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Unveiling how herpetofauna cope with land‐use changes—Insights from forest‐cash...
dos Reis‐Silva, Francisco; Pizzigalli, Cristian; Seck, Sambu; Cabeza, Mar; Rainho, Ana; Rocha, Ricardo; Palmeirim, Ana FilipaAgricultural induced land-use change comprises a key driver of biodiversity loss across tropical forests. Guinea-Bissau, among Afrotropical West Africa, was formerly occupied by native forest-savanna mosaics. While savannas have long given place to traditional rice agroecosystems, forests are now being transformed into cashew monocultures at unprecedented rates. The ecological impact of such rapid change is lar...
The importance of indigenous territories for conserving bat diversity across th...
Fernandez-Llamazares, Álvaro; López-Baucells, Adriá; Velazco, Paúl; Gyawalli, Arun; Rocha, Ricardo; Terraube, Julien; Cabeza, Marrainforest for millennia. How-ever, evaluations of how much biodiversity is governed under Indigenous stewardship are scarce. Here,we integrate geospatial data of officially recognized ITs across the Amazon biogeographic boundarieswith the distribution range of >200 Amazonian bat species, to: (i) assess the potential contribution of ITsfor the conservation of this species-rich mammalian group across the Amazon;...
Climate change threatens European conservation areas
Araújo, Miguel B.; Alagador, Diogo; Cabeza, Mar; Nogués-Bravo, David; Thuiller, WilfriedEurope has the world’s most extensive network of conservation areas. Conservation areas are selected without taking into account the effects of climate change. How effectively would such areas conserve biodiversity under climate change? We assess the effectiveness of protected areas and the Natura 2000 network in conserving a large proportion of European plant and terrestrial vertebrate species under climate ch...
Revisiting niche fundamentals with Tukey depth
Cerdeira, Jorge O.; Monteiro-Henriques, Tiago; Martins, Maria J.; Silva, Pedro C.; Alagador, Diogo; Franco, Aldina M.; Campagnolo, Manuel L.The first attempts to describe species ecological niches were simple geometric procedures that depict the niche boundaries directly from environmental data. The convex hull was one of such procedures, popular for its simplicity, clear ecological rational and precise definition of the niche. However, it lacked the ability to differentiate areas of the niche with different probabilities of occurrence according to...
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...
Movement seasonality in a desert-dwelling bat revealed by miniature GPS loggers
Conenna, Irene; López-Baucells, Adrià; Rocha, Ricardo; Ripperger, Simon; Cabeza, MarBackground Bats are among the most successful desert mammals. Yet, our understanding of their spatio-temporal dynamics in habitat use associated with the seasonal oscillation of resources is still limited. In this study, we have employed state-of-the-art lightweight GPS loggers to track the yellow-winged bat Lavia frons in a desert in northern Kenya to investigate how seasonality in a desert affects the a) spat...
Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar?
Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; López-Baucells, Adrià; Rocha, Ricardo; Andriamitandrina, Santatra F. M.; Andriatafika, Zo Emmanuel; Burgas, DanielDespite conservation discourses in Madagascar increasingly emphasizing the role of customary institutions for wildlife management, we know relatively little about their effectiveness. Here, we used semi-structured interviews with 54 adults in eight villages to investigate whether sacred caves and taboos offer conservation benefits for cave-dwelling bats in and around Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south-west M...
Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragment...
Rocha, Ricardo; Ovaskainen, Otso; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Sampaio, Erica M.; Bobrowiec, Paulo E. D.; Cabeza, Mar; Palmeirim, Jorge M.Tropical 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...
Linking like with like: optimising connectivity between environmentally-similar...
Alagador, Diogo; Triviño, Maria; Cerdeira, Jorge Orestes; Braz, Raul; Cabeza, Mar; Araújo, Miguel BastosHabitat fragmentation is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. To minimise the effect of fragmentation on biodiversity, connectivity between otherwise isolated habitats should be promoted. However, the identification of linkages favouring connectivity is not trivial. Firstly, they compete with other land uses, so they need to be cost-efficient. Secondly, linkages for one species might be barriers for oth...