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Limited effects of low-intensity forest management on ant assemblages in southwestern Amazonian forests

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One important strategy to conciliate forest conservation and economic development is the use of reduced-impact logging techniques. Here we evaluated the effects of low-intensity forest management on ant assemblages and vegetation structure in a managed area in the southeast of Acre State, Brazil. Ground-dwelling and arboreal ants, and several forest-structure descriptors were sampled in nine paired areas located in control (unlogged) and logged areas in 2005, 2007 and 2009. None of the forest structure predictors were related with either the treatment or the time since logging. However, some ant assemblage’ descriptors were related with logging activities. Arboreal and ground-dwelling ant species richness was similar between unlogged and logged areas, but more ground-dwelling ant species were found in areas logged in 2005 compared with areas logged in 2009. Ground-dwelling ant assemblage composition differed between treatments (logged and unlogged) and year of logging, but species composition heterogeneity was similar between areas. Arboreal ant assemblage composition was not related with treatment and year of logging, but assemblage composition was more heterogeneous in managed areas, suggesting that species that forage on the understory vegetation may be more resilient than ground-dwelling species. The general results of functional group approach suggest that changes of species composition between control and managed areas are more related with differences in ant species occurrence than ant species richness. Selective logging had limited effect on both vegetation descriptors and ant assemblage structure, suggesting that the conciliation of impact reduction techniques with low intensity extraction seems a promising alternative for sustainable logging activity in tropical forests.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the inhabitants of Projeto de Assentamento Agroextrativista Chico Mendes for allowing ant sampling in their area, the Laboratório de Entomologia da Universidade Federal do Acre students for their technical assistance, Juliana Schietti for preparation of Fig. 1, Lou Gold for the English review and Bill Magnusson provided valuable suggestions in the early version of this manuscript.

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This study was supported by the Fundo de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (FDCT). PNM and JHCD acknowledge their CAPES and CNPq research grant, respectively.

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  1. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, BR 364 – Km 4 – Distrito Industrial, Rio Branco, AC, CEP 69920-970, Brazil

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  2. Instituto Federal do Acre, Campus Rio Branco. Avenida Brasil 920, Bairro Xavier Maia, Rio Branco, AC, CEP 69903-062, Brazil

    Patrícia Nakayama Miranda

  3. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, General Rodrigo Octávio, 62000, Manaus, AM, CEP 69077-000, Brazil

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  4. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal. Rodovia LMG 818, Km 6, Florestal, MG, CEP 35690-000, Brazil

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    Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie

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Miranda, P.N., Baccaro, F.B., Morato, E.F. et al. Limited effects of low-intensity forest management on ant assemblages in southwestern Amazonian forests. Biodivers Conserv 26, 2435–2451 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1368-y

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