Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Mammals: Adaptations and Seasonal Patterns

摘要: Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs)—with a mean annual temperature greater than 17 degrees Celsius, rainfall ranging from 250 to 2000 millimeters annually and highly seasonal, an ratio of potential evapotranspiration precipitation less 1 (Holdridge 1967)—represent unique combination challenges for the living biota contained within them. The harsh abiotic factors create environment that is hot, with little water, generally has extremely variable but often sparse resource base. It likely both intra- interspecific competition are in severe environments encountered SDTFs. As consequence these biotic factors, many species we think as ‘tropical’ cannot survive forest. Despite biological, cultural, long-standing economic interest forests, habitats mammals inhabiting them remain poorly known.