Knowledge of tropical forests plays a key role in developing global strategies for biodiversity conservation. In Brazil, the tropical dry forest is known as Caatinga (Tupi language; caa = forest and tinga = white) owing to the predominant type of vegetation (Santos et al., 2012). The Caatinga is a unique ecosystem in Brazil, and despite its socioeconomic importance to the country, it is subject to intense natural resource exploitation and has been little studied and protected. According to the literature, only 14 % of tropical forest studies are related to the biodiversity of the Caatinga, and 86 % are conducted in humid regions (Sánchez-Azofeifa et al., 2005).

Soil is a dynamic and complex biological system, in which different organisms play key roles in the maintenance and survival of plant and animal communities. Fungi are the predominant soil microorganism in terms of biomass and a number of different species can be found in soil including the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium (Cruz, Santos, Lima, Moreira & Souza-Motta, 2013; Oliveira, Cavalcanti, Fernandes, & Lima, 2013). Those genera are widespread, occurring frequently in soils, and have important roles in the processes of biodeterioration, as well as significant importance in the medical field, because some of them are pathogenic to humans and other animals (Houbraken & Samson, 2011; Pitt & Hocking, 2009).

The characterization of the mycodiversity of soil will not only contribute to preservation strategies but also can be used for developing bioindicators of environmental changes associated with disturbances caused by management practices and pollutants (Lambais, Cury, Maluche-Baretta, & Büll, 2005). The prospecting of fungi can lead to increased understanding and preservation of the sources of genetic diversity, increased understanding of the distribution patterns of microorganisms and the involvement of biodiversity in the functioning and sustainability of ecosystems (Øvreås, 2000).

Among the areas of importance in the Caatinga, is the Catimbau National Park (PARNA Catimbau), created in 2002. The PARNA Catimbau is distributed among the area municipalities of Buíque (12 438 ha), Tupanatinga (23 540 ha) and Ibimirim (24 809 ha) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. Its landscape consists of walls of colorful sandstone formations, and unique vegetation. It attracts large numbers of visitors each year (SNE, 2002), and this area has also been used by small farmers for extracting wood from the forest areas for subsistence or for sale to local businesses as fuel.

There has been some study on the fungi in PARNA Catimbau (Cruz et al., 2013; Oliveira et al., 2013); however, soil samples have covered only a small part of the Park in the municipality of Buíque. Thus, taking into account the rapid loss of biodiversity and the role of fungi in the balance of an ecosystem, it is necessary to extend the knowledge of fungi, as well as their distribution in areas not yet surveyed. Therefore the aim of this study was to gather information on the diversity and distribution of Aspergillus and Penicillium species in soils of the Catimbau National Park in Pernambuco, Brazil.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Study site: Soil samples were collected in areas from the Catimbau National Park in Pernambuco, Brazil in the municipalities of Ibimirim (08°27’ S - 37°19’66’ ‘W) and Tupanatinga (08°29’ S - 037°19’58 W) during the drought season (July-November) of 2012. The vegetation of the park exhibits very different floristic and structural patterns, which comprise five distinct Caatinga vegetation types: shrub-arboreal; shrub with savannah elements; shrub with elements of rock fields; evergreen forest vegetation and shrub sub-evergreen (Rodal, Andrade, Sales & Gomes, 1998). The municipality of Ibimirim shows traces of the practice of withdrawal of native vegetation for fuel and grazing activities, and includes homes of small farmers who make constant use of this soil. In the municipality of Tupanatinga, there is a greater amount of plant species typical of Caatinga, such as cacti Cereus jamacaru DC., Pilosocereus gounellei (FAC Weber) (Byles & GD Rowley) and Melocactus zehntneri (Britton & Rose) Luetzelb., and no grazing activities or housing. The soil sampled in the two collection areas was chemically analyzed in the Physics and Soil Fertility Laboratory of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (Table 1).

 

Soil sampling and processing: Five collections were performed in each area, and each collection was randomly assigned five 25 m2 quadrants (5×5 m) with a minimum distance of 10 m between them. In each quadrant, six equidistant subsamples were collected at a depth of 0-20 cm and combined, consisting of a total of five mixed samples in each collection area. The samples were stored in labeled plastic bags, and manipulated in the Phytopathogenic Fungi Laboratory, Mycology Department, Center of Biological Sciences (CCB), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Pernambuco, Brazil. The soil collections were authorized by the Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA)/Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio); permission number: 33358-1/authentication code 39911643 issued on 22th march, 2012.

