Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: Data from a global camera trap network

Autor: Francesco Rovero, Sandy J. Andelman, Emanuel H. Martin, Douglas Sheil, Chris Hallam, Badru Mugerwa, Timothy G. O'Brien, Wilson Roberto Spironello, Alex McWilliam, Jorge A. Ahumada, Nurul L. Winarni, Johanna Hurtado, Krisna Gajapersad, Carlos A. Silva
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
Tropical forests
Ecosystem Health
Biodiversity
Baseline Conditions
Tanzania
Tropic Climate
Ecosystem services
Trees
Habitat Use
Conservation Planning
Environmental Risk
Photography
Uganda
Functional Group
Research Articles
Mammals
Ecosystem health
Suriname
Ecology
Camera traps
Ecosystem Service
Geography
Laos
Mammalia
Species evenness
Public data
Habitat Fragmentation
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Tree
Costa Rica
Species Evenness
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Mammal
parasitic diseases
Tropical Forest
Animals
Comparative Study
Ecosystem diversity
Community Structure
Dominance
Ecosystem
Terrestrial mammals
Tropical Climate
Global Perspective
Bioindicator
Animal
Brasil
Methodology
Species diversity
Species Diversity
Occupancy
Global network
Growth
Development And Aging
Indonesia
Camera trap
Species richness
Species Richness
Zdroj: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1578), 2703-2711
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 (2011) 1578
Repositório Institucional do INPA
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
instacron:INPA
ISSN: 0962-8436
Popis: Terrestrial mammals are a key component of tropical forest communities as indicators of ecosystem health and providers of important ecosystem services. However, there is little quantitative information about how they change with local, regional and global threats. In this paper, the first standardized pantropical forest terrestrial mammal community study, we examine several aspects of terrestrial mammal species and community diversity (species richness, species diversity, evenness, dominance, functional diversity and community structure) at seven sites around the globe using a single standardized camera trapping methodology approach. The sites-located in Uganda, Tanzania, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Suriname, Brazil and Costa Rica-are surrounded by different landscape configurations, from continuous forests to highly fragmented forests. We obtained more than 51 000 images and detected 105 species of mammals with a total sampling effort of 12 687 camera trap days. We find thatmammal communities from highly fragmented sites have lower species richness, species diversity, functional diversity and higher dominance when compared with sites in partially fragmented and continuous forest. We emphasize the importance of standardized camera trapping approaches for obtaining baselines for monitoring forest mammal communities so as to adequately understand the effect of global, regional and local threats and appropriately inform conservation actions. © 2011 The Royal Society.
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