Accidental Fire in the Cerrado: Its Impact on Communities of Caterpillars on Two Species of Erythroxylum

Table 3

Abundance of caterpillars and Jaccard similarity index between the two areas of cerrado sensu stricto in the FAL (recently burned and control) from September 2005 to August 2006 based on caterpillars found on two species of Erythroxylum.

Months	Abundance		Jaccard index
	Control	Burned
	area	area
Sep	16	0	0.00
Oct	12	17	0.22
Nov	3	7	0.20
Dec	12	30	0.29
Jan	31	40	0.70
Feb	16	27	0.50
Mar	12	33	0.27
Apr	26	42	0.25
May	132	242	0.33
Jun	51	144	0.62
Jul	26	37	0.29
Aug	9	7	0.00
Total	346	626	0.38