Fungal isolation: Fungi isolation from soil samples was carried out using a modified version of a serial dilution technique described by Clark (1965). In summary, 25 g of each soil sample was diluted in 225 mL of sterile distilled water. One milliliter of the 10-3 dilution was spread onto Sabouraud Agar with chloramphenicol (0.17 g/L), Bengal Rose (0.05 g/L) and Dicloran Glycerol (DG-18). The Petri dishes were incubated at 28 ± 2°C for 3 days. After incubation, the colonies were subcultured to Malt Agar and chloramphenicol (0.17 g/L) was added until single colonies were obtained.

 

Fungal identification: The fungi were identified in the research laboratory of the Culture Collection (URM), Mycology Department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, using specific methodology and literature described in Jurjević et al. (2012), Klich (2002), Pitt (1991),

Samson and Frisvad (2004), Samson and Houbraken (2011). Isolates with unclear morphological identification were selected for molecular identification. The genomic DNA extraction was performed according Góes-Neto, Loguercio-Leite and Guerrero (2005). The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification for region ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 of rDNA was carried out with the primers ITS1 (5’-TCC GTA GGT GAA CCT GCG G-3’) and ITS4 (5’-TCC TCC GCT TAT TGA TAT GC-3’) according to White, Bruns, Lee and Taylor (1990). All amplification reactions were carried out in volumes of 25 µL with 19 µL PCR buffer (Tris-HCl 20 mM pH 8.4; NH4), 2.0 mM MgCl2, 0.20 mM dNTP mix, 0.40 lM of each primer, 0.04 U/µl Taq DNA polymerase (Fermentas Life Sciences), 25 ng DNA and sterile ultra-pure water up to 30 µl. Amplification was carried out in a thermocycler programmed for 8 min at 95 °C initial denaturation followed by 35 cycles of 30 s at 95 °C, 45 s at 47 °C and 3 min at 72 °C, and 10 min final extension at 72 °C.

The PCR products were checked in 1 % agarose gel electrophoresis for 30-35 min at 100 V. The amplification product obtained was purified with GenJET PCR Purification Kit – Fermentas®. All PCR products were sent to Plataform of Sequencing-LABCEN/CCB (UFPE) to be sequenced. The sequences obtained were analysed in GenBank with BLASTn to search for similarity with the sequences deposited. Molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) were defined using a 98 % ITS region identity threshold.

 

Ecological analyses: After the identification of the filamentous fungal species from the different soils, ecological indices were applied: species richness consisted of the total number of species (S) in a unique sample. The distribution of each fungal species was calculated for each sampling using the following formula: Di = (Ni/N) * 100, where Di = distribution of the species; Ni = number of colony forming units (CFU) of the species; N = total number of CFU. According to this formula, the species frequencies can be classified as: < 0.5 % = rare, ≥ 0.5 < 1.5 % = occasional, ≥ 1.5 < 3.0 % = common, ≥ 3.0 % = abundant (Schnittler & Stephenson, 2000). Means were compared by Tukey’s test at 5 % significance level using the ASSISTAT 7.7. Species Richness, Shannon-Wiener’s Diversity, Pielou’s Equitability and Berger-Parker’s Dominance were calculated using the PAST 1.7 software (Hammer, Harper, & Ryan, 2001).

RESULTS

A total of 3 139×106 colony forming units per gram of soil (CFU/g) were found in the municipalities studied. Isolates numbering 2 531 originated from Tupanatinga and 608 from Ibimirim, distributed across 42 species: 22 belonging to the genus Aspergillus and 20 to the genus Penicillium. The species, number of CFUs and the relative abundance (%) are shown in Table 2. The species A. aureoterreus, A. lentulus, A. niveus, A. pulvinus, A. ruber, A. westerdijkiae, P. implicatum, P. janczewskii, P. restrictum, P. vinaceum occurred only in Tupanatinga soils while A. recurvatus was isolated only in soil samples from Ibimirim. Considering the total obtained in the two areas in relation to the classification of relative abundance according Schnittler & Stephenson (2000), 14 % of the isolates were classified as rare (Di: < 0.5 %), 26 % occasional (Di ≥ 0.5 < 1.5 %), 29 % common (Di ≥ 1.5 < 3.0 % ) and 31 % were abundant (Di ≥ 3.0 %). Analyzing each collection area separately, 21 % of the species were rare, 17 % occasional, 26 % common and 33 % abundant in Tupanatinga and 02 % were considered rare, 29 % occasional, 19 % common and 26 % abundant in Ibimirim (Table 2).

