Spatio-temporal distribution of calling male frogs in Morro do Diabo State Park (Southeastern Brazil): implications for conservation and management in a seasonally dry tropical forest
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2011
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Vasconcelos, Tiago da Silveira [UNESP]
Santos, Tiago Gomes dos [UNESP]
Rossa-Feres, Denise de Cerqueira [UNESP]
Haddad, Célio F. B. [UNESP]
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The aims of this study are to determine how anuran calling males are spatially and temporally distributed in the Morro do Diabo State Park (MDSP), and to test for indicator species in different breeding habitats. We found high species turnover among breeding habitats of different hydroperiods. Our results indicate that spatial partitioning is more important than seasonal occurrence in permitting species coexistence at MDSP. Indicator Species Analysis identified one species associated with a local stream, one species associated with permanent ponds, two species associated with temporary ponds, and three species associated with a semipermanent pond. Guilds of species do not appear to stratify their distributions throughout the year, since most species occur during the rainy and warm months and are thus temporally overlapping. The main conservation implication of our work is the need to protect the different areas of the park where these unique breeding habitats, and their associated anuran assemblages, are found.
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Atlantic Forest domain, conservation implications, Semideciduous Forest, phenology, similarity analysis
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South American Journal of Herpetology, v. 6, n. 2, p. 107-118, 2011.