The use of Odonata species for environmental assessment: a meta-analysis for the Neotropical region
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REVIEW ARTICLE
The use of Odonata species for environmental assessment: a meta-analysis for the Neotropical region María Gómez-Tolosa 1 & Gustavo Rivera-Velázquez 2 & Tamara M. Rioja-Paradela 3 & Luis F. Mendoza-Cuenca 4 & César Tejeda-Cruz 2 & Sergio López 3 Received: 8 May 2020 / Accepted: 4 October 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The order Odonata has been regularly used as an indicator of the ecosystem’s condition. The objective of this review was to analyze the importance of Odonata for environmental assessments (assessment types, statistical approach, life stages, and sampling method, or particular metric), summarizing the current state, the trends, and identifying related research issues in the Neotropical region. Therefore, we selected 62 articles from 2007 to 2018 based on published research to monitor Odonata assessments in the Neotropical region. We compiled a database and ran statistical analyses for the observed frequencies. We found that ecosystem health was the most frequent assessment type and quality the most used objective. In the case of statistical tests and metrics, multivariate analyses and species richness were most used in these papers. However, because there is a great diversity of habitats in this region, there is no unique monitoring protocol to assess the quality of ecosystem health and it is needed to create a proposal for a standard evaluation protocol. Consequently, guidelines for monitoring are presented, and we suggest three stages to establish a specific protocol for each site, which records the set of species most sensitive to the exchange rate evaluated, as well as the use of rarefaction methods, the index of diversity based on the area under the curve, and multivariate analysis, among other recommendations. Keywords Biomonitoring . Biotic index . Damselflies . Diversity . Dragonflies . Habitat index . Indicators
Responsible Editor: Thomas Hein Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11137-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * María Gómez-Tolosa [email protected] * Sergio López [email protected] 1
Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias en Biodiversidad y Conservación de Ecosistemas Tropicales, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte-Poniente 1150, 29018 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
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Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte-Poniente 1150, 29018 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
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Cuerpo Académico Sustentabilidad y Ecología Aplicada, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte-Poniente 1150, 29018 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
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Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Avenida Francisco J. Múgica S/N, 58030 Morelia, Michoacán, México
Introduction Up to one million plant and animal species face extinction because of human activities according to the I
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