1. The role of protected and unprotected forest remnants for mammal conservation in a megadiverse Neotropical hotspot
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Michel Barros Faria, Maíra Benchimol, Virgínia Londe de Camargos, Tathiane Santi Sarcinelli, Eliana Cazetta, Marcelo Magioli, Daniel da Silva Ferraz, Daniel Henrique Homem, Aluane Silva Ferreira, Henrique Gonçalves Santos, Lúcia Ângelo Machado Mendes, Yugo Matsuda, Whaldener Endo, João Gabriel Ribeiro Giovanelli, Priscilla Sales Gomes, Marcello S. Nery, Raisa Reis de Paula Rodarte, Maria Otávia Silva Crepaldi, Joana Zorzal Nodari, Christine Del Vechio Koike, Joedison Rocha, Christine Steiner São Bernardo, Diego Leal Abreu, Fernando Lima, Camila Righetto Cassano, Elaine Rios, Fernando César Gonçalves Bonfim, Gabriela Narezi, Helena Alves do Prado, Andrezza Bellotto Nobre, Marcelino Pinto Dias, Thais Fanttini Sagrillo Zuccolotto, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, Alvaro García-Olaechea, Priscila Coutinho Ribas Ferreira, Elson Fernandes de Lima, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Rodrigo de Almeida Nobre, Diogo Cavenague Casanova, Camila Cantagallo Devids, Rodrigo Borges, Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Casa da Floresta Ambiental, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisa Ecológicas, IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Seleção Natural – Inovação em Projetos Ambientais, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Instituto Ecótono (IEco), Rede Eco-Diversa para Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Muriqui Instituto de Biodiversidade (MIB), Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo - Campus Alegre, RPPN Estação Veracel, Suzano S.A. – Unidade Mucuri, and Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR)
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0106 biological sciences ,Assemblage composition ,Biomass (ecology) ,Relative abundance ,business.industry ,Ecology ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Distribution (economics) ,Species-area relationship ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Threatened species ,Geography ,Mammal ,Biomass ,Species richness ,Endemism ,business ,Patch size ,Relative species abundance ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Global biodiversity - Abstract
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:42:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-07-01 Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia Idea Wild Fundação Grupo Boticário de Proteção à Natureza Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia National Geographic Society The Brazilian Atlantic Forest of Southern Bahia is a megadiverse region given its remarkable number of species and endemism. Despite being a priority region for biodiversity conservation, the role of protected and unprotected forest remnants for long-term species conservation is unknown. Here, we unveil the main patterns of occurrence and distribution of medium- and large-sized mammals in remnants of the Atlantic Forest of Southern Bahia, to generate subsidies for applied conservation strategies. We recorded mammals using camera-traps, active search, and/or line-transect surveys and complemented our species list with literature data. We thus obtained information on richness attributes, relative abundance, and biomass of mammal species per forest remnant, compared assemblages in protected and unprotected areas, and finally investigated both species-area and biomass-area relationships. From 72 forest remnants assessed, we recorded 45 mammal species, including 19 threatened locally. Protected areas were richer in species, especially concerning threatened ones, and concentrated most of the mammal biomass, which presented consistently low values for most areas. The positive and significant species-area and biomass-area relationships further corroborate these patterns since protected areas are larger in size. Despite the historic anthropogenic pressures, we conclude that Southern Bahia still harbors an expressive mammal diversity, with protected areas being critical to maintain most of the species' richness and biomass across the entire region. Nevertheless, small unprotected remnants (
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- 2021