All Outputs (8)

Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats (2019)
Journal Article

Human land-use changes are particularly extensive in tropical regions, representing one of the greatest threats to terrestrial biodiversity and a key research topic in conservation. However, studies considering the effects of different types of anthr... Read More about Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats.

Erosion of phylogenetic diversity in Neotropical bat assemblages : findings from a whole-ecosystem fragmentation experiment (2019)
Journal Article

The traditional focus on taxonomic diversity metrics for investigating species responses to habitat loss and fragmentation has limited our understanding of how biodiversity is impacted by habitat modification. This is particularly true for taxonomic... Read More about Erosion of phylogenetic diversity in Neotropical bat assemblages : findings from a whole-ecosystem fragmentation experiment.

Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation (2019)
Journal Article
Núñez, S., López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Farneda, F., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2019). Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 373. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00373

Habitat 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 conse... Read More about Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation.

Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography (2019)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Grelle, C., Rocha, R., Ferreira, D., López-Baucells, A., & Meyer, C. (2020). Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography. Ecography, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04507

We investigate how variation in patch area and forest cover quantified for three different spatial scales (buffer size of 500, 1500 and 3000 m radius) affects species richness and functional diversity of bat assemblages in two ecosystems differing in... Read More about Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography.

Second-growth and small forest clearings have little effect on the temporal activity patterns of Amazonian phyllostomid bats (2019)
Journal Article

Secondary forests and human-made forest gaps are conspicuous features of tropical landscapes. Yet, behavioural responses to these aspects of anthropogenically-modified forests remain poorly investigated. Here, we analyse th... Read More about Second-growth and small forest clearings have little effect on the temporal activity patterns of Amazonian phyllostomid bats.

FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments (2019)
Journal Article

Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragme... Read More about FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments.

A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios (2019)
Journal Article
Carvalho, J., Graham, B., Rebelo, H., Bocksberger, G., Meyer, C., Wich, S., & Kühl, H. (2019). A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios. Global Change Biology, 25(9), 3163-3178. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14671

Primates are facing an impending extinction crisis, driven by extensive habitat loss, land use change, and hunting. Climate change is an additional threat, which alone or in combination with other drivers, may severely impact those taxa unable to tra... Read More about A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios.

Bats and the city : urban bat biodiversity in a tropical biome transition zone (2019)
Thesis
Syme, P. Bats and the city : urban bat biodiversity in a tropical biome transition zone. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Urbanisation is an important factor in global land-use change which dramatically alters habitats at great detriment to wildlife. Our understanding of urban biodiversity patterns and their driving factors in tropical cities which interact with high le... Read More about Bats and the city : urban bat biodiversity in a tropical biome transition zone.