Afromontane mosaic vegetation acts as a barrier between small mammals from two savannah biomes in northern Ethiopia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/24:00136413

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-024-02811-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-024-02811-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02811-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10531-024-02811-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Afromontane mosaic vegetation acts as a barrier between small mammals from two savannah biomes in northern Ethiopia

Original language description

Despite its biogeographical uniqueness, where two vast savanna regions are separated by the Afromontane mosaic vegetation, there is a significant lack of small mammal sampling in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Leveraging all our available data on rodents and shrews in the region, we tested the hypothesis that the Afromontane mosaic vegetation in the highlands acts as a barrier to gene flow between taxa found in the Somali-Masai and Sudanian savanna in the southeast and western lowland parts of the region, respectively. Morphological and DNA sequence analysis confirmed the presence of 23 species of small rodents and shrews in the region. We recorded 18 of these species in the Afromontane mosaic vegetation, seven species in the Sudanian savanna, and four species in the Somali-Masai savanna. Notably, the fauna of the Sudanian savanna was strikingly different from that of the Somali-Masai savanna at both intraspecific and interspecific levels, suggesting the northern Ethiopian highlands as a very strong biogeographic barrier for taxa adapted to arid lowlands. However, the reported species diversity remains provisional, and additional sampling from unexplored areas is needed. Furthermore, some of the reported taxa, in this study, such as Mus cf. tenellus, Crocidura cf. fuscomurina, Dendromus sp. indet. 2, and Otomys cf. cheesmani, require detailed taxonomic investigation and may represent new species. A robust understanding of the taxonomic diversity and distribution of the small mammals in the region is crucial for effective conservation planning as well as for addressing practical questions related to rodents, such as in public health and pest management.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-06116S" target="_blank" >GA23-06116S: Phyloregions of sub-Saharan Africa: Small mammals as a suitable model group for unbiased quantification of evolutionary diversity and uniqueness</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biodiversity and Conservation

ISSN

0960-3115

e-ISSN

1572-9710

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

1459-1478

UT code for WoS article

001176163900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85186892363