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  • Ecology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Biodiversity Research

Background:

  • Deforestation leads to habitat fragmentation, reducing biodiversity.
  • Processes driving species loss in fragmented habitats are not fully understood.
  • Tropical insectivorous bat communities are vulnerable to habitat changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify community processes driving tropical insectivorous bat community disassembly due to forest fragmentation in Malaysia.
  • To assess the impact of fragmentation on species richness and functional diversity.
  • To differentiate between deterministic and stochastic processes in fragmented ecosystems.

Main Methods:

  • Measured species richness and functional diversity (using eight traits) in continuous forests and forest fragments of varying sizes.
  • Analyzed trait-based functional diversity against null expectations.
  • Compared community assembly processes in continuous versus fragmented habitats.

Main Results:

  • Species loss in fragmented forests was non-random, forming nested subsets.
  • Functional trait space collapsed significantly as species richness decreased.
  • Continuous forests showed structure from environmental filtering and niche packing; fragments were structured by stochastic processes.

Conclusions:

  • Forest fragmentation drives bat community disassembly through a mix of deterministic and stochastic processes.
  • Functional diversity is crucial for understanding biodiversity loss and for conservation planning.
  • Conservation strategies should integrate functional traits alongside fragment size and species counts for effective landscape-level planning.