Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1111/mam.12382
Ioannis Ekklisiarchos, Danilo Russo, Panagiotis Georgiakakis
{"title":"Forest and Isolation Determine Bat Species Richness on Mediterranean Islands: Conservation Implications","authors":"Ioannis Ekklisiarchos, Danilo Russo, Panagiotis Georgiakakis","doi":"10.1111/mam.12382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12382","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study of island species richness has gone far beyond traditional theories, as more and more studies attempt to include new predictor variables besides island area. Despite the rich bat diversity of Mediterranean islands, no studies have examined the factors influencing chiropteran species richness in such a geographic context.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We used Greek islands as a model to detect drivers of bat species richness based on a broad species occurrence dataset from islands of the Aegean and Ionian Seas, which was explored using 10 potential predictor variables.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Materials and Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Initially, we comprehensively evaluated all available data and sources for 53 Greek islands, deemed essential. This resulted in a reduced set of 28 islands. Predictors were grouped into three categories: island area, landscape diversity and island isolation. Generalised linear models were employed to identify the most significant factors explaining bat species richness in the 28 islands.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tree cover and the distance between the islands and their nearest coast (mainland or island) best performed to predict bat species richness on Greek islands.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Discussion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We show the important role of landscape composition and degree of isolation in influencing the distribution of bat species on islands.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We highlight the importance of forest habitats and the vital role of their management and protection, especially in the insular systems of the Mediterranean basin, where the risk of forest degradation or loss due to wildfires and land use change is especially high.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mam.12382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1111/mam.12381
Darlan da Silva, Diego Verzi, Pablo Ariel Martinez
{"title":"Differential climatic niche diversification processes in South American rodents (Octodontoidea) across tropical and extratropical regions","authors":"Darlan da Silva, Diego Verzi, Pablo Ariel Martinez","doi":"10.1111/mam.12381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12381","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Studying niche evolution becomes central to understanding the processes driving species diversification along latitudinal gradients. Octodontoidea rodents serve as a model group for understanding how the colonisation of extratropical regions has shaped the climatic niche evolution of species.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We analyse the time and mode of climatic niche evolution among different Octodontoidea lineages to understand how niche evolutionary processes operate across the spatial gradient of the Neotropical region.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We constructed ecological niche models for living Octodontoidea species to assess the timing and mode of climatic niche evolution across tropical and extratropical lineages. We estimated niche similarity and correlated it with species divergence times, and estimated the rate of climatic niche diversification across lineages.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Our results show a trend of greater niche overlap in more recent lineages and lower niche overlap in older lineages. However, extratropical lineages exhibit lower climatic niche overlaps. From diversification analysis, we detected that the Ctenomyidae group shows higher rates of niche diversification, whereas the tropical Echimyidae group exhibits the lowest rates of climatic niche diversification.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Our results support the idea that the lineages restricted to tropical regions tend towards niche conservatism. However, some tropical lineages have successfully colonised extratropical regions, and this colonisation has been accompanied by strong selective pressures, leading to higher rates of niche diversification and lower climatic niche overlap among species.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1111/mam.12380
Radek K. Lučan, Tomáš Jor, Dušan Romportl, Federico Morelli
{"title":"Use of synanthropic roosts by bats in Europe and North America","authors":"Radek K. Lučan, Tomáš Jor, Dušan Romportl, Federico Morelli","doi":"10.1111/mam.12380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mam.12380","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1111/mam.12378
Vagner Lacerda Vasquez, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Míriam Plaza Pinto
{"title":"Atlantic Forest primates and their main food resources","authors":"Vagner Lacerda Vasquez, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Míriam Plaza Pinto","doi":"10.1111/mam.12378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12378","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Primates are arboreal and semi-arboreal species, highly dependent on vascular plants. Primate diets typically include plant parts, such as fruits and leaves. Knowledge of the most consumed items is essential for this highly threatened group, especially in the deforested and fragmented Atlantic Forest.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Our aim was to synthesise the knowledge about food resources of Atlantic Forest primates. We investigated the temporal and spatial distribution of studies with information on diet, the main taxa recorded as food resources, and the parts of plants most consumed by these primates.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We searched for published literature containing food resource records for primates in the <i>Web of Science</i> and screened <i>Neotropical Primates</i> volumes.