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Tolerant semiaquatic bugs species (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) are associated to pasture and conventional logging in the Eastern Amazon

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The aim of the present study was to evaluate how environments modified by conventional logging (CL), reduced-impacted logging (RIL), and pastures (PST) surrounding streams affect environmental characteristics and semiaquatic bugs assemblages (Gerromorpha), in the eastern Amazon. The following hypotheses were tested: (i) environmental heterogeneity in streams is lower in areas with more intensive practices (e.g. CL and PST); (ii) species richness and abundance are also lower in streams located in areas with more intensive practices, while more preserved areas have higher richness and abundance; and (iii) species composition shall be affected by changes in forestry practices, thus causing differences between treatments according to species tolerances. We observed that although PST and CL have higher environmental heterogeneity and alpha diversity, respectively, these treatments are associated with the presence of tolerant species and are different from the forest regarding composition (species identity) and species distribution pattern. On the other hand, forest and RIL areas did not have differences regarding habitat characteristics, environmental heterogeneity, alpha diversity, composition and species distribution pattern. This indicates that RIL can maintain a considerable part of habitat integrity and Gerromorpha assemblage composition.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to 33 Forest, Cikel LTDA, and IFT Brazil for their help in field logistics. We also thank PROPESP/UFPa (Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal do Pará), for providing for the translation of this paper through PAPQ (Programa de Apoio à publicação qualificada) public notice 01/2018. Thanks are due to CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), for granting a PhD scholarship to APMG (process 1747544/2017-9) and to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa—CNPq), for funding the project “Re Resilience time of aquatic communities after selective logging in Eastern Amazonia” under Universal tender 14/2011 (process 481015/2011-6) and for granting the PhD scholarship to EJC (process 165908/2014-9), and productivity scholarship to LJ (process 304710/2019-9). We also thank all the team that participated in the field data sampling.

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Guterres, A.P.M., Cunha, E.J. & Juen, L. Tolerant semiaquatic bugs species (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) are associated to pasture and conventional logging in the Eastern Amazon. J Insect Conserv 25, 555–567 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-021-00316-9

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