reas of endemism of small mammals are underprotected in the Atlantic Fores

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Dalapicolla, Jeronymo ^{[1, 2]} ; Abreu, Edson Fiedler ^[2] ; do Prado, Joyce Rodrigues ^[2] ; Chiquito, Elisandra de Almeida ^{[2, 3]} ; de Oliveira Roth, Paulo Ricardo ^[2] ; de Goes Brennand, Pamella Gusmao ^[2] ; D'Oliveira Pavan, Ana Carolina ^[2] ; Pereira, Alex ^[4] ; Mendes, Fabiana Rocha ^[5] ; del Valle Alvarez, Martin Roberto ^[6] ; Rios, Elson Oliveira ^[6] ; Cassano, Camila Righetto ^[7] ; Miretzki, Michel ^[8] ; Velez, Felipe ^[7] ; Seva, Anaia da Paixao ^[9] ; Percequillo, Alexandre Reis ^[2] ; Bovendorp, Ricardo Siqueira ^{[2, 7, 10]}

Affiliation

^[1] Inst Tecnol Vale, Desenvolvimento Sustentavel, Rua Boaventura da Silva 955, BR-66055090 Belem, Para - Brazil

^[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Lab Mamiferos, Dept Ciencias Biol, Escola Super Agr Luiz de Queiroz ESALQ, Av Padua Dias 11, BR-13418900 Piracicaba, SP - Brazil

^[3] Inst Nacl Mata Atlantica INMA, Av Jose Ruschi 4, BR-29650000 Santa Teresa, ES - Brazil

^[4] Bioconsultoria Gestao & Licenciamento Ambiental, Ave Tancredo Neves 274, Bloc B, Sala 427, BR-41820907 Salvador, BA - Brazil

^[5] Inst Neotrop Pesquisa & Conservacao INPCON, Rua Purus 33, BR-82520750 Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[6] Univ Estadual Santa Cruz UESC, Colecao Mamiferos Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira C, Dept Ciencias Biol, Rodovia Jorge Amado, Km16, BR-45662900 Ilheus, BA - Brazil

^[7] Univ Estadual Santa Cruz UESC, Lab Ecol Aplicada Conservacao, Dept Ciencias Biol, Rodovia Jorge Amado, Km16, BR-45662900 Ilheus, BA - Brazil

^[8] Univ Fed Parana UFPR, Dept Zool, Lab Biol & Ecol Vertebrados, Av Coronel Francisco H dos Santos 100, BR-81531980 Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[9] Univ Estadual Santa Cruz UESC, Dept Ciencias Exatas & Tecnol, Rodovia Jorge Amado, Km16, BR-45662900 Ilheus, BA - Brazil

^[10] Univ Estadual Paulista UNESP, Dept Ecol, Av 24 A, 1515, BR-13506900 Rio Claro - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY; v. 102, n. 5, p. 1390-1404, OCT 2021.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

Atlantic Forest (AF) is amongst the most threatened forests in the world. To decide where conservation efforts should be focused to preserve species, assessment of ecological and biogeographic processes nowadays are crucial. Patterns of the distribution of organisms can provide an important source of information underlying the biogeographical history of a biota. Here, our main objective was to identify Areas of Endemism (AoE) for non-volant small mammals in the AF and to investigate if those AoE are covered by protected areas. We performed quantitative and qualitative approaches to delimit AoE and calculated the area overlaid by Conservation Units (CU) within each AoE. Our results supported the recognition of seven AoE for small mammals in the AF, which largely are congruent with previous studies undertaken on other organisms, thereby highlighting the importance of those regions as hotspots of endemism. Most of the AoE recovered in the present study have less than 12% of their territory covered by forest remnants, and less than 11% of their entire range is under legal protection. These findings bring to light an important discussion on how information pertaining to the representativeness of CU within regions of high endemicity could help to identify areas in need of urgent protection within a threatened biodiversity hotspot. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/14633-7 - Non-volant small mammals of Estação Ecológica de Bananal: diversity and natural history
• Grantee: Edson Fiedler de Abreu Júnior
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• FAPESP's process: 16/24464-4 - Phylogeography of two sympatric species of spiny rats from the Western Amazon
• Grantee: Jeronymo Dalapicolla
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 16/20055-2 - Systematics and biogeography of the tribe Oryzomyini (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in South America
• Grantee: Alexandre Reis Percequillo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• FAPESP's process: 13/25441-0 - Changes in functional and phylogenetic diversity of small mammals in defaunated Atlantic Forest landscapes
• Grantee: Ricardo Siqueira Bovendorp
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 14/01986-0 - Ecological consequences of defaunation in the Atlantic Rainforest
• Grantee: Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 14/18800-6 - Patch landscape size effects on functional and phylogenetic diversity thresholds for Atlantic Forest small mammals
• Grantee: Ricardo Siqueira Bovendorp
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• FAPESP's process: 15/02853-6 - Integrative taxonomy of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimydae) from Western Amazon
• Grantee: Jeronymo Dalapicolla
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 12/15928-6 - Non-volant small mammals of Estação Ecológica de Bananal: molecular analyses
• Grantee: Edson Fiedler de Abreu Júnior
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree