Changes in functional and phylogenetic diversity of small mammals in defaunated Atlantic Forest landscapes

• Grant number: 13/25441-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): December 10, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
• Grantee: Ricardo Siqueira Bovendorp
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/18800-6 - Patch landscape size effects on functional and phylogenetic diversity thresholds for Atlantic Forest small mammals, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Despite conservation efforts, the biodiversity loss is still happening quickly at regional or global scales, especially in hotspots like Atlantic Forest, due to increasing of disturbances, such as species overexploitation, destruction of habitats, invasion by alien species and large mammals removal. Small mammals play an important role in forest dynamics and they are good indicators of both local and landscape changes. Several conceptual models have suggested that the extinction of large mammals will trigger an increase in the populations of small rodents, due to predation and competition release. Recent studies report that fragmentation and defaunation affect the composition and diversity of small mammals in the Atlantic Forest, however, there is no information about the changes in functional diversity (the value and variation of species and their characteristics that influence the functioning of communities) and phylogenetic (measure the diversity of a community that incorporates phylogenetic relationships of the species) for the Biome. Currently studies also indicate that knowledge of changes in the functional and phylogenetic diversity in different organisms are of highest importance for better understanding: (a) the density and richness presented, (b) the compositions favoring some species, and (c) the several functions performed by the species, altering the functionality and therefore the ecological services provided by the ecosystem. Thus, this postdoctoral project aims investigate changes in functional and phylogenetic diversity of small rodents in defaunated Atlantic Forest landscapes. We will generate and analyze a dataset of traits available in the literature for Atlantic Forest small rodents; and we will calculate phylogenetic and functional diversity values for faunated and defaunated landscapes in order to point out the changes and/or losses in the group. Specifically, we intend to obtain a scenario of functional and phylogenetic diversity for small rodents in defaunated Atlantic Forest landscapes. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; SABINO-SANTOS JR, GILBERTO; PRIST, PAULA R.; OSHIMA, JULIA E. F.; NIEBUHR, BERNARDO BRANDAO; SOBRAL-SOUZA, THADEU; DE OLIVEIRA, STEFAN VILGES; BOVENDORP, RICARDO SIQUEIRA; MARSHALL, JONATHAN C.; HAYMAN, DAVID T. S.; et al. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome Transmission Risk in Brazil. Viruses-Basel, v. 11, n. 11, NOV 2019. (16/02568-2, 17/11666-0, 13/25441-0, 17/21816-0, 15/17739-4, 13/50421-2)

MARJAKANGAS, EMMA-LIINA; ABREGO, NEREA; GROTAN, VIDAR; DE LIMA, RENATO A. F.; BELLO, CAROLINA; BOVENDORP, RICARDO S.; CULOT, LAURENCE; HASUI, ERICA; LIMA, FERNANDO; MUYLAERT, RENATA LARA; et al. Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant-animal interactions. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, v. 26, n. 2, NOV 2019. (14/18800-6, 14/14739-0, 13/08722-5, 17/08440-0, 14/01986-0, 13/25441-0, 17/21816-0, 15/17739-4, 17/09676-8, 13/50421-2)

BOVENDORP, RICARDO S.; MCCLEERY, ROBERT A.; GALETTI, MAURO. Optimising sampling methods for small mammal communities in Neotropical rainforests. MAMMAL REVIEW, v. 47, n. 2, p. 148-158, APR 2017. (13/25441-0, 14/01986-0, 14/18800-6)

BOVENDORP, RICARDO S.; BRUM, FERNANDA T.; MCCLEERY, ROBERT A.; BAISER, BENJAMIN; LOYOLA, RAFAEL; CIANCIARUSO, MARCUS V.; GALETTI, MAURO. Defaunation and fragmentation erode small mammal diversity dimensions in tropical forests. ECOGRAPHY, v. 42, n. 1, SI, p. 23-35, JAN 2019. (14/01986-0, 13/25441-0, 14/18800-6)

MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; BOVENDORP, RICARDO SIQUEIRA; SABINO-SANTOS, JR., GILBERTO; PRIST, PAULA R.; MELO, GERUZA LEAL; PRIANTE, CAMILA DE FATIMA; WILKINSON, DAVID A.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; HAYMAN, DAVID T. S.. Hantavirus host assemblages and human disease in the Atlantic Forest. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, v. 13, n. 8, AUG 2019. (17/11666-0, 13/25441-0, 17/21816-0, 15/17739-4, 13/50421-2)

BOVENDORP, RICARDO S.; BRUM, FERNANDA T.; MCCLEERY, ROBERT A.; BAISER, BENJAMIN; LOYOLA, RAFAEL; CIANCIARUSO, MARCUS V.; GALETTI, MAURO. Defaunation and fragmentation erode small mammal diversity dimensions in tropical forests. ECOGRAPHY, v. 42, n. 1, p. 13-pg., 2019-01-01. (14/01986-0, 13/25441-0, 14/18800-6)

DALAPICOLLA, JERONYMO; ABREU, EDSON FIEDLER; DO PRADO, JOYCE RODRIGUES; CHIQUITO, ELISANDRA DE ALMEIDA; DE OLIVEIRA ROTH, PAULO RICARDO; DE GOES BRENNAND, PAMELLA GUSMAO; D'OLIVEIRA PAVAN, ANA CAROLINA; PEREIRA, ALEX; MENDES, FABIANA ROCHA; DEL VALLE ALVAREZ, MARTIN ROBERTO; et al. reas of endemism of small mammals are underprotected in the Atlantic Fores. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 102, n. 5, p. 1390-1404, OCT 2021. (10/14633-7, 16/24464-4, 16/20055-2, 13/25441-0, 14/01986-0, 14/18800-6, 15/02853-6, 12/15928-6)

ANDRE, CLARIANA LIMA; CORTES, MARINA CORREA; HEMING, NEANDER MARCEL; GALETTI, MAURO; CRUZ ALVES, RAFAEL SOUZA; BOVENDORP, RICARDO SIQUEIRA. Bamboo shapes the fine-scale richness, abundance, and habitat use of small mammals in a forest fragment. MAMMAL RESEARCH, JAN 2022. (13/25441-0)