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

Table 2

Diversity of caterpillars on two species of Erythroxylum in two areas of cerrado sensu stricto in the FAL (recently burned and control) from September 2005 to August 2006: number of caterpillars, species richness, estimated species richness through rarefaction in the control area (𝑛=346, 95% confidence interval), dominant species and dominance observed in both areas, estimated dominance by rarefaction in the control area (𝑛=346, 95% confidence interval), diversity index (𝐻^′), and dominance (𝐷 and 𝐷_bp).

	Control area	Burned area
Number of caterpillars	346	626
Observed species richness	29	36
Estimated richness; (Rarefaction, 𝑛=346)	—	24–32
Dominant species	Antaeotricha sp.	Antaeotricha sp.
Observed dominance	29.8%	34.5%
Expected dominance	—	31.2–37.9%
Diversity of Shanon-Wiener (𝐻^′)	1.01	0.89
Dominance of Simpson (𝐷)	0.16	0.21
Dominance of Berger-Parker (𝐷bp)	0.30	0.35