Aspergillus and Penicillium genera contain a high number of species, many of which are very similar morphologically. Thus, species with dubious identification were extracted DNA and amplified ITS region and β-tubulin. Fifteen Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs) were identified based on the sequencing of the ITS region of rRNA with nucleotide differences from the other fungal sequences deposited in GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, USA) ranging from 1 to 2 %. The numbers of accesses in the GenBank are: A. tamarii (KM613134); A. westerdijkiae (KM613135); A. caelatus (KM613136); A. niveus (KM613137); A. aculeatus (KM613138); A. niger (KM613139); A. caelatus (KM613140); A. versicolor (KM613141); A. lentulus (KM613142); A. viride-nutans (KM613143); A. aureolus (KM613144); A. terreus (KM613145); P.simplicissimum (KM613146); P. adametzii (KM613147) and P.citrinum (KM613148).

Comparing the two collection areas, it was possible to obtain a large number of Colony Forming Units x 103 g solo-1 (CFUs) of Aspergillus (1 143) and Penicillium (1 388) in Tupanatinga, and small number of CFUs Aspergillus (235) and Penicillium (373) in Ibimirim, (F = 6.236, p = 0.001 and F = 5.149, p = 0.001 respectively); however, it was not possible to observe a significant difference in density between the genera in the same area by Tukey test at 5 % probability.

The ecological indices indicated that the values of diversity and richness of Aspergillus and Penicillium species are close between the studied areas. The distribution of Aspergillus species showed greater uniformity in Ibimirim with an evenness index 0.86. However, Penicillium to the soil showed greater evenness in Tupanatinga with a value of 0.92 (Table 3). This result may be related to the density found for each collection site.

DISCUSSION

Most species found in this study are already known to occur in soils in Caatinga; however, A. aureolus, A. aureoterreus, A. caelatus, A. lentulus, A. nidulans, A. recurvatus, A. ruber, A. viridinutans, A. westerdijkiae, P. miczynskii and P. sclerotiorum are being referenced for the first time to this soil ecosystem. In the natural environment of Northeastern Brasil, several studies have shown the presence of species of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium and others Acomycota, Basidiomycota e Mucoromycotina (Cavalcanti, Oliveira, Fernandes, & Lima, 2006; Silva, Tiago, Mattos, Paiva, & Souza-Motta, 2011).

Oliveira et al. (2013) researched filamentous fungi in soils of the Catimbau National Park (Buíque-PE, Brazil) and found a total of 85 taxa; 71 species of anamorphic fungi, eight Zygomycetes and six Ascomycota. The abundant genera were Aspergillus (28 taxa) and Penicillium (18). Cruz et al. (2013) also studied the diversity of Penicillium in soils of the Caatinga in Catimbau National Park, but only in one area and in soils of Atlantic Forest. They obtained a total of 370 isolates from soils of the National Park, with P. aurantiogriseum, P. glabrum and P. lividum being the most dominant species. The authors also noted that 14 species occurred only in soils of the Caatinga, including P. adametzii, P. citrinum, P. implicatum, P. janczewskii, P. minioluteum, P. spinulosum, P. verruculosum and P. waksmanii. All these fungi species also occurred in the present study, indicating their ability to thrive in dry environments.

We used a culture-based approach and the sequencing of ITS region of the rRNA gene clarifications regarding the morphology taxonomy. The ITS region was chosen because this region has the highest probability of allowing the successful identification of a broad range of fungi. The isolates that were selected for sequencing in this study that had their identification confirmed by analysis of molecular data, showed a maximum 2 % divergence from any sequence in the GenBank. Nilsson, Kristiansson, Ryberg, Hallenberg and Larsson (2008) showed that 2 % is an acceptable margin for intraspecific differences in Ascomycota sequences for the ITS rDNA region.

