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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Pantanal.
Data corrente: | 18/02/2014
Data da última atualização: | 11/02/2015
Autoria: | BIANCHI, R. de C.; CAMPOS, R. C.; XAVIER FILHO, N. L.; OLIFIERS, N.; GOMPPER, M. E.; MOURAO, G. de M.
Afiliação: | RITA DE CASSIA BIANCHI, UNESP; RENATA CALIXTO CAMPOS, UFSC; NILSON LINO XAVIER FILHO, UFMS; NATALIE OLIFIERS, FIOCRUZ; MATTHEW E. GOMPPER, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI; GUILHERME DE MIRANDA MOURAO, CPAP.
Título: | Intraspecific, interspecific, and seasonal differences in the diet of three mid-sized carnivores in a large neotropical wetland.
Ano de publicação: | 2014
Fonte/Imprenta: | Acta Theriologica, v. 59, n. 1, p. 13-23, 2014.
ISSN: | 0001-7051
DOI: | DOI 10.1007/s13364-013-0137-x
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | The diet and partitioning of food resources among mid-sized mammalian carnivores is poorly known, especially in the tropics. We evaluated the resource partitioning between Leopardus pardalis (ocelot), Cerdocyon thous (crab-eating fox), and Nasua nasua (brown-nosed coati) in the Pantanal of Brazil. Between December 2005 and February 2008, we collected data necessary to better understand interspecific, intraspecific, and seasonal variability in diet. Food habits were assessed by analysis of feces (n=293) collected from known individuals (n=128), and differences in dietary composition were evaluated through nonmetric dimensional scaling using the Jaccard similarity index. The main diet differences were observed between the specialist ocelot and the more generalist crab-eating fox and brown-nosed coati. Crab-eating foxes and brown-nosed coatis preyed on arthropods, fruits, and vertebrates whereas ocelots preyed almost entirely on vertebrates, mainly rodents and snakes. Ocelots? consumption of snakes was the highest ever recorded, as was the extent of carnivory by brownnosed coatis. For the crab-eating fox and the brown-nosed coati, there were large differences between the use of fruits and animal foods in the wet and dry season. Yet for both species there were no significant differences in the diets of males and females. Despite the conspicuous sexual dimorphism and spatial segregation that are typical of brown-nosed coatis, the results do not support the hypothesis that size dimorphism is primarily an adaptation to reduce intersexual competition for food. Rather, dimorphisms and patterns of space use may be more related to competition among males for access to females.
Palavras-Chave: | Frugivory; Intersexual competition.
Thesaurus Nal: | Cerdocyon thous; Leopardus pardalis; Nasua nasua.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Pantanal (CPAP)
Exemplares: | CPAP - (58996-1) - UPC - AP - PP - SP17893 -  - 17893 - DIS