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Vulnerability of Phyllocycla Species (Odonata: Gomphidae) to Current and Planned Anthropic Activities by the Brazilian Government

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Although most species distribution modeling (SDMs) are constructed at the species level, an appreciation of evolutionary processes has led to modeling above this level. In view of the difficulty in estimating the impacts of human actions on rare or deficient data species, we proposed a new approach to vulnerability assessment based on concepts already well established in the literature (ecological niche, niche conservatism, and extinction thresholds). We used distribution modeling to predict where species of the genus Phyllocycla (Calvert 1948) are most vulnerable to local extinctions and how the implementation of planned anthropic activities by the Brazilian government may modify the potential distribution of the genus in Brazil. We chose that genus because its conservation status is little known, especially due to the data gap about its geographical distribution. We proposed modeling the whole genus and used the niche conservatism theory to justify our methods. The anthropic activities considered in our analysis were agriculture and livestock, rural settlements, energy production installations, transportation, oil extraction, mining, and urbanization. We found that only 55.3% of the original potential distribution of Phyllocycla in Brazil remains available. The area compromised by anthropic activities comprises mainly the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes, with less impact on the Amazon. However, with the implementation of activities planned by the Brazilian government, it is possible that an additional 13.6% of this area will be unavailable to species of Phyllocycla, especially in the Amazon, where interest in mining and the implementation of new hydroelectric production have increased.

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We thank two anonymous reviewers, and the editor of the journal for suggestions that improved a previous version of this manuscript.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) provided research grants to MFAA, and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) provided productivity grants to LJ (process 303252/2013-8) and PDM (process 305542/2010-9). This study was also funded by “Mapas de Vulnerabilidade de Espécies Ameaçadas Brasileiras” in partnership with Universidade Federal de Goiás – Instituto Chico Mendes.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação de Recursos Naturais, Univ Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil

    M F A Araújo & N M Tôrres

  2. Faculdade de Medicina do Mucuri, Univ Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Teófilo Otoni, MG, Brasil

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  3. Lab de Ecologia Teórica e Síntese, Depto de Ecologia, Univ Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brasil

    P De Marco

  4. Lab de Ecologia e Conservação, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Univ Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brasil

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Araújo, M.F.A., De Marco, P., Juen, L. et al. Vulnerability of Phyllocycla Species (Odonata: Gomphidae) to Current and Planned Anthropic Activities by the Brazilian Government. Neotrop Entomol 49, 24–32 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-019-00714-4

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