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Entre os diferentes tipos de organismos da macrofauna do solo, distribuídos em diversos tipos de habitats, com variados hábitos alimentares e ciclos de vida, alguns são capazes de responder rapidamente às alterações ambientais e, por isso, considerados bons indicadores do funcionamento dos ecossistemas. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar o efeito dos seguintes estádios sucessionais de Floresta Estacional Semidecidual Submontana do domínio ecológico da Mata Atlântica: floresta secundária estádio inicial (FSEI), floresta secundária estádio médio (FSEM), floresta secundária estádio avançado (FSEA) e uma área de pasto misto manejado (PMM) sobre a densidade, diversidade e composição da comunidade da macrofauna edáfica em duas épocas do ano, no município de Pinheiral (RJ). Para amostragem da macrofauna, foram retiradas oito amostras da serapilheira e da camada superficial (0-10 cm) do solo pelo método recomendado pelo programa Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility (TSBF), com adaptações. Predominaram Isoptera, Formicidae e Oligochaeta em FSEI, FSEM e FSEA e Formicidae e Oligochaeta em PMM. Não houve diferença significativa na densidade da macrofauna edáfica entre as áreas. Os maiores valores dos estimadores de diversidade utilizados (equabilidade de Pielou, riqueza total e média) foram encontrados em FSEA. Os valores de riqueza total mostraram aumento gradual de acordo com o estádio de sucessão, desde PMM até FSEI. Constatou-se maior número de indivíduos no solo do que na serapilheira em todas as áreas de floresta, nas duas épocas. Pela análise de componentes principais (ACP) realizada para os períodos seco e chuvoso, foi possível identificar maiores diferenças na composição das comunidades entre os estádios sucessionais para o período chuvoso. Nesta época, os estádios FSEM e FSEA estiveram associados a uma maior diversidade de invertebrados saprófagos e predadores do que PMM e FSEI, demonstrando influência do processo sucessional sobre a comunidade da macrofauna do solo. Among a number of organisms that constitute soil macrofauna communities, distributed in different types of habitats, with varied foraging habits and life cycles, some are capable of a rapid response to environmental changes. These organisms are considered efficient indicators of the well-functioning of ecosystems. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of the following succession stages of a seasonal semidecidous submontane forest of the Atlantic Forest domain: Secondary Forest Initial Stage - SFIS, Medium Stage - SFMS, Advanced Stage - SFAS and a Mixed and Managed Pasture - MMP on the density, diversity and composition of the edaphic macrofauna community, in two seasons, in the Pinheiral county (Rio de Janeito state, southeastern Brazil). The macrofauna assessment was carried out by collecting eight samples of litter and superficial soil layer (0-10 cm) using the method recommended by "Tropical Soil Biology Fertility Programme" (TSBF), with modifications. The predominant taxonomic groups were Isoptera, Formicidae and Oligochaeta in SFIS, SFMS and SFAE and Formicidae and Oligochaeta in MMP. No significant difference of edaphic macrofauna density between the areas was observed. The highest diversity estimator values: Pielou's evenness index, total and average richness were observed in SFAE. The total richness values increase gradually from MMP towards SFAE. A higher number of individuals colonized soil in relation to the litter microhabitat in all forest areas, in the two sampling seasons. The principal component analysis (PCA) performed separately for the dry and wet season indicated greater differences of the macrofauna communities between succession stages in the wet season. In this season, the stages SFMS and SFAE were associated to a higher saprophagous and predator diversity than in MMP and SFIS. These results demonstrate the influence of the succession stage on the soil macrofauna community.

A existência de diferentes tipologias vegetais na planície aluvial do médio Araguaia apresenta um padrão de distribuição determinado pela dinâmica fluvial do canal e pelas características morfossedimentares das unidades que formam a planície aluvial. O objetivo deste trabalho foi discutir como a dinâmica fluvial atua nos processos de sucessão vegetacional, considerando os processos de erosão e deposição, dentro de um curto intervalo temporal, e a dinâmica de cheias. O processamento de informações dos mapas das unidades morfossedimentares da planície e das unidades vegetacionais resultou no mapa de unidades morfovegetacionais. Verificou-se que as unidades vegetacionais se distribuem e compõem, de modo diversificado, um mosaico vegetacional pela planície. Entre 1965 e 1997, a ação dos processos erosivos, nas margens do canal que consomem a planície aluvial, tem removido principalmente vegetações arbóreas de grande porte, e as altas taxas de sedimentação contribuem para a formação da unidade geomorfológica mais jovem da planície, que é colonizada, sobretudo, por espécies herbáceas., The existence of different vegetable typologies in the alluvial plains of the middle Araguaia presents a pattern of distribution determined by the fluvial dynamic of the channel and the type of sediments that form different units of the alluvial plain. The purpose of this study was to discuss how the fluvial processes acts in vegetation succession, considering the erosive and sedimentary activities within a short period of time, as well as the flood dynamic. The combined information from morphosedimentary unit maps of the alluvial plain and the vegetation units allows the elaboration of the map of morphosedimentary units. It was possible to verify that the vegetation units were distributed in a diversified way along the alluvial plain, composing a vegetation mosaic. Between 1965 and 1997, the action of the erosive processes in the banks of the channel that consume the alluvial plain removed in particular large arboreal vegetation types, and the high rates of sedimentation contribute to the formation of the most recent geomorphologic unit of the plain, which is being colonized especially by herbaceous species., Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo

