A landscape-scale assessment of tropical mammals reveals the effects of habitat and anthropogenic disturbance on community occupancy.

ABSTRACT: With biodiversity facing unparalleled threats from anthropogenic disturbance, knowledge on the occurrences of species and communities provides for an effective and fast approach to assess their status and vulnerability. Disturbance is most prominent at the landscape-level, for example through habitat loss from large-scale resource extraction or agriculture. However, addressing species responses to habitat changes at the landscape-scale can be difficult and cost-ineffective, hence studies are mostly conducted at single areas or habitat patches. Moreover, there is a relative lack of studies on communities, as opposed to focal species, despite the former may carry more comprehensive information. Here, we used a multi-region, multi-species hierarchical occupancy model to study a meta-community

SUBMITTER: Cavada N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6474625 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature