Check List 12(3): e19518, doi: 10.15560/12.3.1916
Mammals of four Caatinga areas in northeastern Brazil: inventory, species biology, and community structure
Ana Cláudia Delciellos‡‡ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corresponding author: Ana Cláudia Delciellos ( delciellos@biologia.ufrj.br ) © 2017 Ana Cláudia Delciellos. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Delciellos A (2016) Mammals of four Caatinga areas in northeastern Brazil: inventory, species biology, and community structure. Check List 12(3): 1916. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.3.1916 |  |
Abstract
Studies on population dynamics and community structure for mammals from the semi-arid Caatinga biome are very scarce. I surveyed non-volant mammals in four sites in the Caatinga of Northeastern Brazil. Herein, 24 species belonging to eight orders are recorded. A total of 165 individuals of five species of small mammals were captured in a 4-year capture-recapture study. Capture success and relative richness were low and not correlated with precipitation and temperature. The present study contributes to the knowledge of species biology and ecology in sites geographically close to priority areas for conservation in this biome.
Keywords
camera trap; capture-recapture method; inventory; Mammalia; semi-arid