Landscape drivers of mammal habitat use and richness in a protected area and its surrounding agricultural lands

Bellón, Beatriz; Henry, Dominic AW; Renaud, Pierre-Cyril; Roque, Fabio de O; Santos, Cyntia Cavalcante; Melo, Isabel; Arvor, Damien; de Vos, Alta

Title: Landscape drivers of mammal habitat use and richness in a protected area and its surrounding agricultural lands
Creator: Bellón, Beatriz
Creator: Henry, Dominic AW
Creator: Renaud, Pierre-Cyril
Creator: Roque, Fabio de O
Creator: Santos, Cyntia Cavalcante
Creator: Melo, Isabel
Creator: Arvor, Damien
Creator: de Vos, Alta
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2022
Date: 2022
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/415873
Identifier: vital:71296
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107989"
Description: Protected areas (PAs) are key to conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services globally, but their effectiveness increasingly depends on the ability of the surrounding agricultural areas to support biodiversity and secure connectivity at the landscape level. This requires monitoring the broader multi-use landscapes in which PAs exist and identifying the landscape characteristics that support rich, functional wildlife communities. Here, we investigated the species richness and habitat use patterns of a mammal community in relation to different landscape variables and land use and land cover (LULC) types in a PA and its surrounding agricultural lands in the Cerrado. We first used a hierarchical multi-species occupancy model with input camera trap data and eight landscape variables (vegetation productivity, phenology, and heterogeneity, distance to water, roads and settlements, and the PA, slope, and elevation) to estimate the species richness and habitat use of 29 mammal species across the landscape. We then analyzed the relationships between the species richness and habitat use and the landscape variables at the site level, as well as the distribution of species at the landscape level in relation to the different natural and agricultural LULC types.
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (11 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Elsevier
Language: English
Relation: Agriculture, Ecosystems abd Environment
Relation: Bellón, B., Henry, D.A., Renaud, P.C., Roque, F.D.O., Santos, C.C., Melo, I., Arvor, D. and de Vos, A., 2022. Landscape drivers of mammal habitat use and richness in a protected area and its surrounding agricultural lands. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 334, p.107989
Relation: Agriculture, Ecosystems abd Environment volume 334 p. 107989 2022 0167-8809
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