التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Diversity and habitat use by snakes and lizards in coastal environments of southernmost Brazil |
| المؤلفون: |
Santos, Maurício Beux dos, Oliveira, Mauro Cesar Lamim Martins de, Tozetti, Alexandro Marques |
| المصدر: |
Biota Neotropica. September 2012 12(3) |
| بيانات النشر: |
Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: |
2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
diversity, lizards, restinga, sand dunes, snakes |
| الوصف: |
This study examined species composition differences among snake and lizard assemblages from coastal dunes and restinga habitats in southernmost Brazil. Animals were collected between April 2009 and March 2010 using pitfall traps, artificial shelters, and time-constrained searches in grasslands areas susceptible to flooding. Species richness was higher in the restinga, but lower than the observed in other Brazilian biomes, possibly associated with more unstable microclimate conditions and low habitat complexity (vertical and horizontal distribution of the vegetation) in this habitat. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that the most abundant species of both snakes and lizards have fossorial habits. The assemblage of snakes is apparently mainly determined by abiotic characteristics of the habitat, while the assemblage of lizards, by vegetation cover. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article |
| وصف الملف: |
text/html |
| اللغة: |
English |
| تدمد: |
1676-0603 |
| DOI: |
10.1590/S1676-06032012000300008 |
| URL الوصول: |
http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032012000300008 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edssci.S1676.06032012000300008 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
SciELO |