@MASTERSTHESIS{ 2020:2083099791,
 	title = {Species turnover drives grasshopper’s community across different landscapes configuration},
 	year = {2020},
 	url = "http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/5015",
 	abstract = "Landscape modification and subsequent habitat loss is cited as a main driver of biodiversity
 loss in terrestrial ecosystems and drives of changes in species composition in Atlantic forest, mainly
 for species turnover. Here, we aimed to test the effect of landscape modification on grasshoppers’
 species composition in Atlantic Forest, hypothesizing that changes on grasshopper species
 composition would be resulted of species turnover rather than species nestedness. To test the
 hypothesis, we sampled grasshopper communities in sites with different landscape configuration
 along the Iguaçu National Park and then restrict spatial and environmental factors in the community
 analysis to assess only the effect of landscape modification on grasshoppers’ species composition.
 Our findings suggest that landscape modification affects grasshopper’s communities by species
 turnover. Here, we identified that the gradient of anthropic-forest-urbanized landscapes was the
 main anthropic factor acting on species turnover, beyond the naturally expected spatial and
 environmental turnover. Also, our results show that anthropic and urbanized sites benefit different
 species. This may indicate that natural grasshopper’s communities, and probably others groups, are
 in only 11% remaining of Atlantic forest, while others new and contrasting synanthropic
 communities are formed in with association with anthropic and urbanized areas. In the point-ofview of ecosystems functioning the alteration of grasshopper’s communities may lead loss of
 process and species associated with this group, such as plants and vertebrates. Therefore, for
 conservation and management actions it is necessary to maintain natural communities to the
 maximum in order to avoid possible changes in the entire regional ecosystem.",
 	publisher = {Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná},
 	scholl = {Programa de Pós-Graduação em Conservação e Manejo de Recursos Naturais},
 	note = {Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde}
}