Patch landscape size effects on functional and phylogenetic diversity thresholds for Atlantic Forest small mammals

• Grant number: 14/18800-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: January 18, 2015
• End date: October 27, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
• Grantee: Ricardo Siqueira Bovendorp
• Supervisor: Robert A. McCleery
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Florida, Gainesville (UF), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/25441-0 - Changes in functional and phylogenetic diversity of small mammals in defaunated Atlantic Forest landscapes, BP.PD

Abstract

Despite conservation efforts, the biodiversity loss is happening rapidly at regional and global scales, especially in biodiversity hotspots, like the Atlantic Forest. These loses have been attributed to increasing of disturbances, such as species overexploitation, fragmentation, destruction of habitats, invasion by alien species and the removal of large mammals. Small mammals can often be overlooked but 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 fragmentation and habitat loss will trigger lack habitat specialist and increase habitat generalist species of non-volant small mammals. Research suggests indicates that changes in the functional and phylogenetic diversity in different organisms are of highest importance for better understanding of: (a) the density and richness, (b) community compositions, and (c) the functions performed by the species in response fragmentation. Our goal for this study is to determine if the functional and phylogenetic diversity of small mammals can be explained by patch landscape size and if this relationship is linear or have critical thresholds. Thus, permitting to indicate priority areas for conservation based on the amount of ecological functions that the forest remnants still retain. (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)

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)

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)