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Peninsular effect on species richness in Italian small mammals and bats

  • Corrado Battisti EMAIL logo , Silvio Marta , Paolo Agnelli , Luca Luiselli , Fabio Stoch und Giovanni Amori
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 7. Dezember 2020
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Abstract

Peninsular effect is an anomalous gradient in plant and animal species richness from base to tip of a given peninsula. This pattern has been studied intensely on various taxonomic groups, but with scarce attention for using standardized data. Here, using presence-absence data normalized by the field effort, the peninsular effect on the species richness of some mammalian groups (Eulipotyphla [i.e. Soricomorpha + Erinaceomorpha], Rodentia, and Chiroptera) was analyzed along the Italian peninsula. Specifically, species richness at each 30′-wide latitudinal band and the normalized species richness were compared, and generalized linear models (GLM) were used to assess whether habitat diversity, altitudinal range and area of each latitudinal band were the main predictors in explaining the peninsular effects in each of the three mammalian orders. In both Rodentia and Chiroptera, species richness was better predicted by habitat heterogeneity and by the interaction term habitat heterogeneity × field effort. For Eulipotyphla, GLM models gave no significant results. Our study highlighted the importance of taking into account the sampling effort in order to proper evaluate the peninsular effects on species richness in animals.

Keywords: altitudinal range; Chiroptera; Eulipotyphla; habitat heterogeneity; latitude; research effort; Rodentia
Corresponding author: Corrado Battisti, “Torre Flavia” Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Station, Città Metropolitana di Roma, Parks Service, Via Ribotta, 41, 00144, Rome, Italy, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

Two anonymous reviewers and the Associate Editors (Boris Kryštufek) provided a large number of comments and suggestions that improved the first and the second draft of the manuscript.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

Appendix

Total area for each latitudinal band (LB, in m2), as well as the minimum and maximum elevation (in m a.s.l.) in each 30′-wide LB of the Italian peninsula, and the altitudinal range in each LB (LBrangealt).

LBAreaelev.minelev.maxLBrangealt
35.5199405198350021−2128130
365284446700914461145144
36.5214544566783528−7526533
37507359194174105−2985987
37.510631130966973−232773279
38113514169410599−333063309
38.5325773614608345−414191423
39634752955317833−918731882
39.5103434547338675−619531959
40128475206522096−522382243
40.5214105490424334−918841893
41185180701483454−817921800
41.5160958073570735−721912198
42150360800571877−627622768
42.5137509959904909−828072815
4314965936191886−424382442
43.5143399148029511−716611668
44149608885959833−632293235
44.5234175547459388−937183727
45242887892055649−2434043428
45.5258746294370292−2039383958
46226752553033012−2247714793
46.513867340395677917138513680
4727720627081159452035903070

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Received: 2019-10-10
Accepted: 2020-11-13
Published Online: 2020-12-07
Published in Print: 2021-05-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2019-0122
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
altitudinal range; Chiroptera; Eulipotyphla; habitat heterogeneity; latitude; research effort; Rodentia

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Conservation
  3. First wolves in Luxembourg since 1893, originating from the Alpine and Central European populations
  4. Ecology
  5. Spatial ecology of lions in a small, semi-fenced park surrounded by dense human populations: the case study of Nairobi National Park, Kenya
  6. Activity patterns of jaguar and puma and their main prey in the Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape (Bolivia, Peru)
  7. The status and ecology of the sand cat in the Uruq Bani Ma’arid Protected Area, Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia
  8. The spatio-temporal co-occurrence of free-ranging common fallow deer and domestic caprines on the island of Rhodes, Greece
  9. Seasonal consumption of insects by the crested porcupine in Central Italy
  10. Season and habitat affect diversity, abundance and reproductive state of small mammals near Lake Abaya, Ethiopia
  11. Biogeography
  12. Peninsular effect on species richness in Italian small mammals and bats
  13. Small rodent communities (Muridae) in Gabonese savannas: species diversity and biogeographical affinities
  14. Ethology
  15. Inter-individual behavioural variation in the crested porcupine
  16. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  17. A new species of Cynomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the northwestern slope of the Andes
  18. Overlooked diversity in Argentine caviomorph rodents: the need to increase field efforts
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