Assessing assemblage-wide mammal responses to different types of habitat modification in Amazonian forests.

ABSTRACT: Tropical forests are being heavily modified by varying intensities of land use ranging from structural degradation to complete conversion. While ecological responses of vertebrate assemblages to habitat modification are variable, such understanding is critical to appropriate conservation planning of anthropogenic landscapes. We assessed the responses of medium/large-bodied mammal assemblages to the ecological impacts of reduced impact logging, secondary regrowth, and eucalyptus and oil palm plantations in Eastern Brazilian Amazonia. We used within-landscape paired baseline-treatment comparisons to examine the impact of different types of habitat modification in relation to adjacent primary forest. We examined assemblage-wide metrics including the total number of species, number of primary

SUBMITTER: Almeida-Maues PCR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8810785 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature