Article
Metacommunity analysis of Mexican bats: environmentally mediated structure in an area of high geographic and environmental complexity
Fecha
2011Autor
López González, Celia
J. Presley, Steven
Lozano, Abraham
D. Stevens, Richard
L. Higgins, Christopher
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Resumen
Aim We tested the hypothesis that distributions of Mexican bats are defined by
shared responses to environmental gradients for the entire Mexican bat
metacommunity and for each of four metaensembles (frugivores, nectarivores,
gleaning insectivores, and aerial insectivores). Further, we identified the main
environmental factors to which bats respond for multiple spatial extents.