Keywords
species survey
species richness
urban ecology
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Accepted 2025-06-26
Published 2025-08-04
Abstract
The main urban settlements in the Colombian Orinoco region are on the Andean foothills; there, forests are threatened ecosystems and we know little about the mammal species that inhabit them. We proposed to answer two questions: what species of mammals are present in a piedmont forest remnant (~3 ha) in a university campus neighboring an area with a continuous urban matrix, and what is the species richness there? We recorded 11 species of native mammals on campus. The comparison of the composition with another campus in the Andean foothills suggests that there is a particular group of mammals that tolerate being near a city, and that the area covered by trees favors species richness. Future studies must investigate the particular characteristics of the urban areas in the Orinoco region that explain the composition and richness of native mammals.
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