Effects of human impacts on habitat use, activity patterns and ecological relationships among medium and small felids of the Atlantic Forest.

ABSTRACT: Competition theory and niche theory suggest that two morphologically similar species may coexist by reducing the overlap of at least one dimension of their ecological niche. The medium and small Neotropical felids are an interesting group of carnivore species for studying intraguild competition. Due to differences in size it is expected that the larger ocelot exert strong interference competition on the smaller felids (southern tiger cat, margay and jaguarundi); which, in turn, may exert exploitative competition among themselves. Moreover, landscape changes due to human activities may alter these interspecific interactions. We studied the habitat use and the spatial and temporal interspecific relations of the medium and small Atlantic Forest felids, in a landscape with different levels of

SUBMITTER: Cruz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070200 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature