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Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes
Functional diversity is the variability in the functional roles carried out by species within ecosystems. Changes in the environment can affect this component of biodiversity and can, in turn, affect different processes, including some ecosystem services. This study aimed to determine the effect of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27926923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166765 |
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author | García-Morales, Rodrigo Moreno, Claudia E. Badano, Ernesto I. Zuria, Iriana Galindo-González, Jorge Rojas-Martínez, Alberto E. Ávila-Gómez, Eva S. |
author_facet | García-Morales, Rodrigo Moreno, Claudia E. Badano, Ernesto I. Zuria, Iriana Galindo-González, Jorge Rojas-Martínez, Alberto E. Ávila-Gómez, Eva S. |
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description | Functional diversity is the variability in the functional roles carried out by species within ecosystems. Changes in the environment can affect this component of biodiversity and can, in turn, affect different processes, including some ecosystem services. This study aimed to determine the effect of forest loss on species richness, abundance and functional diversity of Neotropical bats. To this end, we identified six landscapes with increasing loss of forest cover in the Huasteca region of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. We captured bats in each landscape using mist nets, and calculated functional diversity indices (functional richness and functional evenness) along with species richness and abundance. We analyzed these measures in terms of percent forest cover. We captured 906 bats (Phyllostomidae and Mormoopidae), including 10 genera and 12 species. Species richness, abundance and functional richness per night are positively related with forest cover. Generalized linear models show that species richness, abundance and functional richness per night are significantly related with forest cover, while seasonality had an effect on abundance and functional richness. Neither forest cover nor season had a significant effect on functional evenness. All these findings were consistent across three spatial scales (1, 3 and 5 km radius around sampling sites). The decrease in species, abundance and functional richness of bats with forest loss may have implications for the ecological processes they carry out such as seed dispersal, pollination and insect predation, among others. |
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spelling | pubmed-51427892016-12-22 Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes García-Morales, Rodrigo Moreno, Claudia E. Badano, Ernesto I. Zuria, Iriana Galindo-González, Jorge Rojas-Martínez, Alberto E. Ávila-Gómez, Eva S. PLoS One Research Article Functional diversity is the variability in the functional roles carried out by species within ecosystems. Changes in the environment can affect this component of biodiversity and can, in turn, affect different processes, including some ecosystem services. This study aimed to determine the effect of forest loss on species richness, abundance and functional diversity of Neotropical bats. To this end, we identified six landscapes with increasing loss of forest cover in the Huasteca region of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. We captured bats in each landscape using mist nets, and calculated functional diversity indices (functional richness and functional evenness) along with species richness and abundance. We analyzed these measures in terms of percent forest cover. We captured 906 bats (Phyllostomidae and Mormoopidae), including 10 genera and 12 species. Species richness, abundance and functional richness per night are positively related with forest cover. Generalized linear models show that species richness, abundance and functional richness per night are significantly related with forest cover, while seasonality had an effect on abundance and functional richness. Neither forest cover nor season had a significant effect on functional evenness. All these findings were consistent across three spatial scales (1, 3 and 5 km radius around sampling sites). The decrease in species, abundance and functional richness of bats with forest loss may have implications for the ecological processes they carry out such as seed dispersal, pollination and insect predation, among others. Public Library of Science 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5142789/ /pubmed/27926923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166765 Text en © 2016 García-Morales et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article García-Morales, Rodrigo Moreno, Claudia E. Badano, Ernesto I. Zuria, Iriana Galindo-González, Jorge Rojas-Martínez, Alberto E. Ávila-Gómez, Eva S. Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes |
title | Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes |
title_full | Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes |
title_fullStr | Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes |
title_full_unstemmed | Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes |
title_short | Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes |
title_sort | deforestation impacts on bat functional diversity in tropical landscapes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27926923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166765 |
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