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Bogoni, Juliano A., Carvalho-Rocha, Vítor, Ferraz, Katia M. P. M. B. and Peres, Carlos A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1588-8765
(2021)
Interacting elevational and latitudinal gradients determine bat diversity and distribution across the Neotropics.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 90 (12).
pp. 2729-2743.
ISSN 0021-8790
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Abstract
New World bats are heavily affected by the biophysical setting shaped by elevation and latitude. This study seeks to understand the patterns of bat species diversity across elevational, latitudinal and vegetation height gradients throughout the Neotropics. Systematically gathered putative and empirical data on bat species distribution across the entire Neotropics were examined using descriptive statistics, spatial interpolation of bat taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity, generalized linear models, generalized linear mixed models and phylogenetic generalized least squares. We uncoupled the effects of elevation, latitude and vegetation height to predict Neotropical bat diversity, showing that dietary level, home range and habitat breadth were the most important ecological traits determining coarse-scale bat distributions. Latitude was largely responsible for sorting the regional species pool, whereas elevation appears to apply an additional local filter to this regional pool wherever tropical mountains are present, thereby shaping the structure of montane assemblages. Bats provide multiple ecosystem services and our results can help pinpoint priority areas for bat research and conservation across all Neotropics, elucidate the thresholds of species distributions, and highlight bat diversity hotspots at multiple scales.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: J.A.B. is supported by the FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship grants #2018‐05970‐1 and #2019‐11901‐5. KMPMBF is funded by research grant (#308632/2018‐4) from the CNPq. V.C.‐R. is supported by CAPES. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 British Ecological Society |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | chiroptera,continental scale,diversity patterns,mammals,species distribution,tropical forest,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,animal science and zoology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2021 08:26 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 03:06 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81953 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1365-2656.13594 |
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