Caracterización de la opiliofauna (Arachnida: Opiliones) presente en el bosque de Niebla del Parque Natural Chicaque, Soacha, Colombia.

Abstract

The cloud forest is identified as a type of forest with high levels of species richness and endemism. The present investigation is centered in the diversity, the relation and the abundance of the plant in three different zones of study of the cloud forest in the Natural Park Chicaque, located in Soacha, Colombia. In the field phase the methods of direct queue, trap and litter collection were performed, in the phase of laboratory analysis for the analysis of diversity indices, an analysis of the main components (APC) was performed to describe the variation of the opiliofauna in three different zones of the Chicaque Natural Park. This analysis was corroborated through an (ACM), multiple correspondence analysis, for the relationship of the opiliones and the substrates where they were collected. Finally, an analysis of similarity between the study areas was carried out. How were 6 families with 27 morphotypes of opiliones in total, (Cosmetidae, Cranaidae, Fissiphalliidae, Gonyleptidae, Sclerosomatidae and Stygnidae) where the family Cosmetidae is the most abundant and the Cranaidae is the family with the least amount of the compared zones, then, the environmental conditions affect the presence of options in the cloud forest, especially the levels of anthropic intervention and natural phenomena. For the distribution of operations and substrates, the ACM relates the Cosmetidae family to most of the substrates, where the data were collected and their presence in all sampling areas.