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Odonata Diversity and Synanthropy in Urban Areas: A Case Study in Avellaneda City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The increase of human population, especially in urban areas, correlates with an alarming destruction of green spaces. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms by which urbanization processes affect biodiversity is crucial in integrating the environment in a proper urban planning. The main urban center of Argentina is known as the Greater Buenos Aires (GBA), and it includes the autonomous city of Buenos Aires and 24 surrounding districts. Avellaneda, one of the districts of the GBA, is an important urban and industrial center with green areas and low level of urbanization on the coastal area of the Río de la Plata. This paper provides the first Odonata inventory for Avellaneda, determines the species’ level of synanthropy with the Nuorteva index, and assess the Odonata species replacement along a latitudinal gradient on the occidental margin of the Río de la Plata.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Natalia von Ellenerieder for her review of the early version of this manuscript; Mónica Cappellini, Hugo Mosto, and Gustavo Ghiglieri, Municipalidad de Avellaneda, for their valuable assistance during the field work; and Alejandro del Palacio for his help with the maps. This research was supported in part by the Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda under PROAPI 2012.

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Ramos, L.S., Lozano, F. & Muzón, J. Odonata Diversity and Synanthropy in Urban Areas: A Case Study in Avellaneda City, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Neotrop Entomol 46, 144–150 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-016-0443-5

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