Fig 1.
Mage illustrating the three ecological areas in the state of Rio de Janeiro where the research was conducted
: (1) forest area at Parque Estadual dos Três Picos; (2) rural area at the cattle farming site on the campus of Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; and (3) urban area on the campus of Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Urca. Four traps were installed at georeferenced sites (labeled as site I, site II, site III, and site IV) in each of these three ecological areas. Source: USGS National Map Viewer.
Table 1.
Abundance of Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae species collected in each of the four seasons of the year, summing the three environments: forest area (Parque Estadual dos Três Picos - Cachoeiras de Macacu), rural area (UFRRJ - Seropédica), and urban area (UNIRIO, Urca campus - RJ), between 2021 and 2022.
Fig 2.
Box plot of the abundance of Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae in the four collection seasons summing the three collection areas: forest area (Parque Estadual dos Três Picos- Cachoeiras de Macacu), rural area (UFRRJ- Seropédica) and urban area (UNIRIO, campus Urca- RJ).
Table 2.
Relationship between the abiotic factors of minimum, average, and maximum temperatures in ºC, relative humidity in %, and rainfall in mm; of each season of the year on the total abundance of Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae collected summing the three environments: forest area (Parque Estadual dos Três Picos - Cachoeiras de Macacu), rural area (UFRRJ - Seropédica), and urban area (UNIRIO, Urca campus - RJ), between 2021 and 2022.
Table 3.
Spearman’s correlation between abiotic factors (temperature, relative humidity and precipitation) and the abundance of species collected from Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae in three environments: the forest area (Parque Estadual dos Três Picos- Cachoeiras de Macacu), rural area (UFRRJ- Seropédica) and urban area (UNIRIO, campus Urca- RJ) across the four seasons of the year between 2021 and 2022.
Fig 3.
Spearman’s correlation between the abundance of Lucilia eximia and the abiotic factors of mean temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall index.
Correlations marked with ** are significant at the 0.01 level.
Fig 4.
Spearman’s correlation between the abundance of Mesembrinella bellardiana and the abiotic factors of mean temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall index.
Correlations marked with * are significant at the 0.05 level, and marked with **are significant at the 0.01 level.
Fig 5.
Box plot of the abundance of female and male individuals collected from the Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae families in a forest area (Parque Estadual dos Três Picos- Cachoeiras de Macacu), rural area (UFRRJ- Seropédica) and urban area (UNIRIO, campus Urca- RJ) during 2021 and 2022.