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Gonçalves‐Sousa JG, Cavalcante LA, Mesquita DO, Ávila RW. Determinants of resource use in lizard assemblages from the semiarid Caatinga, Brazil. Biotropica 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- José Guilherme Gonçalves‐Sousa
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Universidade Federal do Ceará Fortaleza Brazil
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- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Recursos Naturais, Departamento de Química Biológica Universidade Regional do Cariri Crato Brazil
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- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza Universidade Federal da Paraíba João Pessoa Brazil
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- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Universidade Federal do Ceará Fortaleza Brazil
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Rugiero L, Capula M, Dendi D, Petrozzi F, Fa JE, Funk SM, Burke RL, Luiselli L. Testing hypotheses of habitat use and temporal activity in relation to body plan in a Mediterranean lizard community. CAN J ZOOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2021-0083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
A body plan (bauplan) is a suite of morphological characters shared by phylogenetically related animals at some point during their development. Despite its value, the bauplan concept is still rarely employed to characterize functional groups in community ecology. Here, we examine habitat use and spatio-temporal activity correlates of an entire seven-species community of lizards with different bauplans. The study was carried out in three locations in central Italy, encompassing a complex landscape with a patchy mosaic of a wide variety of habitats and microclimates. We tested four hypotheses regarding niche breadth, habitat use, and activity patterns. The first hypothesis, niche complementarity, in which species with similar body shapes should non-randomly partition available habitats, was not supported. By contrast, the hypotheses that larger bodied species should have a wider niche breadth, that slower species should inhabit habitat types of higher cover, and species inhabiting open sunny habitats should exhibit more seasonally variable activity patterns, were all supported by the data. Sympatric lizard communities in our study area were clearly organized by autecological constraints and eco-physiological attributes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lorenzo Rugiero
- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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- Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), CIFOR Headquarters, Bogor, 16115, Indonesia
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- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, I-00144 Rome, Italy
- Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B. 5080, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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