Acercamiento a la diversidad de lepidópteros diurnos y su aporte al proceso de restauración en el Cerro de Monserrate

Abstract

This document arises as a result of the research project developed in the Enrique Olaya Herrera Stage II Park, supported by the Botanical Garden of Bogotá and the Francisco José de Caldas District University, under the modality of an internship, in the area of ​​undergraduate studies in Biology. The purpose of the project is to contribute to the characterization of diurnal lepidoptera found in the different scenarios of the Enrique Olaya Herrera National Park Stage II, for the periods of October and November of the year 2019. Bearing in mind the importance of these organisms within the evaluation of a restoration process and its impact at the level of ecosystem services, a total of 14 sampling scenarios were established that meet the characteristics of being areas in the process of restoration and are divided into three large groups: pajonal. scrub and forest, which influence the diversity of recorded individuals. The capture of the organisms was manually with the use of entomological net and the sampling day was established between 8am and 4 pm, for a total of 165 individuals, of which 4 families, 7 subfamilies, 13 genera were found. and 16 species, being the Nymphalidae and Pieridae families the ones with the highest number of species. Subsequently, the Simpson diversity index was calculated for a low dominance with respect to the diversity index (high diversity) and the Shannon-Wiener index, which resulted in an ecosystem with a fairly high species biodiversity. Finally, and according to the species accumulation curve, we can say that according to Aguilar-Garavito M. and W. Ramírez, 2015, the occurrence of rare species within the forest can indicate particular habitats or areas of interest for conservation, which which suggests that which allows to support the process of restoration of the sampling area and the resilience of the landscape. As a contribution to the work developed, a catalog is generated where the results of the research project are recorded, the different organisms found at the family and species level are reported, taking into account their abundance, diversity and morphological description.