using mainly animalsas models
I'm just highlighting this because it is generally an important bias to consider. My impression is that it is common for people to gravitate towards animals, and among animals, to gravitate towards charismatic megafauna.
Species’ geographic distribution data were valid for hypothesisgeneration
I'm not entirely sure what this means. Is this about having consistent methods across species?
one in fourknown terrestrial species in the world lives in the Amazonian rain‐forests (
That's more than I expected it to be! I'm curious about how they quantified this and what kingdoms this is including (not that I doubt this).
2011 and 2017,
This seems like a bit of a large gap between sampling, this seems smart as it allows more time for change to occur between sampling periods. I am curious as to if they collected any environmental data on these sites in between sampling periods to better understand what was driving the change.
disturbance-adapted native species can become ubiquitous and manynative species can become extinct
This is making me think about what wildlife tends to do better in urban environments in NC. This process will probably favor generalists.
declined by 90%
That is a big decline, I'm wondering what broader impacts of this change in density on the community might cause.
fire data
I'm a bit confused by what the measures for regional fire extent mean, I'm not entirely sure what specifically is being measured here or what it means for that to be negative.
studied exten-sively in semi-arid regions of Chile (e.g., Lima et al.,2002; Mu ́ rua et al., 2003). However, there are no otherstudies of the effect of ENSO on small-mammal popula-tions in other South American ecosystems.
I'm curious about why this interaction has only been studied in semi-arid regions.