Aspergillus species of the Niger group were also well represented with A. niger being considered abundant in both areas. This species is widely distributed and is often found in dry regions. Its distribution is related to the climate, vegetation and soil. Klich (2002), when studying the biogeography of Aspergillus in samples of soil and leaf litter, noted that this fungi occurs more frequently in desert environments and that A. niger has been isolated more frequently in areas of cultivated soils and tropical forests. According to the same author, members of the Nidulantes section are rare in soils that have experienced anthropogenic influence, which corroborates with the results obtained in this study, which was isolated only one species of the Nidulantes section.

Penicillium species belonging to the section Citrine were also well represented in this survey. According to Monteiro (2012) the Citrine section commonly occurs in soils and is also good producers of secondary metabolites that may confer benefit by providing a competitive advantage when colonizing a new substrate.

The least abundant species found for the genus Aspergillus was A. niveus (0.03 %) which were isolated only in Tupanatinga. For the genus Penicillium, the lowest abundance was of P. waksmanii (0.51 %) in the two collection areas. Several studies have shown that different plant species have the ability to select certain fungal communities (De Bellis, Kernaghan, & Widden, 2007). De Bellis et al. (2007) studied the relationship between groups of soil fungi and plant communities in a boreal forest in Québec (Canada) and noted that the species of fungi were related to plant species and not to the chemical properties of the soil. However, it is noteworthy that the type of vegetation also influences the physicochemical properties and composition of soil organic matter. There are reports that plants can cause changes in soil properties that lead to complex interactions with vegetation and may influence the soil fungal community (Nielsen, Osler, Campbell, Burslem, & van Der Wal, 2010).

In the presente study, those species were classified as abundant (34 %), common (26 %), rare (14 %) and ocasional (26 %). Oliveita et al. (2013) found a total density of 1 150×10³ CFU/g, with Aspergillus (18 species) and Penicillium (28) species classified as abundant.

Penicillium commune was not isolated in any of the soil samples and P. restrictum was only obtained from Tupanatinga. This is interesting because in both collection sites, the native vegetation remains in good condition. Studies have shown that fungi are found with densities ranging from 104 to 106 organisms per gram of soil (Blackwell, 2011). According Bononi (1998), in environments with high density populations of fungi, different types of ecological relationships among populations of fungi and/or other bodies are established.

In the present study, high diversity and low dominance of fungi was observed in soil from Ibimirim, confirming the affirmation of Brower and Zar (1984) that a community with high diversity will have low dominance. The diversity and dominance of the fungal populations in soils depend on the occurrence of specific habitats for certain species. The decrease in the diversity, richness and evenness and increasing dominance has been linked to levels of environmental stress. However, it is possible that there may be an increase in diversity with increasing stress level. At one point where the stress level is minimal, diversity is reduced owing to competitive exclusion between species. If the stress level continues to increase, the competition decreases, resulting in an increase in diversity. However, when the disturbance reaches high levels, elimination occurs between species and the diversity decreases again (Clarke & Warwick, 1994).

The distribution of isolates among the identified species had become more uniform among isolates of Penicillium in Tupanatinga with evenness indices equal to 0.92. However, among isolates of Aspergillus the evenness found in Tupanatinga was very close to that found in Ibimirim. This is probably due to the characteristics of the genus as well as the density of fungal isolates. Additionally, communities with high evenness tend to have low dominance among species, since the evenness measure is related to the distribution of sampled individuals with the number of species (Cullen, Rudran, & Valladares-Padua, 2004).

De Fede, Panaccione and Sextone (2001) and Grayston, Grifftih, Mawdesley, Campebell, and Bardgett (2001) found that in soils with high organic matter content, the microbial population tends to remain more stable over a period, probably owing to the wealth of ecological niches and variety of carbon sources. In the present study, the highest content of organic matter in the soil was found in Tupanatinga, and the pH of the soils was acidic (Table 1), differing from Moreira and Siqueira (2006) who found that the soils of dry or semi-arid regions are usually alkaline.

In Brazil, most of the work has been carried out in humid environments, so the results of this research contribute to the provision of information on the diversity of fungi in soils of dry environments as well as on the mycodiversity of Caatinga soils. The microorganisms, including fungi, are the first organisms to demonstrate the effects of changes in an environment on large populations and on ease of dispersion, beyond the short generation time. The results suggest that the diversity of the fungal community in the soil may become reduced in soils that have undergone some sort of disturbance such as removal of native vegetation. Thus, the preservation of some impacted areas is essential for the resilience of the ecosystem. The isolation and identification of fungi in soils, as well as being fundamental to the taxonomic survey, can lead to the development of studies on the biotechnological potential of these organisms and their ecological relationship with the environment.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was carried out with support from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). We thank the Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA)/Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) for their permission to collect soil samples in the study area and the Mycology Department (CCB/UFPE) and Platform of Sequencing (LABCEN/CCB/UFPE) for the use of its facilities.

RESUMEN

Aspergillus y Penicillium (Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae) en suelos de un bosque seco tropical brasileño: diversidad en un área protegida. El suelo es un sistema biológico complejo, que desempeña un papel fundamental en las plantas y los animales, especialmente en los bosques secos como la Caatinga. Los hongos del suelo, tales como Aspergillus y Penicillium, pueden ser utilizados como bioindicadores para la conservación de la biodiversidad. El objetivo de este estudio fue aislar e identificar las especies de Aspergillus y Penicillium del suelo, en los municipios de Ibimirim y Tupanatinga en el Parque Nacional Catimbau. Cinco colecciones se llevaron a cabo en cada área durante la estación seca de 2012, un total de 25 muestras de suelos por área. Los hongos fueron aislados mediante la suspensión en agua destilada estéril y se sembraron en medio de cultivo Agar Sabouraud más Cloranfenicol y Rosa de Bengala, y también en el medio Agar Dicloran Glicerol. Los aislamientos fueron identificados en el Laboratorio de Colección de Hongos y se confirmaron por secuenciación del espaciador transcrito interno de ADN. Un total de 42 especies fueron identificadas, 22 de ellas pertenecientes al género Aspergillus y 20 al género Penicillium. Los aislamientos de Penicillium mostraron una distribución uniforme en Tupanatinga con índices de uniformidad entre 0.92 y 0.88 en Ibimirim. Entre los aislamientos de Aspergillus el valor encontrado en Tupanatinga (0.85) fue muy similar al encontrado en Ibimirim (0.86). Se observó una gran diversidad y bajo predominio de hongos en las muestras de suelo. Estos resultados contribuyen a la estimación de la diversidad de hongos en ambientes secos, especialmente en la Caatinga, donde la diversidad es decreciente en los suelos que han sufrido alteraciones.

 

Palabras clave: Catimbau, Caatinga, hongos, riqueza, taxonomía.

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TABLE 1

Chemical properties of soils collected in the municipalities of Tupanatinga and Ibimirim in Brazilian tropical

dry forest in the National Park Catimbau-Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2012

 

Zone	Chemical properties
	mg dm3						cmolc dm3					%
	Fe	Cu	Zn	Mn	P	pH	K	Na	Al	Ca	Mg	MO
Tupanatinga	107.40	0.40	0.50	2.20	7	4.2	0.1	0.43	0.8	0.80	0.30	3.84
Ibimirim	57.40	0.20	3.80	24.30	8	6.2	0.54	0.05	0.0	5.80	0.30	1.84

 

Iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), aluminum (Al),

calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), organic matter (OM).

TABLE 2

Colony Forming Units, absolute frequency (fa) and relative abundance (%) of species of Aspergillus and Penicillium isolated from soils in the municipalities of Tupanatinga (A) and Ibimirim (B) in Brazilian tropical dry forest in the National Park Catimbau-Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2012

 

