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{"title":"Research Trends on Bats in Morocco: An Overview, Focusing on Gaps and Threats to Species Conservation","authors":"Youssef Dbiba,&nbsp;Mohamed Dakki,&nbsp;El Hassan El Mouden","doi":"10.1111/mam.12385","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mam.12385","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Moroccan bats are extensively studied in North Africa due to their ecological sensitivity, significant threats and increased field investigations related to wind energy development.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>This review updates the list of bat species, identifies key threats and examines research distribution patterns over time, regions, research topics, taxa and endemicity, highlighting gaps and setting future research priorities.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Between 1897 and 2024, around 136 information sources were produced, categorised into five research periods: four lasting about 30 years each and the fifth covering 2020–2024. These researches were analysed based on temporal, regional, topical, taxonomic and endemic trends.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>The most recent revision of Moroccan bats identified 29 species. With the addition of two new species and the renaming of one species, the current inventory now includes 31 species across eight families, three of which are endemic.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Research efforts varied over time, with ‘taxonomy and systematics’ being the most studied topic, focusing on classification, evolutionary relationships and species identification. Three genera (<i>Rhinolophus</i>, <i>Myotis</i> and <i>Pipistrellus</i>) appeared in 56% of the studies. Investigations cover progressively a wide geographic range, with a clear preference for Northern regions. However, topics like ‘diseases’ and ‘conservation’ were addressed in less than 10% of articles.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>To address major research gaps, we recommend in-depth studies on bat phenology, parasitology, habitat preferences and migrations. Special attention should be given to the causes of species decline, in both population size and geographical extent, focusing on habitat loss, human disturbances, individuals harvesting and possibly wind farms.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Crucial research needs are identified for 10 prior species: <i>Plecotus gaisleri</i>, <i>Miniopterus maghrebensis</i>, <i>Myotis capaccini</i>, <i>Rhinolophus mehelyi</i>, <i>Rhinolophus euryale</i>, <i>Miniopterus schreibersii, Myotis zenatius</i>, <i>Nyctalus lasiopterus,</i> <i>Barbastella barbastellus</i> and <i>Rhinolophus blasii</i>.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135463","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}

{"title":"Three Decades of Research on Iberian Wild Ungulates: Key Insights and Promising Research Avenues","authors":"João Carvalho,&nbsp;António Carpio,&nbsp;Ana M. Figueiredo,&nbsp;Carlos Fonseca,&nbsp;Eduardo Ferreira,&nbsp;Emmanuel Serrano,&nbsp;Isabel Barja,&nbsp;José Sánchez-Zapata,&nbsp;Juan Carranza,&nbsp;Laura Barbero Palacios,&nbsp;Lorena Ortiz-Jiménez,&nbsp;Luís Miguel Rosalino,&nbsp;Mariana Rossa,&nbsp;Mario Velamazán,&nbsp;Nuno Santos,&nbsp;Paulino Fandos,&nbsp;Pelayo Acevedo,&nbsp;Ramón Perea,&nbsp;Raquel Castillo-Contreras,&nbsp;Roberto Pascual-Rico,&nbsp;Saúl Jiménez-Ruiz,&nbsp;Rita Tinoco Torres","doi":"10.1111/mam.12384","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mam.12384","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>The Iberian Peninsula is witnessing ever-faster environmental changes, and new challenges for wild ungulates are continuously emerging as they become more abundant and widespread.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We conducted a systematic review to analyse the knowledge on wild ungulates inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula. We used Web of Science and Scopus search engines, complemented by searches in nonindexed journals, to examine peer-reviewed articles published between January 1990 and July 2023.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>The annual average growth rate in the number of publications was 17%. Most studies focussed on diseases and pathogens (36%), physiology, endocrinology and reproduction (19%), and behaviour, population and community ecology (17%). Red deer and wild boar are the most targeted species in scientific literature, followed by the Iberian wild goat, roe deer, fallow deer, Southern chamois, mouflon and aoudad.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We identify key knowledge gaps that deserve further attention such as the ecological and social impacts of (re)introductions, the effects of increasing ungulate densities on ecosystem integrity and the impact of different hunting and management techniques (some unique to the Iberian Peninsula) on population dynamics. We also highlight the need to stimulate Iberian collaboration and extend the discussion to a wider range of stakeholders to integrate different perspectives on the research agenda for Iberian wild ungulates.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135278","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}

{"title":"Seasonality in Reproduction and Reproductive Physiology of Caviomorphs","authors":"Anja Guenther,&nbsp;Patricia Tachinardi,&nbsp;Veronica Sandra Valentinuzzi,&nbsp;Raúl Sobrero,&nbsp;Ayelen T. Eberhardt,&nbsp;Fritz Trillmich","doi":"10.1111/mam.12383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mam.12383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292818","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}

{"title":"Forest and Isolation Determine Bat Species Richness on Mediterranean Islands: Conservation Implications","authors":"Ioannis Ekklisiarchos,&nbsp;Danilo Russo,&nbsp;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}

{"title":"Differential climatic niche diversification processes in South American rodents (Octodontoidea) across tropical and extratropical regions","authors":"Darlan da Silva,&nbsp;Diego Verzi,&nbsp;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}

{"title":"Use of synanthropic roosts by bats in Europe and North America","authors":"Radek K. Lučan,&nbsp;Tomáš Jor,&nbsp;Dušan Romportl,&nbsp;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}

{"title":"Using ELISA to detect pathogen antibodies in wild mammal carcasses: a systematic literature review","authors":"P.-É. Ruy,&nbsp;A. McDevitt,&nbsp;I. O'Connor,&nbsp;K. O'Dwyer","doi":"10.1111/mam.12379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12379","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49893,"journal":{"name":"Mammal Review","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292124","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}

{"title":"Atlantic Forest primates and their main food resources","authors":"Vagner Lacerda Vasquez,&nbsp;Raone Beltrão-Mendes,&nbsp;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}

{"title":"Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white-toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record","authors":"Ángel C. Domínguez-García,&nbsp;Adrián Álvarez-Vena,&nbsp;César Laplana,&nbsp;Paloma Sevilla,&nbsp;Jacinto Román,&nbsp;Josep Francesc Bisbal-Chinesta,&nbsp;Javier Calzada,&nbsp;M. Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena,&nbsp;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}

{"title":"Use of lure sticks for non-invasive genetic sampling of European wildcat populations: lessons learnt and hints for future insights","authors":"Andrea Sforzi,&nbsp;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}