Gustavo Accacio

Green areas in urban landscapes are under strong anthropogenic pressure, and, at the same time are fundamental to maintaining biodiversity, as they provide resources for many animal and plant species. Knowing these species is fundamental for its maintenance and conservation, and inventories are extremely important for monitoring fauna and conservin...

Butterflies - A Red Book with relevant information about each of the Butterflies of the Official List of Threatened of Extinction Brazilian Species

Some nymphalid butterflies obtain their nutrients from fermented fruits or plant saps. They compose a guild known as "fruit-feeding butterflies," a recognized biological indicator. We gathered a huge data set of fruit-feeding butterfly communities in a recent paper for Ecology. The data set contains 7,062 records of 279 species from 122 locations,...

Butterflies are one of the best-known insect groups, and they have been the subject of numerous studies in ecology and evolution, especially in the tropics. Much attention has been given to the fruit-feeding butterfly guild in biodiversity conservation studies, due to the relative ease with which taxa may be identified and specimens sampled using b...

Introduction This preliminary summary highlights some of the preliminary fi ndings of the ‘Deforestation Fronts in the Amazon Region: Current Situation and Future Trends’ report, part of the LAI’s ‘State of the Amazon’ report series. The summary describes the change in the dynamics of deforestation across the Amazon region over the period 2001-2012...

In the last decades, there has been a considerable increase in literature concerning ecological studies employing bait traps to capture butterflies. The growing interest in this kind of studies has given rise to a demanding group of young students and researchers looking for information and standardized protocols. Due to such growing interest in ba...

Recent developments have highlighted the importance of forest amount at large spatial scales and of matrix quality for ecological processes in remnants. These developments, in turn, suggest the potential for reducing biodiversity loss through the maintenance of a high percentage of forest combined with sensitive management of anthropogenic areas. W...

O capítulo propõe as diretrizes e áreas prioritárias para conservação com base nos dados disponveis de inventários de invertebrados no Estado de São Paulo

The reserve selection algorithms require a cost surface to define conservation priority areas. The usual procedure is to determine the cost of each planning unit based on the effect of some indicative variables (reserves, land uses, cities, etc) for conservation. The costs are weighted sums of intersection areas between a theme layer (e. g. pasture...

Atlantic forest is the fifth hotspot in the world ranking out of 25. 70% of Brazilian population lives in the forest’s former domain and less than 10% of the pristine vegetation is left. Hill chains and coastal plains of the “Serra do Mar” Ecoregion in South and Southeastern Brazil bear the largest forest fragments, many endemic species and the las...

Leposoma annectans Ruibal, 1952 is resurrected from synonymy with Leposoma scincoides (Spix, 1825). Both were obtained syntopically, along with new specimens of Leposoma nanodactylus, from remaining Atlantic forests of the State of Bahia. Leposoma annectans differs from Leposoma scincoides by having a posteriorly enlarged interparietal with slightl...

Borboletas são consideradas boas indicadoras da diversidade e perturbação dos ecossistemas florestais. Neste trabalho, borboletas frugívoras foram recenseadas com armadilhas de isca no bioma da floresta atlântica, em Una (BA, Brasil). A paisagem local é composta por remanescentes de floresta pluvial tropical interconectados, silviculturas e sistema...