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Small mammals in fragments of Atlantic Forest: species richness answering to field methods and environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2020

Daniele Pereira Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Cerro Largo, Rua Jacob Reinaldo Haupenthal, 1580, São Pedro, CEP 97900-000, Cerro Largo, RS, Brasil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Erechim, ERS 135 – Km 72, 200, CEP 99700-970, Erechim, RS, Brasil
Fabrício Luiz Skupien
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Cerro Largo, Rua Jacob Reinaldo Haupenthal, 1580, São Pedro, CEP 97900-000, Cerro Largo, RS, Brasil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Caixa Postal 68020, CEP 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Jady de Oliveira Sausen
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Cerro Largo, Rua Jacob Reinaldo Haupenthal, 1580, São Pedro, CEP 97900-000, Cerro Largo, RS, Brasil
Daniela Oliveira de Lima*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Cerro Largo, Rua Jacob Reinaldo Haupenthal, 1580, São Pedro, CEP 97900-000, Cerro Largo, RS, Brasil
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Author for correspondence: *Daniela Oliveira de Lima, Email: daniela.ol.lima@gmail.com

Abstract

Small mammals can be used as environmental indicators and have been intensively studied in fragmented landscapes of Atlantic Forest, with a wide range of field methods. Our aim in this study was two-fold: we tested for the effects of methods and for the effects of the main environmental variables on observed small mammal richness in fragments of Atlantic Forest. We gathered information on small mammal richness, methods and environmental variables from 122 fragments of Atlantic Forest through literature review. These data were analysed using linear models and model selection based on AIC values along with a regression tree analysis. We found that studies will record more species with bigger trapping effort, using pitfall traps and sampling all forest strata. We also confirmed two important ecological assumptions: fragments at lower latitudes and bigger fragments were the ones with higher species richness. Methodological and environmental variables were analysed together on a regression tree, where trapping effort was the most important variable, surpassing any environmental effect. Considering that a significant number of the studies on Atlantic Forest fragments did not use pitfall traps or sample all forest strata, their results on forest fragmentation were affected by sampling bias.

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