The existence of different vegetable typologies in the alluvial plains of the middle Araguaia presents a pattern of distribution determined by the fluvial dynamic of the channel and the type of sediments that form different units of the alluvial plain. The purpose of this study was to discuss how the fluvial processes acts in vegetation succession, considering the erosive and sedimentary activities within a short period of time, as well as the flood dynamic. The combined information from morphosedimentary unit maps of the alluvial plain and the vegetation units allows the elaboration of the map of morphosedimentary units. It was possible to verify that the vegetation units were distributed in a diversified way along the alluvial plain, composing a vegetation mosaic. Between 1965 and 1997, the action of the erosive processes in the banks of the channel that consume the alluvial plain removed in particular large arboreal vegetation types, and the high rates of sedimentation contribute to the formation of the most recent geomorphologic unit of the plain, which is being colonized especially by herbaceous species. A existência de diferentes tipologias vegetais na planície aluvial do médio Araguaia apresenta um padrão de distribuição determinado pela dinâmica fluvial do canal e pelas características morfossedimentares das unidades que formam a planície aluvial. O objetivo deste trabalho foi discutir como a dinâmica fluvial atua nos processos de sucessão vegetacional, considerando os processos de erosão e deposição, dentro de um curto intervalo temporal, e a dinâmica de cheias. O processamento de informações dos mapas das unidades morfossedimentares da planície e das unidades vegetacionais resultou no mapa de unidades morfovegetacionais. Verificou-se que as unidades vegetacionais se distribuem e compõem, de modo diversificado, um mosaico vegetacional pela planície. Entre 1965 e 1997, a ação dos processos erosivos, nas margens do canal que consomem a planície aluvial, tem removido principalmente vegetações arbóreas de grande porte, e as altas taxas de sedimentação contribuem para a formação da unidade geomorfológica mais jovem da planície, que é colonizada, sobretudo, por espécies herbáceas.

This paper is a part of the studies on the Coleoptera fauna from Vila Velha, Ponta Grossa, Parana gathered through malaise and pitfall traps in sites with different floristic conditions. The present study deal with the data of pitfall trap captures, installed close to the malaise traps. The data were obtained weekly (52 samples), from September 1999 to August 2000. This survey was carried out on five areas, three of them with different plant succession stages (initial, intermediate, and advanced). The other two sites were: in Araucaria angustifolia plantation area, with the understory invaded by native forest vegetation and in the edge area. In the last one, two pitfall traps were installed, one inside the forest and other in the field vegetation. The Coleoptera communities were analyzed according the abundance, family richness, and the floristic conditions of the sites. The total of specimens collected was 13,093 belonging to 35 families. The most abundant site was the one in initial stage of succession; the abundance was lowest in the edge area. The beetle faunal composition of the five sites, including all the families, were not significantly different. However, when listed only the seven dominant families, the results showed the outside edge fauna composition significantly different from the other sites. Among the most abundant families in the Vila Velha litter are Staphylinidae, Ptiliidae, Nitidulidae, Scarabaeidae, Scolytidae, Hydrophilidae and Endomychidae, eventually substituted by Latridiidae, Corylophidae, Curculionidae, Carabidae and Histeridae. Several comparisons were made with the data from malaise and pitfall traps data obtained in Vila Velha, and from other studies in several world regions. From these comparisons was possible to highlight: the beetle family richness is higher when captured by malaise than pitfall trap; the family taxonomic compositions in the litter from several regions of the world are more similar among themselves than the taxonomic compositions from malaise captures in the same region; a small number of beetle families (five to seven) is liable by approximately 60% of the total abundance in the malaise, and about 90% in the litter; the majority litter faunal surveys showed non-herbivorous families as dominants, while in the malaise trap the herbivorous families are dominants; there are evidences that certain taxa are substituted by others of the same trophic group by ecologic reasons when in the same region, and by zoogeographic reasons in different regions.

The Coleoptera fauna of Parque Estadual de Vila Velha, Ponta Grossa, Parana, was sampled during 52 weeks using malaise traps (from September 1999 to August 2000). Five different sites were selected according to floristic conditions: one site in initial stage of vegetacional succession; one in intermediate stage; one in advanced stage (recognized as a mature forest); one with an Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze plantation, invaded by native forest vegetation; and a fifth site in the edge area. The Coleoptera communities from the five sites were analyzed based on abundance and family richness. The total of specimens collected was 10,822 belonging to 64 families. The most abundant sites were those in initial and intermediate stages of plant succession; the abundance in the edge area was the lowest. The family richness is not related with the level of preservation of the sites. The beetle community structures of the five sites were not significantly different when involving all the families captured; but the more correlated pair-wise site structures reflected the vegetational stages of the sites. A temporal comparison of the beetle community structures was made, based on data gathered in one of the selected site which were sampled 13 years ago (1986/1987). The fauna collected in this year was more related with that of the initial stage of succession, in 1999/2000, than the one collected in the same area, in 1999/2000, nowadays considered as an intermediate stage of succession. This fact probably represents a parallel succession of fauna and flora. The dominant families, about 60% of total abundance, include Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae. Eventually, one or two of them, were substituted by Scarabaeidae, Ptilodactylidae, Cleridae, Coccinellidae, Lampyridae, Scolytidae, Cucujidae, Nitidulidae, Cantharidae, Scirtidae and Phengodidae. As observed in Vila Velha and other localities, there are a taxonomic family constancy among the most abundant Coleoptera families when using malaise traps. However, there were significant differences among the beetle community structures of the five areas in Vila Velha when only the seven most abundant families were included in the analysis.