Peninsular effect on species richness in Italian small mammals and bats
| Autor: | Silvio Marta, Giovanni Amori, Fabio Stoch, Corrado Battisti, Luca Luiselli, Paolo Agnelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
Latitude Ecologie Habitat heterogeneity Ecology Sciences et médecine vétérinaires 010607 zoology Eulipotyphla Rodentia Evolution des espèces Altitudinal range 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Research effort Spatial heterogeneity altitudinal range Chiroptera habitat heterogeneity latitude research effort Geography Animal Science and Zoology Species richness Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Mammalia Mammalia (Paris) 85 (2021): 248–255. doi:10.1515/mammalia-2019-0122 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Battisti C.; Marta S.; Agnelli P.; Luiselli L.; Stoch F.; Amori G./titolo:Peninsular effect on species richness in Italian small mammals and bats/doi:10.1515%2Fmammalia-2019-0122/rivista:Mammalia (Paris)/anno:2021/pagina_da:248/pagina_a:255/intervallo_pagine:248–255/volume:85 |
| ISSN: | 1864-1547 0025-1461 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/mammalia-2019-0122 |
| Popis: | Peninsular effect is an anomalous gradient in plant and animal species richness from base to tip of a given peninsula. This pattern has been studied intensely on various taxonomic groups, but with scarce attention for using standardized data. Here, using presence-absence data normalized by the field effort, the peninsular effect on the species richness of some mammalian groups (Eulipotyphla [i.e. Soricomorpha + Erinaceomorpha], Rodentia, and Chiroptera) was analyzed along the Italian peninsula. Specifically, species richness at each 30'-wide latitudinal band and the normalized species richness were compared, and generalized linear models (GLM) were used to assess whether habitat diversity, altitudinal range and area of each latitudinal band were the main predictors in explaining the peninsular effects in each of the three mammalian orders. In both Rodentia and Chiroptera, species richness was better predicted by habitat heterogeneity and by the interaction term habitat heterogeneity × field effort. For Eulipotyphla, GLM models gave no significant results. Our study highlighted the importance of taking into account the sampling effort in order to proper evaluate the peninsular effects on species richness in animals. SCOPUS: ar.j DecretOANoAutActif info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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