may be assessed to a better understanding of these relationships. Thus, in order to understand the variation in species diversity, it is necessary to link the scale in which the variation is measured to the scale in which the processes operate. The main objective of this work is thus to identify the factors that best explain the diversity of dragonflies’ tropical assemblages and determine how they interact across scales. The work is based on the Community Assembly conceptual framework that relies on the idea that community assembly is affected by spatial processes hierarchically arranged. Dragonflies are good models because they comprise two distinct groups of species regarding to body size, thermoregulatory responses and dispersal ability. Due to their ecological differences, they may respond differently to local as well as to regional environmental conditions. Despite of their ecological differences, our results suggest that richness patterns for both groups are affected by the same factors, i.e., they respond in a similar fashion to the analysed factors. In regional scales, environmental filters, such as temperature seasonality, affect species richness. The abundance is the main predictor of local species richness. Nevertheless, the assemblages’ compositional patterns are different. Comparatively, Zygoptera (low-dispersal group) assemblages are more affected by local scale processes than Anisoptera. Our results suggest a better integration of metacommunity theory (focused on the role of dispersal shaping different spatial dynamics in the assemblages) and community assembly theory. The fact that the dispersal processes is more important at smaller scales indicate the potential importance of occupancy dynamics at this scale, calling for explicitly incorporating dispersal, affecting the spatial dynamics at different spatial scales. Furthermore, our results suggest that rather than being mutually exclusive, neutral and deterministic processes acts jointly on community assembly. |
