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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY
Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 11-20Publisher
INT INST ECOLOGY
DOI: 10.1590/S1519-69842008000100003
Keywords
ants; habitat corridors; forest fragmentation; reforestation; Atlantic forest
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In this paper we operated ant collections in three inland Atlantic forest fragments and in the neighboring Edmundo Navarro de Andrade State Forest (FEENA), an Eucalyptus plantation located in Rio Claro, interior of Sao Paulo State. We show that the ant communities of the native forest fragments are more similar among themselves than to the ant community of FEENA. Thus we evidence that, in addition to the clear difference in vegetation segment, other components of the biota (like ants) can be different between FEENA and the native forest fragments. Our results conveniently served as a basis to discuss the proposal of connecting FEENA to the three native forest fragments by a habitat corridor. These fragments are important to conservation purposes since they represent the biggest areas of native vegetation in the region.
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