Effects of free-ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community.

ABSTRACT: Mammalian communities inhabiting temperate grasslands are of conservation concern globally, especially in Central Asia, where livestock numbers have dramatically increased in recent decades, leading to overgrazing and land-use change. Yet, how this pervasive presence of livestock herds affects the community of wild mammals remains largely unstudied. We used systematic camera trapping at 216 sites across remote, mountainous areas of the Mongolian Altai Mountains to assess the spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence and the interspecific relationships within a mammalian community that includes different categories of livestock. By adopting a recently proposed multispecies occupancy model that incorporates interspecific correlation in occupancy, we found several statistically strong corre

SUBMITTER: Salvatori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9788037 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature