How forest amount and bioclimatic factors shape small mammal communities in Atlantic Forest fragments?

Abstract

Understanding how the mammalian diversity responds to anthropogenic disturbances on local and landscape scales is an urgent task. The Atlantic Forest biome, with only 12% of its original area remaining, still harbors great diversity of small mammals (Rodentia and Didelphimorphia), a key group…

Publication
Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 35(1) Associazione Teriologica Italiana https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00662-2023