Determining carnivore habitat use in a rubber/forest landscape in Brazil using multispecies occupancy models.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors that influence the presence and distribution of carnivores in human-dominated agricultural landscapes is one of the main challenges for biodiversity conservation, especially in landscapes where setting aside large protected areas is not feasible. Habitat use models of carnivore communities in rubber plantations are lacking despite the critical roles carnivores play in structuring ecosystems and the increasing expansion of rubber plantations. We investigated the habitat use of a mammalian carnivore community within a 4,200-ha rubber plantation/forest landscape in Bahia, Brazil. We placed two different brands of camera traps in a 90-site grid. We used a multispecies occupancy model to determine the probabilities of habitat use by each species and the effect of diffe

SUBMITTER: Dechner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901926 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature