Data from: A standardized assessment of forest mammal communities reveals consistent functional composition and vulnerability across the tropics
Francesco Rovero, Jorge Ahumada, Patrick Jansen, Douglas Sheil, Patricia Alvarez, Kelly Boekee, Santiago Espinosa, Marcela Lima, Emanuel Martin, Timothy O’Brien, Julia Salvador, Fernanda Santos, Melissa Rosa, Alexander Zvoleff, Chris Sutherland & Simone Tenan
Understanding global diversity patterns has benefitted from a focus on functional traits and how they relate to variation in environmental conditions among assemblages. Distant communities in similar environments often share characteristics, and for tropical forest mammals, this functional trait convergence has been demonstrated at coarse scales (110-200 km resolution), but less is known about how these patterns manifest at fine scales, where local processes (e.g., habitat features and anthropogenic activities) and biotic interactions occur. Here,...
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Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí1
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University of Massachusetts Amherst1
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Field Museum of Natural History1
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Museo delle Scienze1
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Conservation International1
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador1
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute1
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Federal University of Western Pará1
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences1
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University of Florence1