Journal
BRAGANTIA
Volume 79, Issue 1, Pages 120-133Publisher
INST AGRONOMICO
DOI: 10.1590/1678-4499.20190179
Keywords
ecological modelling; arthropods communities; multifractality; generalized dimension; singularity spectrum
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- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico do Maranhao [BM-01267/15, BEPP-01301/15, UNIVERSAL-00735/15, BEST-EXT-00360/19]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior -Brasil [001]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico [429354/2016-9, 307619/2016-8, 103961/2018-6]
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The objective of this study was to determine the multifractality of diversity indexes of edaphic fauna in areas with natural vegetation and in agricultural systems. Biological sampling was carried out in seven treatments (millet, maize, soybean, eucalyptus, preserved cerrado, disturbed cerrado and pasture), containing 130 pitfall traps, distributed in transects with 3 m of spacing between sampling points, totaling 390 m. The multifractal analysis was determined based on the moment method, where estimates such as the capacity dimensions, entropy and the correlation of the diversity indexes were calculated. The soybean area had greater Shannon diversity (2.69), however it had smaller abundance of individuals. The partition functions were adjusted with coefficient of determination > 0.90. The difference between D-10-D-10, ranged from 0.080 to 1,707 for Pielou equitability in soybean cultivation, for richness in the area under the cultivation of eucalyptus. The singularity spectra expressed graphs with different degrees of heterogeneity for the soil fauna indexes, and the richness expressed the best structure. The area cultivated with soybean had a monofractal tendency, due to the homogeneous distribution of individuals of the edaphic fauna along the transect. The fractal analysis provided the description of patterns of variability that are not detected by classical methods.
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