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High Diversity of Drosophilidae in High-Altitude Wet Forests in Northeastern Brazil

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The high-altitude wet forests of northeastern Brazil, locally known as “Brejos de Altitude,” are enclaves of the Atlantic Forest situated above 500 m, surrounded by dryland vegetation, the Caatinga. The aim of this study was to characterize drosophilid communities in these upland forests, since few ecological studies on drosophilid communities have been conducted in northeastern Brazil. Four sites were investigated in three different times of the year throughout standardized traps. The results reveal the presence of 55 different species in a total of 13,064 specimens collected. The data were evaluated using ecological diversity measurements and compared with those obtained for other environments in the same geographic region. As for species composition, the Bonito upland forest, in a boundary forest location, stood out as having high species richness.

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The authors are grateful to the funding agencies Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE), Pró-Reitoria para Assuntos de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (PROPESQ-UFPE), and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for fellowships and grants.

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  1. PPG em Saúde Humana e Meio Ambiente, Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, Brasil

    L S Monteiro & G F Oliveira

  2. Lab de Genética, Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, Brasil

    L S Monteiro, A C L Garcia & C Rohde

  3. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Rua do Alto do Reservatório s/n Bairro Bela Vista, Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brasil, CEP 55608-680

    C Rohde

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Monteiro, L.S., Garcia, A.C.L., Oliveira, G.F. et al. High Diversity of Drosophilidae in High-Altitude Wet Forests in Northeastern Brazil. Neotrop Entomol 45, 265–273 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-016-0364-3

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