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Making it in the city: Public data reveal patterns and drivers of terrestrial mammal occurrence across urban Philippines

2026-08-27

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Cityscapes influence mammal communities; however, their effects are not well understood in tropical archipelagos such as the Philippines, which have high levels of endemism. We analysed 42,688 occurrence records from GBIF and the literature to identify patterns and predictors of terrestrial mammal presence in Philippine cities, while accounting for sampling and knowledge biases. Out of...

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Literature Corpus work: 05cc7578-9a04-57eb-a050-2136b6a24eb1
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9367707/v2

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