Composición y estructura de ensamblaje de pequeños mamíferos no voladores en piedemonte amazónico (Putumayo, Caquetá y Amazonas)

Abstract

The Colombian Amazonia has a great diversity of mammals, since it includes a great plurality of ecosystems, which allow species diversification processes, which are of vital importance for the development of communities, small non-flying mammals play important ecological roles as dispersion of Seeds and food of meso-carnivores and other predators. In order to know the composition and structure of the Amazon piedmont, a sampling was carried out using Sherman traps and pitfall-drop traps in two specific zones by each department. There were 23 individuals belonging to 16 species distributed in 5 families and 3 orders. The most diverse habitat corresponds to Campucana in Putumayo, followed by Leticia Amazonas. For the knowledge of the group a technical file of the small mammals of the Amazon piedmont.