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The Road to Functional Recovery: Temporal Effects of Matrix Regeneration on Ama...
Farneda, Fábio Z.; Rocha, Ricardo; López-Baucells, Adrià; Sampaio, Erica M.; Palmeirim, Jorge Manuel; Bobrowiec, Paulo Estefano DineliAcross the tropics, vast deforested areas are undergoing forest regeneration due to land abandonment. Although secondary forest is an expanding type of landscape matrix that has been shown to buffer some of the negative consequences of forest loss and fragmentation on taxonomic diversity, little is known in this regard about the functional dimension of biodiversity. We took advantage of an ecosystem-wide fragme...
Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragment...
Rocha, Ricardo; Ovaskainen, Otso T.; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Sampaio, Erica M.; Bobrowiec, Paulo Estefano Dineli; Cabeza, MarTropical forest loss and fragmentation are due to increase in coming decades. Understanding how matrix dynamics, especially secondary forest regrowth, can lessen fragmentation impacts is key to understanding species persistence in modified landscapes. Here, we use a whole-ecosystem fragmentation experiment to investigate how bat assemblages are influenced by the regeneration of the secondary forest matrix. We s...
Echolocation and Stratum Preference: Key Trait Correlates of Vulnerability of I...
Núñez, Silvia Fraixedas; López-Baucells, Adrià; Rocha, Ricardo; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Bobrowiec, Paulo Estefano Dineli; Palmeirim, Jorge ManuelHabitat loss and fragmentation rank high amongst the most pressing threats to biodiversity. Understanding how variation in functional traits is associated with species vulnerability in fragmented landscapes is central to the design of effective conservation strategies. Here, we used a whole-ecosystem ecological experiment in the Central Amazon to investigate which functional traits of aerial-hawking insectivoro...
Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation
Ferreira, Diogo F.; Rocha, Ricardo; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Carreiras, João Manuel de Brito; Palmeirim, Jorge ManuelSeasonality causes fluctuations in resource availability, affecting the presence and abundance of animal species. The impacts of these oscillations on wildlife populations can be exacerbated by habitat fragmentation. We assessed differences in bat species abundance between the wet and dry season in a fragmented landscape in the Central Amazon characterized by primary forest fragments embedded in a secondary for...
Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropic...
Rocha, Ricardo; Ferreira, Diogo F.; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Carreiras, João Manuel de Brito; Palmeirim, Jorge ManuelUnderstanding the consequences of habitat modification on wildlife communities is central to the development of conservation strategies. However, albeit male and female individuals of numerous species are known to exhibit differences in habitat use, sex-specific responses to habitat modification remain little explored. Here, we used a landscape-scale fragmentation experiment to assess, separately for males and ...