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Previous issue date: 2012-02-13 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Based on climate data and occurrence records, ecological niche models (ENM) are an important opportunity to identify areas at risk or vulnerable to biological invasion. These models are based on the assumption that there is a match between the climatic characteristic of native and invaded regions predicting the potential distribution of exotic species. Using new methods to measure niche overlap, we chose two exotic species fairly common in semi-arid regions of South America, Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. and Prosopis pallida (H. ; B. ex. Willd) HBK, to test the climate matching hypothesis. Our results indicate that both species occur with little niche overlap in the native region while the inverse pattern is observed in the invaded region on South America, where both species occur with high climatic overlap. Maybe some non-climate factor act limiting the spread of P. pallida on the native range. We believe that a founder effect can explain these similarities between species niche in the invaded region once the seeds planted in Brazil came from a small region on the Native range (Piura in Peru), where both species occur sympatric. Our hypothesis of a founder effect may be evident when we look at the differences between the predictions of the models built in the native and invaded ranges. Furthermore, our results indicate that P. juliflora shows high levels of climate matching between native and invaded ranges. However, conclusions about climate matching of P. pallida should be taken with caution. Our models based on climatic variables provide multiple locations suitable for occurrence of both species in regions where they still don t have occurrence records, including places of high interest for conservation. / Baseados nas informa??es clim?ticas e nos registros de ocorr?ncia, modelos de nicho ecol?gico (MNE) s?o uma importante oportunidade de identificar ?reas sob risco ou vulner?veis ? invas?o biol?gica. Estes modelos se ap?iam na suposi??o de que existe congru?ncia entre os climas das regi?es nativa e invadida para prever a distribui??o potencial de esp?cies ex?ticas. Utilizando m?todos recentes para medir sobreposi??es entre MNE, escolhemos duas esp?cies invasoras bastante comuns em regi?es semi-?ridas da Am?rica do Sul, Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. e Prosopis pallida (H. ; B. ex. Willd) H.B.K., para testar a hip?tese da congru?ncia clim?tica. Nossos resultados indicam as duas esp?cies ocorrem com pouca sobreposi??o de nicho na regi?o nativa, enquanto que o inverso se observa na regi?o invadida na Am?rica do Sul, onde as duas esp?cies ocorrem com elevada sobreposi??o de nicho. Algum fator n?o clim?tico pode atuar limitando a dispers?o de P. pallida na ?rea nativa. Acreditamos que um efeito fundador pode explicar estas semelhan?as de nicho encontradas na regi?o invadida uma vez que as sementes plantadas no Brasil vieram de uma pequena regi?o da ?rea nativa (Piura, Peru), onde ambas esp?cies ocorrem em simpatria. Diferen?as entre as previs?es dos modelos constru?dos na regi?o nativa e projetados para a regi?o nativa evidenciam nossa hip?tese do efeito fundador. Al?m disso, nossos resultados indicam que P. juliflora ocorre nas regi?es nativas e invadidas em condi??es clim?ticas bastante congruentes. Entretanto, conclus?es sobre congru?ncia clim?tica entre regi?es nativas e invadidas por P. pallida devem ser tomados com cautela. Os modelos prev?em v?rios locais favor?veis para a ocorr?ncia de ambas as esp?cies em regi?es onde ainda n?o existem registros de ocorr?ncia, inclusive locais de elevado interesse para conserva??o.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufrn.br:123456789/14022 |
| Date | 13 February 2012 |
| Creators | Oliveira, Brunno Freire Dantas de |
| Contributors | CPF:75617633791, http://lattes.cnpq.br/2567786500828682, Souza, Alexandre Fadigas de, CPF:02845395701, http://lattes.cnpq.br/7844758818522706, Costa, Gabriel Corr?a, CPF:90773306153, http://lattes.cnpq.br/2151112850152895, Vieira, Gustavo Henrique Calazans, CPF:82875448153, http://lattes.cnpq.br/5101662589521098, Fonseca, Carlos Roberto Sorensen Dutra da |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ecologia, UFRN, BR, Bioecologia Aqu?tica |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRN, instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, instacron:UFRN |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess |
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