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>96% of the food records were from plants, mainly fruits (50%), leaves (31%) and flowers (14%). Most plant species, genera and families have few records. The families most recorded were Myrtaceae (<i>n</i> = 440) and Fabaceae (<i>n</i> = 392), and the genera were <i>Eugenia</i> (<i>n</i> = 123), <i>Inga</i> (<i>n</i> = 113), <i>Ficus</i> (<i>n</i> = 109) and <i>Myrcia</i> (<i>n</i> = 102). A few primate species with long-standing conservation programs or population monitoring had the highest number of food resource records. Study sites generally cover only a small part of the geographic range of the primate species, indicating a geographic bias.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Our findings highlight the scarcity of research on the Atlantic Forest primate diet, which is especially concerning for threatened species such as <i>Callithrix aurita</i> and <i>Leontopithecus caissara</i>, which only had natural history notes on food resources, and <i>Sapajus robustus</i>, which had no records.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>The information synthesised here can be useful for planning and executing more efficient Atlantic Forest restoration plans, considering the key plant species for the primate diet. We reinforce the need to conduct more research on the diets of Atlantic Forest primates, as this knowledge can contribute to the understanding of the plasticity and physiology of organisms.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1111/mam.12374
Ángel C. Domínguez-García, Adrián Álvarez-Vena, César Laplana, Paloma Sevilla, Jacinto Román, Josep Francesc Bisbal-Chinesta, Javier Calzada, M. Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, Luis Benítez De Lugo Enrich
{"title":"Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white-toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record","authors":"Ángel C. Domínguez-García, Adrián Álvarez-Vena, César Laplana, Paloma Sevilla, Jacinto Román, Josep Francesc Bisbal-Chinesta, Javier Calzada, M. Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, Luis Benítez De Lugo Enrich","doi":"10.1111/mam.12374","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mam.12374","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mam.12374","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141868406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1111/mam.12375
Andrea Sforzi, Laura Viviani
{"title":"Use of lure sticks for non-invasive genetic sampling of European wildcat populations: lessons learnt and hints for future insights","authors":"Andrea Sforzi, Laura Viviani","doi":"10.1111/mam.12375","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mam.12375","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1111/mam.12376
Alberto Astiazarán-Azcárraga, Christian Alejandro Delfín-Alfonso, Andrés Lira-Noriega, David A. Prieto-Torres, Sonia Gallina-Tessaro
{"title":"Neotropical non-primate canopy mammals: historical trends, omissions, and geographic gaps in the knowledge","authors":"Alberto Astiazarán-Azcárraga, Christian Alejandro Delfín-Alfonso, Andrés Lira-Noriega, David A. Prieto-Torres, Sonia Gallina-Tessaro","doi":"10.1111/mam.12376","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mam.12376","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Canopy mammals constitute a diverse and widely distributed group. However, these species have not been widely studied, and there are currently many gaps in our knowledge of their ecology, behaviour, distribution, and conservation status.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We identified crucial trends and omissions in terms of research effort on research themes, taxonomic groups, countries, and protected areas (PAs) and geographic information biases.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>A systematic review was conducted by consulting two electronic databases (Web of Science and Scopus), including research conducted within neotropical countries (from central Mexico to northern Argentina) until the end of the first half of 2021. All the references obtained were reviewed and categorised, and the geographical location of each study was extracted to evaluate geographical gaps.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We found that two orders (Carnivora and Didelphimorphia) and three families (Didelphidae, Felidae, and Cricetidae) were the most studied taxa, and were featured in more than 50% of cases. Brazil had the highest number of studies. Topics concerning diseases (19% of cases), distribution (14%), and ecology (14%) were the most frequently addressed; only 4.6% of the studies focused on anthropogenic disturbances, and less than 30% of the studies were conducted within PAs.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We found that one of the largest and most important geographical biases in knowledge was in the northern Amazon region, where the number of studies was low or null.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>This study lays the groundwork for future research on these understudied mammals, to develop better research that can allow us to design more appropriate conservation strategies.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mammal ReviewPub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1111/mam.12373
Przemysław Kurek, Blanka Wiatrowska, Agnieszka Ważna, Hans Vink
{"title":"Setts of European badger Meles meles in open habitats: trend or exception?","authors":"Przemysław Kurek, Blanka Wiatrowska, Agnieszka Ważna, Hans Vink","doi":"10.1111/mam.12373","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mam.12373","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reports on the location of badger setts generally focussed on woodland habitats and paid little attention to open areas. There was a negative correlation between the number of setts in open landscape and the proportion of forest cover with an inflection point at 25–35%. A higher proportion of badger setts in open habitats is observed when forest cover is below the inflection point. The location of setts in the open landscape results from the dominance of these habitats and the low availability of woodland and that is a permanent aspect of badger behaviour and not a short-term trend.</p>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}