Abstract
Arthropods exhibit high diversity, wide ecological range, broad distribution, and are found in various environments and microhabitats. In the Cerrado biome, many arthropods interact with specific plants, which function as their habitat and foraging grounds. The shrub-tree species Ouratea hexasperma is common in the Cerrado and displays considerable variation in individual canopy size. A direct positive relationship linking area and richness is a widely studied topic in Ecology, with such relationship also being observed in island-like environments. Considering each canopy as an island-like community, in this study, we analyzed the relationship between arthropod richness (measured as family richness) and tree canopy size. We collected and identified 17 arthropod families from nine orders on O. hexasperma trees, with Insecta being the most abundant taxon, followed by Arachnida and Myriapoda. However, Arachnida presented the highest number of families (seven). Our results show a positive correlation between canopy size and arthropod richness, indicating that larger canopies support richer arthropod communities. Thus, our findings support the species-area relationships on small geographic scales.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Seventeen arthropod families from nine orders were collected on O. hexasperma.
- Taxon
- O. hexasperma
Ouratea hexaspermae0 - Outcome
- 17 arthropod families from nine orderse0
- Value
- 17 arthropod families from nine orderse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“We collected and identified 17 arthropod families from nine orders on O. hexasperma trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Insecta was the most abundant arthropod taxon, followed by Arachnida and Myriapoda.
- Taxon
- Ouratea hexaspermaOuratea hexaspermat0
- Outcome
- Insecta being the most abundant taxon, followed by Arachnida and Myriapodae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with Insecta being the most abundant taxon, followed by Arachnida and Myriapoda”
t0“Ouratea hexasperma”
Claim · model-written summary
Arachnida had the highest family count, seven.
- Taxon
- Ouratea hexaspermaOuratea hexaspermat0
- Outcome
- highest number of familiese0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- sevene0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Arachnida presented the highest number of families (seven)”
t0“Ouratea hexasperma”
Claim · model-written summary
Larger canopies were positively correlated with arthropod richness.
- Taxon
- Ouratea hexaspermaOuratea hexaspermat0
- Organ / stage
- canopye0
- Interactor
- arthropode0other
- Outcome
- arthropod richnesse0
- Direction
- positive correlatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Our results show a positive correlation between canopy size and arthropod richness, indicating that larger canopies support richer arthropod communities”
t0“Ouratea hexasperma”