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TY - JOUR
T1 - Predation on artificial caterpillars following understorey fires in human‐modified Amazonian forests
AU - Rossi, Liana Chesini
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - Lees, Alexander Charles
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Ferreira, Joice
AU - França, Filipe M.
AU - Tavares, Paulo
AU - Pizo, Marco Aurélio
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Rossi, L. C., Berenguer, E., Lees, A. C., Barlow, J., Ferreira, J., França, F. M., Tavares, P., & Pizo, M. A. (2022). Predation on artificial caterpillars following understorey fires in human-modified Amazonian forests. Biotropica, 00, 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13097 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.13097 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2022/5/31
Y1 - 2022/5/31
N2 - Tropical forests are facing several impacts from anthropogenic disturbances, climate change, and extreme climate events, with potentially severe consequences for ecological functions, such as predation on folivorous invertebrates. Folivory has a major influence on tropical forests by affecting plant fitness and overall seedling performance. However, we do not know whether the predation of folivorous arthropods by birds, mammals, reptiles, and other arthropods is affected by anthropogenic disturbances such as selective logging and forest fires. We investigated the impacts of both pre-El Niño human disturbances and the 2015–2016 El Niño understorey fires on the predation of 4500 artificial caterpillars across 30 Amazonian forest plots. Plots were distributed in four pre-El Niño forest classes: undisturbed, logged, logged-and-burned, and secondary forests, of which 14 burned in 2015–16. We found a higher predation incidence in forests that burned during the El Niño in comparison with unburned ones. Moreover, logged-and-burned forests that burned again in 2015–16 were found to have significantly higher predation incidence by vertebrates than other forest classes. However, overall predation incidence in pre-El Niño forest disturbance classes was similar to undisturbed forests. Arthropods were the dominant predators of artificial caterpillars, accounting for 91.5% of total predation attempts. Our results highlight the resilience of predation incidence in human-modified forests, although the mechanisms underpinning this resilience remain unclear.
AB - Tropical forests are facing several impacts from anthropogenic disturbances, climate change, and extreme climate events, with potentially severe consequences for ecological functions, such as predation on folivorous invertebrates. Folivory has a major influence on tropical forests by affecting plant fitness and overall seedling performance. However, we do not know whether the predation of folivorous arthropods by birds, mammals, reptiles, and other arthropods is affected by anthropogenic disturbances such as selective logging and forest fires. We investigated the impacts of both pre-El Niño human disturbances and the 2015–2016 El Niño understorey fires on the predation of 4500 artificial caterpillars across 30 Amazonian forest plots. Plots were distributed in four pre-El Niño forest classes: undisturbed, logged, logged-and-burned, and secondary forests, of which 14 burned in 2015–16. We found a higher predation incidence in forests that burned during the El Niño in comparison with unburned ones. Moreover, logged-and-burned forests that burned again in 2015–16 were found to have significantly higher predation incidence by vertebrates than other forest classes. However, overall predation incidence in pre-El Niño forest disturbance classes was similar to undisturbed forests. Arthropods were the dominant predators of artificial caterpillars, accounting for 91.5% of total predation attempts. Our results highlight the resilience of predation incidence in human-modified forests, although the mechanisms underpinning this resilience remain unclear.
KW - Amazon
KW - arthropods
KW - dummy caterpillar
KW - El Niño
KW - forest degradation
KW - forest fires
KW - forest regeneration
KW - herbivory control
U2 - 10.1111/btp.13097
DO - 10.1111/btp.13097
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 754
EP - 763
JO - Biotropica
JF - Biotropica
SN - 0006-3606
IS - 3
ER -