Species richness and assemblages of bats along a forest elevational transect in Papua New Guinea
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906440
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13161" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13161</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.13161" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.13161</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Species richness and assemblages of bats along a forest elevational transect in Papua New Guinea
Original language description
Over the past decades, elevational gradients have become a powerful tool with which to understand the underlying cause(s) of biodiversity. The Mt. Wilhelm elevational transect is one such example, having been used to study the birds, insects, and plants of Papua New Guinea (PNG). However, a survey of mammals from this forest elevational transect was lacking. We thus aimed to investigate patterns in the community structure and species richness of bats (Chiroptera) along the transect, link the species to available regional data, and explain the observed patterns by including environmental characteristics. Bat assemblages were surveyed between 200 m and a timberline at 3700 m a.s.l. at eight study sites separated by 500 m in elevation. We conducted mist-netting and acoustic surveys to detect and identify species at each site. Regional data were compiled to compare local with regional diversity. Finally, biotic (i.e., food availability, habitat features) and abiotic (i.e., mean daily temperature) factors were included in our analyses to disentangle the ecological drivers underlying bat diversity. Results revealed that species richness decreases with ascending elevation and was best explained by a corresponding decrease in temperature. We observed both turnover and nestedness of the species composition at regional scale whereas turnover was dominant at local scale. Extensions and shifts of bat elevational ranges were also found in Mt. Wilhelm. Consequently, despite that the study was restricted to one mountain in PNG, it demonstrates how basic inventory surveys can be used to address ecological questions in other similar and undisturbed tropical mountains.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biotropica
ISSN
0006-3606
e-ISSN
1744-7429
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
81-94
UT code for WoS article
000862950200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85139049651