Drivers of Anuran Assemblage Structure in a Subtropical Montane Region
Kauan Bassetto, Vítor Carvalho‐Rocha, Carlos A Peres, Selvino Neckel‐Oliveira · 2024
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Description
Kauan Bassetto and co-authors climb a Brazilian mountain forest to learn what sorts frogs where, in this 2024 study. Mountain slopes compress climate zones into short distances, making them natural experiments for how environment shapes life. The team sampled twenty half-hectare plots along a steep elevation gradient in the southern Atlantic Forest during 2020 and 2021. Frog species counts and numbers fell as elevation rose.
Warmth, more than plant productivity, tracked the frogs' richness and abundance. That finding spotlights temperature as the master variable on this slope. As climate warms, montane frog communities should shuffle upslope in predictable ways, and studies with firm baselines like this one will be how anyone can tell.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kauan Bassetto, Vítor Carvalho‐Rocha, Carlos A Peres, Selvino Neckel‐Oliveira |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |