Authors
Fábio Z. Farneda, Ricardo Rocha, Adrià López-Baucells, Milou Groenenberg, Inês Silva, Paulo Estefano Dineli Palmeirim, Jorge M., Bobrowiec, Christoph F. J. Meyer
Publication date
2015/7/16
Journal
Jounal of Applied Ecology
Volume
52
Issue
5
Pages
1381-1391
Description
- Understanding how interspecific variation in functional traits influences species’ capacity to persist in fragments and use patches in fragmented landscapes is fundamental for the creation of effective conservation plans. This study uses phylogenetic comparative methods to investigate which functional traits of bat species are correlated with their vulnerability to fragmentation in a tropical landscape with low fragment–matrix contrast.
- Bats were captured over two years in eight forest fragments, nine control sites in continuous forest, and in the secondary forest matrix at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Central Amazon, Brazil. We tested the hypothesis that there is a significant relationship between species functional traits, environmental gradients (continuous forest and fragment interiors, edges and matrix) and patterns of species distribution using phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS …
Scholar articles
FZ Farneda, R Rocha, A López‐Baucells… - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2015