Ganade, GisleneNascimento, Bruna Vanessa Paula do2019-12-162021-10-062019-12-162021-10-062019-11-29NASCIMENTO, Bruna Vanessa Paula do. Fauna de solo na fase inicial de um programa de restauração de Caatinga. 2019. 28 f. Monografia (Graduação em Ecologia) Centro de Biociências. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2019.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/43332Restoration programs provide the development of new techniques of forest recomposition and are of great importance for the recovery of degraded areas of Caatinga. Planting a new vegetation can provide colonization of the degraded area by other trophic levels, such as soil fauna. In view of this information. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze how plant diversity can influence Caatinga soil fauna in a restored area with different levels of plant diversity. Specific objectives are: i) To inventory the soil fauna that colonized a restored Caatinga area in its first year of development; ii) Test if the plant diversity of the restored area influences the richness and abundance of soil fauna. It is expected that in plots with greater plant diversity there will be greater diversity of soil fauna. The study was conducted in the Açu National Forest (RN) in an experiment established in 2016 to restore a degraded area of Caatinga. The design of the experiment consists of 155 8 x 13 m plots separated by two-meter wide trails. Sampling of soil fauna organisms took place in July 2017, end of the rainy season, one year after the establishment of the experiment. For capture, pitfalls were installed in the center of the 41 plots that were drawn for this study, one per plot totaling 41 traps. To test whether plant diversity affects soil fauna diversity, the nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test was performed. The groups of soil organisms that presented higher richness and abundance were Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleptera and Homoptera. There were no significant differences in the abundance and richness of soil fauna in relation to the different levels of plant diversity. This was probably because the area is at the beginning of the restoration, after only one year of establishment of the experiment. However, samplingsshow that soil fauna is healthy and then able to develop over time.Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/br/Fauna de SoloRiquezaAbundânciaRestauração da CaatingaDiversidade de PlantasbachelorThesis