Tropical forest mammal occupancy and functional diversity increase with microhabitat surface area.
Microsoft HoloLens
camera traps
functional diversity
functional traits
occupancy modeling
surface area
Journal
Ecology
ISSN: 1939-9170
Titre abrégé: Ecology
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0043541
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
revised:
23
06
2023
received:
12
10
2022
accepted:
07
09
2023
medline:
4
12
2023
pubmed:
3
10
2023
entrez:
3
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Many animal-environment interactions are mediated by the physical forms of the environment, especially in tropical forests, where habitats are structurally complex and highly diverse. Higher structural complexity, measured as habitat surface area, may provide increased resource availability for animals, leading to higher animal diversity. Greater habitat surface area supports increased animal diversity in other systems, such as coral reefs and forest canopies, but it is uncertain how this relationship translates to communities of highly mobile, terrestrial mammal species inhabiting forest floors. We tested the relative importance of forest floor habitat structure, encompassing vegetation and topographic structure, in determining species occupancy and functional diversity of medium to large mammals using data from a tropical forest in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. We related species occupancies and diversity obtained from a multispecies occupancy model with ground-level habitat structure measurements obtained from a novel head-mounted active remote sensing device, the Microsoft HoloLens. We found that habitat surface area was a significant predictor of mean species occupancy and had a significant positive relationship with functional dispersion. The positive relationships indicate that surface area of tropical forest floors may play an important role in promoting mammal occupancy and functional diversity at the microhabitat scale. In particular, habitat surface area had higher mean effects on occupancy for carnivorous and social species. These results support a habitat surface area-diversity relationship on tropical forest floors for mammals.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e4181Subventions
Organisme : Aage V. Jensen Foundation
Organisme : American Philosophical Society
Organisme : Conservation International
Organisme : Diane McSherry and Patrick Poe
Organisme : Fondazione Foresta Futura
Organisme : MUSE- Museo delle Scienze
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : NSF 2213568
Organisme : Northrop Grumman
Organisme : Sigma Xi
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America.
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