Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems

M Schleuning, D García, JA Tobias - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits and associated trait‐based concepts have driven rapid innovation in
ecology over recent years, with most progress based on insights from plants. However …

Aerial insectivorous bat responses to 30 years of forest insularization in a dam-created Amazonian archipelagic landscape

R Di Ponzio, GT Colombo, T Bicudo, M Benchimol… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mega dams result in habitat loss and fragmentation in lowland tropical forests,
compromising the diversity and ecosystem functioning in remnant habitat islands. We …

Foraging guild modulates insectivorous bat responses to habitat loss and insular fragmentation in peninsular Malaysia

QCK Hazard, JSP Froidevaux, N Yoh, J Moore… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite mounting evidence on the ecological impacts of damming for biodiversity, little is
known regarding its consequences in the hyper-diverse Southeast Asian tropical forests …

Trait-mediated filtering predicts phyllostomid bat responses to habitat disturbance in the Orinoco Llanos

A Otálora-Ardila, FZ Farneda, CFJ Meyer… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Which functional traits allow a bat species to survive habitat disturbance? Empirical
evidence regarding this question remains limited for many tropical regions despite their …

Secondary forest buffers the effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bat species following 30 years of passive forest restoration

S Rowley, A López‐Baucells, R Rocha… - Restoration …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Passive forest restoration can buffer the effects of habitat loss on biodiversity. We
acoustically surveyed aerial insectivorous bats in a whole‐ecosystem fragmentation …

Better together: integrating mist-nets and bioacoustics reveals large-scale native vegetation as a key predictor of bat community conservation in a fragmented …

MCS Mancini, PED Bobrowiec, LL Oliveira… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and land conversion for human use are currently the main
drivers of biodiversity loss in the Neotropics. Agropastoral and silvicultural activities are …

Fear or food? Prey availability is more important than predation risk in determining aerial insectivorous bat responses across a disturbed tropical forest landscape

G Appel, CFJ Meyer, PED Bobrowiec - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2023 - Springer
Habitat disturbance affects, directly or indirectly, the predation risk and food available to
animals. One group of animals that may be negatively affected by habitat disturbance are …

[HTML][HTML] Little things, big consequences

JC Bicca-Marques - Primates, 2023 - Springer
You are in the forest, habituating a nonhuman primate group for your research. It is late in
the morning on a typical hot and humid tropical day. Clothes soaked, you are under the tree …

[HTML][HTML] Bat functional traits associated with environmental, landscape, and conservation variables in Neotropical dry forests

CA Díaz-B, A Otálora-Ardila… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. Bats' role in
those ecosystems is critical because of multiple bat-mediated processes. Such processes …

Functional diversity and trait-environment relationships of bat assemblages in an Amazonian forest-savannah mosaic

NM Kinap, FZ Farneda, RM Rabelo, E Bernard… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding the effects of long-term habitat fragmentation on functional diversity and trait
distributions is fundamental for effective conservation plans. In this study, we investigated …