加纳沃尔特地区小型哺乳动物调查及动物地理与保护评论

IF 0.9 3区生物学 Q3 ZOOLOGY

Zoosystema Pub Date : 2021-05-20 DOI:10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14

J. Decher, Ryan W. Norris, M. Abedi‐Lartey, J. Oppong, R. Hutterer, Martin Weinbrenner, Martin Koch, L. Podsiadlowski, C. W. Kilpatrick

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引用次数: 3

摘要

我们研究了西非加纳沃尔塔地区加纳-多哥高地社区和受法律保护的森林遗迹中小型哺乳动物(食虫动物、蝙蝠和啮齿动物)的多样性。与东部的邻国多哥或沃尔塔河以西的加纳相比，这是一个动物学研究不足的地区。我们记录到34种小型哺乳动物:鼩鼱3种(Soricidae Fischer, 1815)，啮齿动物12种，灵长类动物1种(Galagidae Gray, 1825)，蝙蝠17种(Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779)。长尾随机鼠(Tullberg, 1893)似乎是加纳的第一个记录。两种鼩鼱、三种啮齿动物和一种蝙蝠是沃尔特地区的首次记录。通过将1999年和2001年的小型哺乳动物捕获和有限的微生境数据与2000-2015年的森林覆盖变化图进行比较，我们讨论了由于森林覆盖丧失和其他干扰制度导致的物种群落变化趋势。除了有助于我们了解几种小型哺乳动物的分布外，这项研究还证明了沃尔特地区森林栖息地的逐渐丧失。

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A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation

ABSTRACT We examined small mammal (insectivores, bats and rodents) diversity in community and legally protected forest remnants in the Ghana-Togo Highlands of the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa, a zoologically understudied area compared to neighboring Togo to the East, or Ghana west of the Volta River. We recorded 34 small mammal species: three species of shrews (Soricidae Fischer, 1815), 12 species of rodents, one primate (Galagidae Gray, 1825) and 17 species of bats (Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779). The rodent Stochomys longicaudatus (Tullberg, 1893) appears to be a first record for Ghana. Two shrew, three rodent and one bat species were first records for the Volta Region. By comparing our small mammal captures and limited microhabitat data from 1999 and 2001 to forest cover change maps for the period 2000-2015 we discuss trends in species community changes due to forest cover loss and other disturbance regimes. Aside from contributing to our understanding of the distribution of several small mammal species, the study demonstrates the progressive loss of forest habitat in the Volta Region.

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Zoosystema 生物-动物学

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2.00

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10.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Zoosystema is a fast-track and peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the inventory, analysis and interpretation of animal biodiversity. It publishes, in French or English, original results of zoological research, particularly in systematics and related fields: comparative, functional and evolutionary morphology, phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy and nomenclature, etc. All articles published in Zoosystema are compliant with the different nomenclatural codes. A copyright assignment will be signed by the authors before publication.