Non-volant mammals of the Serra da Fortaleza Wildlife Refuge, southern Goiás, central Brazil

By

Hannibal, Wellington
Parreira Claro, Hermes Willyan
Bernardes-Dias, Ana Claudia
Alves, Carolina
Bernardes, Patricia Rezende
Silva, Thaynara Lorrane Linhares Da

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-11-20

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

19

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

883--900

Subjects

Biodiversity , camera trap , Conservation , protected area , sampling methods

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/19.6.883

 

Abstract

Protected areas are essential for the maintenance of biodiversity, but we know little about local biodiversity in these areas. In this study, we describe the composition and structure of the non-volant mammal community in the Serra da Fortaleza Wildlife Refuge in southern Goiás state, central Brazil. We distributed 20 hexagons (~57 ha each), 10 in the protected area and 10 in its surroundings. We collected data on composition, richness, and abundance of non-volant mammals using live and pitfall traps, camera traps, and active searching. We recorded 39 species (five threatened) of non-volant mammals. The use of diverse sampling methods allowed for a com-prehensive depiction of mammal diversity and composition, lead to the discovery of new species records for the region, including Marmosa limae Thomas, 1920, Cerradomys scotti (Langguth & Bonvicino, 2002), Hylaeamys megacephalus (G. Fischer, 1814), and Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795). We emphasize the importance of protected areas for the conservation of the mammal fauna in the highly fragmented landscape of central Brazil.