Distribuição de abundância e tamanho do corpo de invertebrados do folhiço em uma floresta de terra firme na Amazônia Central, Brasil

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2003-03-31

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Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia

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Abundace and body size distribution of invertebrates of leaf litter in Amazonian forest, Brazil. Based on 605 invertebrates sampled of the litter in an Amazonian Forest, some basic macroecological patterns for this assemblage were described. The relationship between abundance and body size, at logarithmic scale, was triangular, and the distribution of species was constrained in an asymmetric triangular envelope, that was tested using null model procedures in ECOSIM (P= 0,0002). The most abundant species were at an intermediated body size. The relationship between maximum abundance with different mean body size classes confirmed the Energetic Equivalent Rule (b = -1,069; t-0,75 = -2,13; P = 0.079). This way, species tend to consume energy from the community independent of their body size, since requirements are compensated by local population density.

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Abundance, Body size, Energetic equivalence rule, Invertebrates, Triangular pattern

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CUNHA, Hélida Ferreira da; DINIZ FILHO, José Alexandre Felizola; BRANDÃO, Divino. Distribuição de abundância e tamanho do corpo de invertebrados de folhiço de uma floresta de terra firme na Amazônia Central, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, Curitiba, v. 47, n.1, p. 59-62, mar. 2003.