Assessing the spatiotemporal interactions of mesopredators in Sumatra's tropical rainforest.

ABSTRACT: Co-occurrence between mesopredators can be achieved by differentiation of prey, temporal activity, and spatial habitat use. The study of mesopredator interactions is a growing area of research in tropical forests and shedding new light on inter-guild competition between threatened vertebrate species that were previously little understood. Here, we investigate sympatry between the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) and Asiatic golden cat (Pardofelis temminckii) living in the Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia. We investigate: i) spatial overlap of predator-prey species using a combination of single-species occupancy modelling and Bayesian two-species modelling, while controlling for the possible influence of several confounding landscape variables; and, ii) temporal overlap between meso

SUBMITTER: Haidir IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145507 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature