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Abstract:
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We studied lizard assemblages assessing abundance,
richness, and nestedness in a fragmented landscape
of central Chile including native temperate forest, forest
fragments, and commercial pine plantations. Fragmentation
and plantations increase the availability of edge
habitats triggering both the support of additional lizard
species, absent at the continuous forest, and the nestedness
of lizard assemblages, where interior habitats of forest and
plantations are nested subsets of habitat edges. A
vulnerable lizard (Liolaemus tenuis) thrives at fragments
in abundance similar to the continuous forest. Therefore,
remnants ought to be considered in the conservation of
lizard assemblages. |