Táxon	1st occurrence for Caatinga’s soil		Tupanatinga			Ibimirim			Overall analysis
	A	B	fa	%	Clas.	fa	%	Clas.	fa	%	Clas.
Aspergillus aculeatus Iizuka			130	5.14	A	23	3.78	A	153	4.87	A
A. allahabadii B.S. Mehrotra & Agnihotri			63	2.49	C	11	1.81	C	74	2.36	C
A. aureolus Fennell & Raper	X	X	14	0.55	O	7	1.15	O	21	0.67	O
A. aureoterreus Thom & Raper	X		25	0.99	O	0	0.00	-	25	0.80	O
A. caelatus BW Horn	X	X	7	0.28	R	10	1.64	C	17	0.54	O
A. flavus Link			154	6.08	A	4	0.66	O	158	5.03	A
A. fumigatus Fresen			55	2.17	C	14	2.30	C	69	2.20	C
A. insuetus (Bainier) Thom & Church			5	0.20	R	5	0.82	O	10	0.32	R
A. lentilus Balajee & K.A. Marr	X		21	0.83	O	0	0.00	-	21	0.67	O
A. nidulans Fennell & Raper	X	X	9	0.36	R	4	0.66	O	13	0.41	R
A. niger Tiegh			160	6.32	A	43	7.07	A	203	6.47	A
A. niveus Blochwitz			1	0.04	R	0	0.00	-	1	0.03	R
A. pulvinus Kwon-Chung & Fennell			53	2.09	C	0	0.00	-	53	1.69	C
A. recurvatus Raper & Fennell		X	0	0.00	-	6	0.99	O	6	0.19	R
A. ruber Thom & Church	X		4	0.16	R	0	0.00	-	4	0.13	R
A. sydowii (Bainier & Sartory) Thom & Church			6	0.24	R	2	0.33	R	8	0.25	R
A. tamarii Kita			155	6.12	A	19	3.13	A	174	5.54	A
A. terreus Thom			71	2.81	C	22	3.62	A	93	2.96	C
A. versicolor (Vuill.)Tirab.			11	0.43	R	6	0.99	O	17	0.54	O
A. violaceofuscus Gasperini			73	2.88	C	52	8.55	A	125	3.98	A
A. viridinutans Ducker & Thrower	X	X	77	3.04	A	7	1.15	O	84	2.68	C
A. westerdijkiae Frisvad & Samson	X		49	1.94	C	0	0.00	-	49	1.56	C
Penicillium adametzii K.M. Zalessky			89	3.52	A	53	8.72	A	142	4.52	A
P. aurantiogriseum Dierckx			119	4.70	A	5	0.82	O	124	3.95	A
P. bilaiae Chalab			32	1.26	O	6	0.99	O	38	1.21	O
P. citreonigrum Dierckx			153	6.05	A	19	3.13	A	172	5.48	A
P. citrinum Sopp			159	6.28	A	44	7.24	A	203	6.47	A
P. corylophilum Dierckx			138	5.45	A	14	2.30	C	152	4.84	A
P. decumbens Thom			20	0.79	O	12	1.97	C	32	1.02	O
P. griseofulvum Dierckx			95	3.75	A	51	8.39	A	146	4.65	A
P. implicatum Dierckx			41	1.62	C	0	0.00	-	41	1.31	O
P. janczewskii Zaleski			83	3.28	A	0	0.00	-	83	2.64	C
P. janthinellum Biourge			77	3.04	A	4	0.66	O	81	2.58	C
P. miczynskii K.M. Zalessky Stolk & D.B. Scott	X	X	40	1.58	C	9	1.48	O	49	1.56	C
P. minioluteum Dierckx			57	2.25	C	62	10.20	A	119	3.79	A
P. restrictium J.C. Gilman & E.V. Abbott			99	3.91	A	0	0.00	-	99	3.15	A
P. sclerotiorum Beyma	X	X	66	2.61	C	9	1.48	O	75	2.39	C
P.simplicissimum (Oudem.)Thom			10	0.40	R	11	1.81	C	21	0.67	O
P. spinulosum Thom			26	1.03	O	48	7.89	A	74	2.36	C
P. verruculosum Peyronel			55	2.17	C	16	2.63	C	71	2.26	C
P. vinaceum J.C. Gilman & E.V. Abbott			23	0.91	O	0	0.00	-	23	0.73	O
P. waksmanii K.M. Zalessky			6	0.24	R	10	1.64	C	16	0.51	O
TOTAL			2531	100		608	100		3139	100

 

Classification of species occurrence: rare (R), occasional (O), common (C) and abundant (A).

TABLE 3

Species richness, Shannon-Wiener’s Diversity (H’), Pielou’s Equitability (J’) and Berger-Parker’s Dominance (d)

of Aspergillus (A) and Penicillium (P) isolated from soils of the counties of Tupanatinga and Ibimirim in Catimbau National Park during the dry season of 2012

 

Zone	Richness		Diversity		Equitability		Dominance
	A	P	A	P	A	P	A	P
Tupanatinga	21	20	2.6	2.7	0.85	0.92	0.14	0.11
Ibimirim	16	16	2.4	2.4	0.86	0.88	0.22	0.17