<scp>ATLANTIC</scp>‐<scp>CAMTRAPS</scp>: a dataset of medium and large terrestrial mammal communities in the Atlantic Forest of South America

Lima, Fernando; Beca, Gabrielle; Muylaert, Renata L.; Jenkins, Clinton N.; Perilli, Miriam Lúcia Lages; Paschoal, Ana Maria O.; Massara, Rodrigo Lima; Paglia, Adriano Pereira; Chiarello, Adriano Garcia; Graipel, Maurício Eduardo; Cherem, Jorge José; Regolin, André Luis; Oliveira‐Santos, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues; Brocardo, Carlos Rodrigo; Paviolo, Agustin Javier; Bitetti, Mario S. Di; Scoss, Leandro Moraes; Rocha, Fabiana Lopes; Fusco‐Costa, Roberto; Rosa, Clarissa Alves da; Silva, Marina X. da; Hufnagell, Ludmila; Santos, Paloma Marques; Duarte, Gabriela Teixeira; Guimarães, Luiza Neves; Bailey, Larissa L.; Rodrigues, Flávio Henrique Guimarães; Cunha, Heitor M.; Fantacini, Felipe Moreli; Batista, Graziele Oliveira; Bogoni, Juliano André; Tortato, Marco A.; Luiz, Micheli Ribeiro; Peroni, Nivaldo; Castilho, Pedro Volkmer de; Maccarini, Thiago Bernardes; Filho, Vilmar Picinatto; Angelo, Carlos De; Cruz, Paula; Quiroga, Verónica; Iezzi, María Eugenia; Cavalcanti, Sandra M. C.; Martensen, Alexandre Camargo; Maggiorini, Erica Vanessa; Ferreira, Fabíola Keesen; Nunes, André Valle; Lessa, Gisele; Cordeiro‐Estrela, Pedro; Beltrão, Mayara Guimarães; Albuquerque, Anna Carolina Figueiredo de; Ingberman, Bianca; Cassano, Camila Righetto; Cullen, Laury; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar; Galetti, Mauro

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“…Altogether, we compiled data on 1,831 species occurring in 1,953 sampling sites, totalling nearly 59,000 species occurrence records (Figure ). The data were collected between years 1990 and 2017, during which the geographical coordinates are of required accuracy (Bovendorp et al, ; Culot et al, ; Hasui et al, ; Lima et al, ; de Lima et al, ; Muylaert et al, ). A list of the filtered tree data sources is found in Appendix , Table .…”

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Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions

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Aim: Forest fragmentation is among the principal causes of global biodiversity loss, yet how it affects mutualistic interactions between plants and animals at large spatial scale is poorly understood. In particular, tropical forest regeneration depends on animal-mediated seed dispersal, but the seed-dispersing animals face rapid decline due to forest fragmentation and defaunation. Here, we assess how fragmentation influences the pairwise interactions between 407 seed disperser and 1,424 tree species in a highly fragmented biodiversity hotspot.Location: Atlantic Forest, South America. Methods:We predicted interaction networks in 912 sites covering the entire biome by combining verified interaction data with co-occurrence probabilities obtained from a spatially explicit joint species distribution model. We identified keystone seed dispersers by computing a species-specific keystone index and by selecting those species belonging to the top 5% quantile. Results:We show that forest fragmentation affects seed dispersal interactions negatively, and the decreased area of functionally connected forest, rather than increased edge effects, is the main driver behind the loss of interactions. Both the seed disperser availability for the local tree communities and in particular the proportion of interactions provided by keystone seed dispersers decline with increasing degree of fragmentation. Importantly, just 21 keystone species provided >40% of all interactions. The numbers of interactions provided by keystone and non-keystone species, however, were equally negatively affected by fragmentation, suggesting that seed dispersal interactions may not be rewired under strong fragmentation effects. Conclusions:We highlight the importance of understanding the fragmentation-induced compositional shifts in seed disperser communities as they may lead to lagged | 155 MARJAKANGAS et Al.

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Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions

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“…In doing so, we initially used data of mammal assemblages throughout the entire Atlantic Forest, spanning parts of Brazil and Argentina, contained in Canale et al (2012), Bogoni et al (2017) and Lima et al (2017). adult body mass ≥ 1 kg) studies across the entire Atlantic Forest biome using search engines.…”

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

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The millennial-scale evolutionary relationships between mammals and dung beetles have been eroded due to several drivers of contemporary biodiversity loss. Although some evidence of co-decline has been shown for mammals and dung beetles at some Neotropical sites, a biome-scale analysis for the entire Atlantic Forest of South America would strengthen our understanding of how relictual sets of mammal species can affect dung beetle co-occurrences and co-declines. We therefore collated hundreds of assemblages of both dung beetles and medium-to large-bodied mammals throughout the world's longest tropical forest latitudinal gradient to examine to what extent mammal assemblages may exert a positive influence on dung beetle species composition and functional assembly, and whether this relationship is scale dependent. We also collated several climatic and other environmental variables to examine the degree to which they shape mammal-dung beetle relationships. The relationships between local mammal and dung beetle faunas were examined using regression models, variation partitioning, dissimilarity indices and ecological networks. We found a clear positive relationship between mammal and dung beetle species richness across this forest biome, indicating an ongoing process of mammal-dung beetle niche-mediated co-decline. We found a strong relationship between the species composition of both taxa, in which dung beetle species dissimilarity apparently track changes in mammalian dissimilarity, typically in 80% of all cases. Co-variables such as phytomass and climatic variables also influenced mammal-dung beetle patterns of co-decline along the Atlantic Forest. We conclude that dung beetle diversity and community assembly are shaped by the remaining co-occurring mammal assemblages and their functional traits, and both groups were governed by environmental features. We emphasize that ecosystem-wide effects of mammal population declines remain poorly understood both quantitatively and qualitatively, and curbing large vertebrate defaunation will ensure the persistence of co-dependent species.

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“…We also searched for papers not indexed by 'Web of Science' and from gray literature, such as dissertations, reports and monographs. We included studies with lists of medium and large mammals, irrespective of survey methods used (Lima et al 2017). A complete list of studies can be found in Supplementary material Appendix 1.…”

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Defaunation and fragmentation erode small mammal diversity dimensions in tropical forests

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Forest fragmentation and defaunation are considered the main drivers of biodiversity loss, yet the synergistic effects of landscape changes and biotic interactions on assemblage structure have been poorly investigated. Here, we use an extensive dataset of 283 assemblages and 105 species of small mammals to understand how defaunation of medium and large mammals and forest fragmentation change the community composition and diversity of rodents and marsupials in tropical forests of South America. We used structured equation models to investigate the relationship between small mammal species, functional and phylogenetic diversity with forest size, forest cover and the occurrence of medium and large mammals. The best‐fit model showed that defaunation reduced functional diversity, and that species diversity of small mammals increased with forest patch size. Forest cover did not affect functional and phylogenetic diversity. Our results indicate that occurrence of medium and large sized mammals (probably acting as predators, or competitors of small mammals) and forest patch size help to retain species and functional diversity in small mammal communities. Further, the number of species in a small mammal community was critical to the maintenance of phylogenetic diversity, and may have a pronounced influence on the ecological functions played by small mammals. Identifying how phylogenetic and functional diversity change in function of human pressures allows us to better understand the contribution of extant lineages to ecosystem functioning in tropical forests.

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ATLANTIC‐CAMTRAPS: a dataset of medium and large terrestrial mammal communities in the Atlantic Forest of South America

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Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions

Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions

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

Defaunation and fragmentation erode small mammal diversity dimensions in tropical forests

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