The critical importance of Old World fruit bats for healthy ecosystems and economies

SA Aziz, KR McConkey, K Tanalgo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite extensive documentation of the ecological and economic importance of Old World
fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) and the many threats they face from humans, negative …

How dryland mammals will respond to climate change: the effects of body size, heat load and a lack of food and water

A Fuller, D Mitchell, SK Maloney… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Mammals in drylands are facing not only increasing heat loads but also reduced water and
food availability as a result of climate change. Insufficient water results in suppression of …

Extent, intensity and drivers of mammal defaunation: a continental-scale analysis across the Neotropics

JA Bogoni, CA Peres, KM Ferraz - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Neotropical mammal diversity is currently threatened by several chronic human-induced
pressures. We compiled 1,029 contemporary mammal assemblages surveyed across the …

Multispecies detection and identification of African mammals in aerial imagery using convolutional neural networks

A Delplanque, S Foucher, P Lejeune… - Remote Sensing in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Survey and monitoring of wildlife populations are among the key elements in nature
conservation. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles and light aircrafts as aerial image …

Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate

KM Ferraro, L Welker, EB Ward… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animals interact with and impact ecosystem biogeochemical cycling—processes known as
zoogeochemistry. While the deposition of various animal materials (eg carcasses and …

Effects of mammal defaunation on natural ecosystem services and human well being throughout the entire Neotropical realm

JA Bogoni, CA Peres, KM Ferraz - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Mammals embody the apex of ecosystems processes, and their majestic diversity is
overwhelmingly threatened in the Neotropical realm. Mammal population declines erode not …

Global and regional erosion of mammalian functional diversity across the diel cycle

DTC Cox, AS Gardner, KJ Gaston - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Biodiversity is declining worldwide. When species are physically active (ie, their diel niche)
may influence their risk of becoming functionally extinct. It may also affect how species …

How future climate change and deforestation can drastically affect the species of monkeys endemic to the eastern Amazon, and priorities for conservation

LB da Silva, GL Oliveira, RG Frederico… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
The intensive deforestation, together with the projections of climate change, indicates severe
effects of human actions on biodiversity in the Amazon, especially on species that depend …

Co‐declining mammal–dung beetle faunas throughout the Atlantic Forest biome of South America

JA Bogoni, PG da Silva, CA Peres - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The millennial–scale evolutionary relationships between mammals and dung beetles have
been eroded due to several drivers of contemporary biodiversity loss. Although some …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem services delivered by Brazilian mammals: spatial and taxonomic patterns and comprehensive list of species

MM Vale, MV Vieira, CEV Grelle, S Manes… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2023 - Elsevier
For the 701 mammals that occur in Brazil (ca. 13% of extant mammals worldwide), we
attributed ES to each deliverer one based on their functional traits, known trophic …