Sample name: Sao Luiz do Paraitinga (Plot 5)

Reference: D. B. Ribeiro, R. Batista, P. I. Prado, K. S. Brown, and A. V. L. Freitas. 2012. The importance of small scales to the fruit-feeding butterfly assemblages in a fragmented landscape. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:811-827 [ER 119]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.2

WMT: 28.6

CMT: 9.5

MAP: 1340.0

Habitat comments: "The original vegetation of this area was dense humid forest. Over the past two centuries, forest fragmentation has drastically changed the landscape of the region. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, human activity in this landscape replaced native rain forest with ranching areas and small crop fields. Around 1760, massive coffee plantations were planted in this region, and deforestation rates increased. Defor- estation then accelerated with the decline of coffee plantations and the increase of dairy farming in the 1930s. Currently, most of the original vegetation is gone, and the remaining forest persists as small fragments surrounded by a matrix of crop fields, Eucalyptus plantations, ranching areas and abandoned pastures" (P. 813)

Life forms: butterflies

Site length: 30

Sampling methods: line transect,butterfly nets

Sample size: 696 captures or sightings

Years: 2004-2005

Sample number: 279

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-04-09 14:25:43

Modified: 2015-02-23 02:32:01