The Role of Urbanness, Vegetation Structure, and Scale in Shaping Puerto Rico's Acoustically Active Mangrove Fauna Communities.

ABSTRACT: The mangroves of Puerto Rico occupy a gradient of urbanization that offers a chance to test hypotheses on urban faunal communities. These hypotheses state that urban avifaunal communities have greater representation by generalists and that certain mangrove specialists can utilize urban landscapes. Much of this is said to be driven by food resources, with frugivores and nectarivores benefiting from abundant residential flowers and fruits, while insectivores are driven away by low food resources. This study used passive acoustic monitoring to identify the audible anuran and avifaunal species in mangroves across an urban gradient of Puerto Rico. Five anurans and thirty-one avian species were detected across all sites, with twenty-three species found at the most species rich site, and eight at

SUBMITTER: Branoff BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11363151 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature