Mammal Species Commonly Present at Luquillo LTER

Patterns of biodiversity, such as the increase toward the tropics and the peaked curve during ecological succession, are fundamental phenomena for ecology. Such patterns have multiple, interacting causes, but temperature emerges as a dominant factor across organisms from microbes to trees and mammals, and across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments. However, there is little consensus on the underlying mechanisms, even as global temperatures increase and the need to predict their effects becomes more pressing. The purpose of this project is to generate and test theory for how temperature impacts biodiversity through its effect on biochemical processes and metabolic rate. A combination of standardized surveys in the field and controlled experiments in the field and laboratory measure diversity of three taxa -- trees, invertebrates, and microbes -- and key biogeochemical processes of decomposition in seven forests distributed along a geographic gradient of increasing temperature from cold temperate to warm tropical. This list of mammal species at Luquillo LTER, Puerto Rico, was derived from the text of "The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest," edited by Douglas P. Reagan and Robert B. Waide, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, (c) 1996, Chapter 12, "Mammals," by Michael R. Willig and Michael R. Gannon, pp. 399-431, as part of a macrosystems biodiversity and latitude project supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement DEB#1065836.生物多样性分布格局——如向热带地区递增的梯度规律，以及生态演替过程中的单峰曲线格局——是生态学的核心基础现象。此类格局的成因兼具多样性与关联性，而温度则是横跨微生物、树木、哺乳动物等各类生物，以及陆地、海洋、淡水等各类生境的主导驱动因子。然而，尽管全球气温持续上升，预测其生态影响的需求日益迫切，学界对其背后的作用机制仍未形成广泛共识。本项目旨在构建并验证相关理论，阐明温度通过影响生化过程与代谢速率，进而对生物多样性产生调控作用的机制。本研究结合野外标准化调查与野外、实验室受控实验，对沿温度梯度（从寒温带向暖热带）分布的7处森林开展观测，测定3个类群（树木、无脊椎动物与微生物）的物种多样性，以及分解过程这一关键生物地球化学过程。本研究所用的波多黎各卢奎卢科长期生态研究站点（Luquillo LTER）哺乳动物物种名录，源自"The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest"一书：该书由Douglas P. Reagan与Robert B. Waide主编，芝加哥大学出版社（University of Chicago Press）1996年出版，其中第12章"Mammals"（《哺乳动物》）由Michael R. Willig与Michael R. Gannon执笔，页码范围为399-431。该名录属于由美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）通过合作协议DEB#1065836资助的大尺度生物多样性与纬度梯度项目的组成部分。