Diversidade de collembola (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) do arquipélago Fernando de Noronha, Brasil

Abstract

The terrestrial fauna on oceanic islands is highly vulnerability and diversity particular due to the geographical limited and unique space. Conservation Strategies of island must be strict to ensure the maintenance of diversity. The recognition of distribution patterns of diversity is important to determine the appropriate spatial scales for the development of conservation strategies biogeographic. This work, by partitioning the diversity of Collembola in Oceanic Islands of the Archipelago Fernando de Noronha, we present the distribution pattern the diversity of arthropods and also described a new species of Collembola endemic to this island environment. This work was structured in three chapters. In the first we present the state of the art, the objectives (general and specific), hypothesis, inquiry and characterization of the study area. The remaining chapters were developed in article format, respecting the proposed by the respective magazines format. The second chapter presents a study on the spatial distribution of Collembola, which determine the appropriate scale for the conservation of the Archipelago Fernando de Noronha and will be submitted for Diversity and Distributions ( IF 6.122 ) magazine and third present the first species of collembola endemic and restricted the sandy strand of the Archipelago Fernando de Noronha published in The Florida Entomologist (IF 1.163 ) in December 2013 (volume 96 , pages 1579-1587) titled " A New Species of Isotogastrura (Collembola : Isotogastruridae) from Northeastern Brazil " (PALACIOS - VARGAS et al., 2013) .