Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VITORIA GODEIRO DE QUEIROZ

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VITORIA GODEIRO DE QUEIROZ
DATE: 27/08/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/gmz-uygz-ckk
TITLE:

Structure of the lizard community in the Nísia Floresta National Forest: aspects of color and the effect of environmental characteristics on species.

KEY WORDS:

Conservation; Sensory Ecology; Spectrophotometry; Rio Grande do Norte; Squamata.

PAGES: 32
BIG AREA: Ciências Biológicas
AREA: Ecologia
SUMMARY:

The extinction of species is a phenomenon that occurs worldwide. In Brazil, a country that houses a vast biodiversity of fauna and flora, it is necessary to investigate how these organisms are distributed in nature in order to better understand what actions should be taken to prevent potential harm. With this in mind, the project sought to understand, using previous occurrence data, how species of lizards residing in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest are distributed, considering that the area features three considerably distinct environments (sandbank, regeneration, and forest), and whether this occurrence may be related to the coloration of the illuminating light, the substrate, or their display to other individuals, such as predators or conspecifics. In the first chapter, we obtained quantitative measures of the coloration of the collected individuals, which included wavelength and the presence of ultraviolet light at 10 distinct points on each animal, and furthermore, we classified the respective preferred environments of each of the collected species. In the second chapter, we used the coloration metrics of the individuals, obtained in the first chapter, to compare them with the wavelength and presence of UV from the substrate and the illuminating source of the location where they were collected. Additionally, we visually modeled the vision of a bird (predator) and a conspecific, to analyze the strategy adopted by these lizards when in their respective environment.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1678338 - ADRIAN ANTONIO GARDA
Externa ao Programa - 1549043 - ADRIANA MONTEIRO DE ALMEIDA - UFRNExterno à Instituição - DANIEL OLIVEIRA MESQUITA - UFPB