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Trophic niche overlap among Neotropical carnivores in a silvicultural landscape

  • Ana Beatriz de Almeida ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Marcelo Magioli ORCID logo , Carla Gheler-Costa ORCID logo , Luciano Martins Verdade ORCID logo , Thiago Simon Marques ORCID logo , Letícia de Cássia Gilli de Lima and Thomas Püttker ORCID logo
Published/Copyright: March 23, 2023

Abstract

To enable long-term coexistence, species need to differentiate at least one of the three main dimensions of the ecological niche (temporal, spatial, or trophic dimension). Here, we investigated whether mammalian predators (Chrysocyon brachyurus, Cerdocyon thous, Lycalopex vetulus, and Puma concolor) follow the prediction of trophic niche partitioning, which is expected when partitioning of food resources represents an important mechanism for coexistence. We predicted low niche overlap in general and low between P. concolor and the other species. We analyzed 207 fecal samples collected at a landscape composed of forest remnants immersed in Eucalyptus plantations. Food items (animals and plants) were identified using exoskeletons, feathers, scales, teeth, hair, and seeds. We calculated the frequency and percentage of occurrence of food items, niche breadth, and niche overlap between pairs of species. Prey size was similar among all predators, consuming mainly small-sized prey (<1 kg). However, niche breadth was larger for smaller carnivores compared to larger ones. No species pair showed significantly lower niche overlap than expected by chance. Our study provided detailed information on trophic resource use of sympatric carnivores, showing that trophic niche partitioning seems not to be crucial for the coexistence of carnivores in the study area.


Corresponding author: Ana Beatriz de Almeida, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, SP 05508-900, Brazil; and Programa de Pós-Graduação Interunidades em Ecologia Aplicada, Escola Superior de Agricultura, Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil, E-mail:

Funding source: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2017/01304-4 coordinated by Luciano M. Verdade

Funding source: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Award Identifier / Grant number: 88882.430854/2019-01

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Alexandre Percequillo and Prof. Vilma Almeida for helping to identify species of mammals and plants, respectively. We are grateful to Fernanda D. Abra (ViaFAUNA: “http://www.viafauna.com.br/”) who kindly provided the Chrysocyon brachyurus, Lycalopex vetulus, and Puma concolor drawings used in Figure 3.

  1. Author contributions: All authors contributed to the study. Conceptualization: Ana Beatriz de Almeida, Carla Gheler-Costa, Luciano Martins Verdade, Thiago Simon Marques, and Thomas Püttker; Data collection: Ana Beatriz de Almeida, Luciano Martins Verdade, Carla Gheler-Costa and Letícia de Cássia Gilli de Lima. Methodology (analysis): Ana Beatriz de Almeida, Thomas Püttker, and Marcelo Magioli. Writing – original draft preparation: Ana Beatriz de Almeida. Writing – review and editing: Ana Beatriz de Almeida, Carla Gheler-Costa, Luciano Martins Verdade, Thiago Simon Marques, and Thomas Püttker. Funding acquisition: Ana Beatriz de Almeida and Luciano Martins Verdade. Supervision: Thomas Püttker. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

  2. Research funding: We are grateful for financial support from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001 and from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) project nº 2017/01304-4 coordinated by Luciano M. Verdade, for costs of field collections and equipment (microscope and magnifying glass).

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

  4. Research ethics: Ethical approval is not applicable.

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Received: 2022-06-26
Accepted: 2023-03-02
Published Online: 2023-03-23
Published in Print: 2023-07-26

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Ecology
  3. The extirpation of medium and large mammal species from the Ehotilé Islands National Park, south-eastern Côte d’Ivoire
  4. Trophic niche overlap among Neotropical carnivores in a silvicultural landscape
  5. The diet of commensal Crocidura olivieri (Soricomorpha: Soricidae): predation on co-existing invasive Mus musculus suggested by DNA metabarcoding data
  6. Abundance and activity patterns of the endangered margay (Leopardus wiedii) in temperate forest remnants from the avocado landscape in Mexico
  7. Bone growth and body weight patterns in juvenile raccoon dogs in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan
  8. Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and bat flies (Diptera, Streblidae) found in the largest sandstone cave of Brazil
  9. Occurrence and population status of the pond bat (Myotis dasycneme) in Northwest Russia
  10. Conservation
  11. Distribution and conservation status of the endemic Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii)
  12. Enlarging the knowledge on the Ecuadorean rodent Rhagomys septentrionalis (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with remarks on rarity in sigmodontines
  13. New records of the Annamite striped rabbit in Ngoc Linh, Quang Nam and Kon Tum provinces, Vietnam
  14. Ethology
  15. New observations on chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing in Boé, Guinea Bissau
  16. Potential opportunistic behavior of crab-eating fox Cerdocyon thous (Carnivora, Canidae) in Itapuã State Park, RS, Brazil: possible cases of necrophagy
  17. Digging deep: hoary marmots (Marmota caligata) use refuge burrows excavated by grizzly bears (Ursus arctos)
  18. Biogeography
  19. New records of Myotis bakeri (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), and preliminary evidence of a new zoogeographic pattern
  20. Taxonomy/Phylogeny
  21. The first identification of Tula orthohantavirus in forest dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae) from Iran
  22. Two cases of mole shrews (Anourosorex squamipes) with albinism in southwestern China
  23. Corrigendum
  24. Corrigendum to: Annotations on the taxonomy of the opossums (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) of Honduras
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