Environmental drivers of tropical forest snake phenology: Insights from citizen science.

ABSTRACT: Museum specimens and citizen science initiatives are valuable sources of information on how anthropogenic activities affect biodiversity and how species respond to rapid global change. Although tropical regions harbor most of the planet's biodiversity, investigations on species' phenological changes are heavily biased toward temperate regions. Such unevenness in phenological research is also taxonomically biased, with reptiles being the least studied group among tetrapod species regarding animal phenology. Herein, we used long-term time-series data to investigate environmentally driven changes in the activity pattern of tropical forest snakes. We gathered natural history collection and citizen science data for 25 snake species (five venomous and 20 non-venomous) from an Atlantic Forest reg

SUBMITTER: Jesus LMG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363785 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature