Two decades of climate driving the dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity of a tropical small mammal community in western Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the effects of global climate disruption on biodiversity is important to future conservation efforts. While taxonomic diversity is widely studied, functional diversity of plants, and recently animals, is receiving increasing attention. Most studies of mammals are short-term, focus on temperate habitats, and rely on traits described in the literature rather than generating traits from observations. Unlike previous studies, this long-term field study assessed the factors driving the functional and taxonomic diversity of small-mammal assemblages in dry tropical forests using both traits recorded from literature and a demographic database. We assessed the drivers (abundance and biomass, temperature and rainfall) of taxonomic richness and functional diversity for two rain-driven s

SUBMITTER: Mason-Romo ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5724848 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature