Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil
Anurans are important in trophic food chains because they feed on invertebrates, many of which are harmful to humans. We investigated the diet of 100 specimens of Boana albopunctata from an Atlantic Forest fragment in Ponte Nova municipality, Minas Gerais state. We obtained 107 prey items. The most...
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| author | Eduardo Oliveira Pacheco Vanessa Gonçalves Ferreira Rose Marie Hoffmann de Carvalho |
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| description | Anurans are important in trophic food chains because they feed on invertebrates, many of which are harmful to humans. We investigated the diet of 100 specimens of Boana albopunctata from an Atlantic Forest fragment in Ponte Nova municipality, Minas Gerais state. We obtained 107 prey items. The most common prey were Lepidoptera, Araneae and Coleoptera. This species tended to select larger prey in smaller quantities as found in previous reports, but differed in the taxons selected because of spatial and temporal variation in microhabitats and the availability of invertebrates in savannas |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4ae0698a6bec4227a144e97b9bc7b99d2022-12-21T18:09:59ZengUniversidade de São PauloPhyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology1519-13972316-90792017-06-01161Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern BrazilEduardo Oliveira Pacheco0Vanessa Gonçalves Ferreira1Rose Marie Hoffmann de Carvalho2Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências BiológicasUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências BiológicasUniversidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências BiológicasAnurans are important in trophic food chains because they feed on invertebrates, many of which are harmful to humans. We investigated the diet of 100 specimens of Boana albopunctata from an Atlantic Forest fragment in Ponte Nova municipality, Minas Gerais state. We obtained 107 prey items. The most common prey were Lepidoptera, Araneae and Coleoptera. This species tended to select larger prey in smaller quantities as found in previous reports, but differed in the taxons selected because of spatial and temporal variation in microhabitats and the availability of invertebrates in savannashttps://www.revistas.usp.br/phyllo/article/view/134073food itemsnatural historytrophic ecology |
| spellingShingle | Eduardo Oliveira Pacheco Vanessa Gonçalves Ferreira Rose Marie Hoffmann de Carvalho Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology food items natural history trophic ecology |
| title | Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil |
| title_full | Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil |
| title_short | Diet of Boana albopunctata (Anura: Hylidae) in an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil |
| title_sort | diet of boana albopunctata anura hylidae in an atlantic forest fragment of southeastern brazil |
| topic | food items natural history trophic ecology |
| url | https://www.revistas.usp.br/phyllo/article/view/134073 |
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