Apresentamos aqui um breve histórico da Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure da Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP), Curitiba, Brasil, com ênfase na origem e na representatividade de seu recém-expandido acervo mirmecológico.... more
Apresentamos aqui um breve histórico da Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure da Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP), Curitiba, Brasil, com ênfase na origem e na representatividade de seu recém-expandido acervo mirmecológico. Listamos os principais eventos de expansão, as instalações, os grupos de pesquisa associados e as instituições colaboradoras, essenciais para o estabelecimento do acervo de formigas da DZUP. Finalmente, destacamos o exponencial crescimento deste acervo mirmecológico, que passou de quatro gavetas entomológicas e cerca de 1.000 exemplares depositados, em 2013, para, atualmente, cerca de 360 gavetas e 180.000 exemplares.
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Ants, an ecologically successful and numerically dominant group of animals, play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, nutrient recyclers, and regulators of plant growth and reproduction in most terrestrial ecosystems.... more
Ants, an ecologically successful and numerically dominant group of animals, play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, nutrient recyclers, and regulators of plant growth and reproduction in most terrestrial ecosystems. Further, ants are widely used as bioindicators of the ecological impact of land use. We gathered information of ant species in the Atlantic Forest of South America. The ATLANTIC ANTS data set–which is part of the ATLANTIC SERIES data papers–is a compilation of ant records from collections (18,713 records), unpublished data (29,651 records), and published sources (106,910 records; 1059 references), including papers, theses, dissertations, and book chapters published from 1886 to 2020. In total, the data set contains 153,818 ant records from 7,636 study locations in the Atlantic Forest, representing 10 subfamilies, 99 genera, 1,114 ant species identified with updated taxonomic certainty, and 2,235 morphospecies codes. Our data set reflects the heterogeneity in ant records, which include ants sampled at the beginning of the taxonomic history of myrmecology (the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and more recent ant surveys designed toaddress specific questions in ecology and biology. The data set can be used by researchers to develop strategies to deal with different macroecological and regional-wide questions, focusing on assemblages, species occurrences and distribution patterns. Furthermore, the data can be used to assess the consequences of changes in land use in the Atlantic Forest on different ecological processes. No copyright restrictions apply to the use of this data set, but we request that authors cite this data paper when using these data in publications or teaching events.
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The state of Pará in northern Brazil is located entirely within the Amazon Basin and harbors a great diversity of landscape and vegetation types that support high levels of biodiversity. Here, we provide a comprehensive inventory of ant... more
The state of Pará in northern Brazil is located entirely within the Amazon Basin and harbors a great diversity of landscape and vegetation types that support high levels of biodiversity. Here, we provide a comprehensive inventory of ant species and their distribution in Pará. This regional list is based on an extensive review of species records from published and unpublished sources covering a period of 134 years (1886–2020) and includes the five most representative ant collections in Brazil. In total, we documented 12 subfamilies, 90 genera, and 753 ant species, including 97 species recorded for the first time in Pará and 12 species newly reported in Brazil. Sampling effort across the state is highly uneven, and most records may be associated with research areas near the state capital, mining areas, hydroelectric dams, and research field stations run by the state or universities. In addition, our results suggest a strong bias in ant collection in Pará in terms of proximity of sampled sites to access routes, such as roads and rivers. We also found that species records were highly unevenly distributed based on areas of endemism within the Amazon, vegetation type, and protected areas within the state. Ant surveys are still lacking from most protected areas of Pará, and further sampling is urgently needed in view of the current trend of expansion of major infrastructure projects and natural resource harvesting within protected areas of Pará. Our database represents an extremely valuable and rich source of information for further studies on ant biodiversity and conservation in the Amazon Basin.
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Apresentamos aqui um breve histórico da Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure da Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP), Curitiba, Brasil, com ênfase na origem e na representatividade de seu recém-expandido acervo mirmecológico.... more
Apresentamos aqui um breve histórico da Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure da Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP), Curitiba, Brasil, com ênfase na origem e na representatividade de seu recém-expandido acervo mirmecológico. Listamos os principais eventos de expansão, as instalações, os grupos de pesquisa associados e as instituições colaboradoras, essenciais para o estabelecimento do acervo de formigas da DZUP. Finalmente, destacamos o exponencial crescimento deste acervo mirmecológico, que passou de quatro gavetas entomológicas e cerca de 1.000 exemplares depositados, em 2013, para, atualmente, cerca de 360 gavetas e 180.000 exemplares.