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TY - JOUR
T1 - Responses of leaf-litter ant communities to tropical forest wildfires vary with season
AU - Silveira, Juliana M.
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Andrade, Rafael B.
AU - Mestre, Luiz A. M.
AU - Lacau, Sebastien
AU - Cochrane, Mark A.
N1 - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=TRO The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Journal of Tropical Ecology, 28 (5), pp 515-518 2012, © 2012 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Fire is an important land-management tool in tropical forest landscapes. However, these fires sometimes escape into surrounding forests (Uhl & Buschbacker 1985), and are one of the most severe disturbances threatening tropical forest biodiversity (Barlow et al 2006). These forest fires have become more frequent over the last decades due to the combined effect of selective logging, fragmentation and abnormal droughts that increase the flammability of forests, and agriculture expansion that brings the ignition sources (Aragão & Shimabukuro 2010).
AB - Fire is an important land-management tool in tropical forest landscapes. However, these fires sometimes escape into surrounding forests (Uhl & Buschbacker 1985), and are one of the most severe disturbances threatening tropical forest biodiversity (Barlow et al 2006). These forest fires have become more frequent over the last decades due to the combined effect of selective logging, fragmentation and abnormal droughts that increase the flammability of forests, and agriculture expansion that brings the ignition sources (Aragão & Shimabukuro 2010).
KW - Mato Grosso
KW - FIRE
KW - RAIN-FOREST
KW - Winkler funnels
KW - DISTURBANCE
KW - SAVANNA
KW - SABAH
KW - Formicidae
KW - multidimensional scaling
KW - DIVERSITY
KW - tropical forest
KW - Brazil
KW - ABUNDANCE
KW - ant diversity
KW - community structure
KW - Amazon
KW - disturbances
U2 - 10.1017/S026646741200051X
DO - 10.1017/S026646741200051X
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 515
EP - 518
JO - Journal of Tropical Ecology
JF - Journal of Tropical Ecology
SN - 0266-4674
IS - 5
ER -