Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis.

ABSTRACT: The structure of forest mammal communities appears surprisingly consistent across the continental tropics, presumably due to convergent evolution in similar environments. Whether such consistency extends to mammal occupancy, despite variation in species characteristics and context, remains unclear. Here we ask whether we can predict occupancy patterns and, if so, whether these relationships are consistent across biogeographic regions. Specifically, we assessed how mammal feeding guild, body mass and ecological specialization relate to occupancy in protected forests across the tropics. We used standardized camera-trap data (1002 camera-trap locations and 2-10 years of data) and a hierarchical Bayesian occupancy model. We found that occupancy varied by regions, and certain species characteri

SUBMITTER: Semper-Pascual A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277235 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature