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An Exemplary Case Study Gérard Dubost
Convergence characteristics between a rodent, the South American lowland paca, and a ruminant, the African water chevrotain: An exemplary case study Gérard Dubost To cite this version: Gérard Dubost. Convergence characteristics between a rodent, the South American lowland paca, and a ruminant, the African water chevrotain: An exemplary case study. Comptes Rendus Biologies, Elsevier Masson, 2017, 10.1016/j.crvi.2017.02.001. hal-01485153 HAL Id: hal-01485153 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01485153 Submitted on 8 Mar 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License G Model CRASS3-3495; No. of Pages 10 C. R. Biologies xxx (2017) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Comptes Rendus Biologies ww w.sciencedirect.com Ecology/E´ cologie Convergence characteristics between a rodent, the South American lowland paca, and a ruminant, the African water chevrotain: An exemplary case study Caracte`res convergents entre un rongeur, le -
Working Paper Series
Working Paper No. 58, 2013 Landscapes of Freedom and Inequality Environmental Histories of the Pacific and Caribbean Coasts of Colombia Claudia Leal and Shawn Van Ausdal Working Paper Series desiguALdades.net Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series Published by desiguALdades.net International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America The desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series serves to disseminate first results of ongoing research projects in order to encourage the exchange of ideas and academic debate. Inclusion of a paper in the desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series does not constitute publication and should not limit publication in any other venue. Copyright remains with the authors. Copyright for this edition: Claudia Leal and Shawn Van Ausdal Editing and Production: Barbara Göbel / Laura Kemmer / Paul Talcott All working papers are available free of charge on our website www.desiguALdades.net. Leal, Claudia and Van Ausdal, Shawn 2013: “Landscapes of Freedom and Inequality: Environmental Histories of the Pacific and Caribbean Coasts of Colombia”, desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 58, Berlin: desiguALdades.net International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America. The paper was produced by Claudia Leal and Shawn Van Ausdal as a result of discussions at desiguALdades.net in the context of a conference (11/2012) and a workshop (08/2013). desiguALdades.net International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America cannot be held responsible for errors or any consequences arising from the use of information contained in this Working Paper; the views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author or authors and do not necessarily reflect those of desiguALdades.net. -
Vertebrate Community Changes Across a 3200M Amazon-To- Andes Gradient: Composition, Structure, and Occupancy by Daniel A. Lough
VERTEBRATE COMMUNITY CHANGES ACROSS A 3200M AMAZON-TO- ANDES GRADIENT: COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, AND OCCUPANCY BY DANIEL A. LOUGH A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Biology December, 2017 Winston Salem, North Carolina Approved By: Miles R. Silman, Ph.D., Advisor William E. Conner, Ph.D., Chair Todd M. Anderson, Ph.D. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS From the start, I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Miles Silman, for his insightful guidance and constant enthusiasm throughout this process. I’d also like to thank the members of my committee, Dr. William Conner and Dr. Michael Anderson, for lending their time and perspective to this project. I’ve also benefited from the guidance and support of the entire Silman Lab: William Farfan Rios, Cassie Freund, Rachel Hillyer, Jorge Cabellero Espejo, Max Messinger, and Jared Beaver. I am indebted to Dr. Russell Van Horn, Dr. Nicholas Pilfold, and Dr. Mathias Tobler at San Diego Zoo Global’s Institute for Conservation Research for their logistical and methodological support throughout this project. I owe a great deal of gratitude to Leydi Vanessa Aucacusi Choque, Ricardo Vivanco, and Fredy Martin Guizado for their assistance in the field and their many hours of hard work. I would like to thank my undergraduate researchers that assisted me in classifying the thousands of camera trap photos: Rebecca Wiebki, Kimiko Morris, Zachary Taylor, Kyla Mathon, Kristin Lanier, Nicholas Mouser, and Kiley Price. I would also like to thank SERNANP-Manu and the staff at Manu National park, for permitting this project. -
Activity Patterns of Terrestrial Mammals at Springhill, Arima Valley, Trinidad Mike G
Activity Patterns of Terrestrial Mammals at Springhill, Arima Valley, Trinidad Mike G. Rutherford¹ and Kimberly Chu Foon² ¹The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum, Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago ²Asa Wright Nature Centre, Springhill Estate, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT Camera-traps were used to record terrestrial mammals over a period of 19 months at the Springhill Estate, Arima Valley, Trinidad. Eleven species or taxonomic groups were recorded during 925 trap nights. We describe the activity patterns with respect to time of day and lunar cycle for several of these species. Although these patterns mostly reflect current knowledge of the behaviour of these species based on existing literature, we found some minor differences. Key words: Camera-trapping, mammals, Trinidad, activity patterns, tropical forests. INTRODUCTION The terrestrial mammals of Trinidad are well known 1952) but there had been no recent general surveys. This and are a subset of those mammals occurring on the South study aims to give an update on the diversity and activity American mainland (Allen and Chapman 1893) (Alkins patterns of small to medium mammals. 1979). However, knowledge of the behaviour of many of these species is still limited. Camera trapping provides a MATERIALS AND METHODS relatively simple way of discovering more about many of Study Site these often nocturnal and elusive species. The study occurred on the Springhill Estate in the The use of camera-traps to monitor mammals has Arima Valley on the southern slopes of the Northern Range become widespread over the last few decades and as in Trinidad. -
List of 28 Orders, 129 Families, 598 Genera and 1121 Species in Mammal Images Library 31 December 2013
What the American Society of Mammalogists has in the images library LIST OF 28 ORDERS, 129 FAMILIES, 598 GENERA AND 1121 SPECIES IN MAMMAL IMAGES LIBRARY 31 DECEMBER 2013 AFROSORICIDA (5 genera, 5 species) – golden moles and tenrecs CHRYSOCHLORIDAE - golden moles Chrysospalax villosus - Rough-haired Golden Mole TENRECIDAE - tenrecs 1. Echinops telfairi - Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec 2. Hemicentetes semispinosus – Lowland Streaked Tenrec 3. Microgale dobsoni - Dobson’s Shrew Tenrec 4. Tenrec ecaudatus – Tailless Tenrec ARTIODACTYLA (83 genera, 142 species) – paraxonic (mostly even-toed) ungulates ANTILOCAPRIDAE - pronghorns Antilocapra americana - Pronghorn BOVIDAE (46 genera) - cattle, sheep, goats, and antelopes 1. Addax nasomaculatus - Addax 2. Aepyceros melampus - Impala 3. Alcelaphus buselaphus - Hartebeest 4. Alcelaphus caama – Red Hartebeest 5. Ammotragus lervia - Barbary Sheep 6. Antidorcas marsupialis - Springbok 7. Antilope cervicapra – Blackbuck 8. Beatragus hunter – Hunter’s Hartebeest 9. Bison bison - American Bison 10. Bison bonasus - European Bison 11. Bos frontalis - Gaur 12. Bos javanicus - Banteng 13. Bos taurus -Auroch 14. Boselaphus tragocamelus - Nilgai 15. Bubalus bubalis - Water Buffalo 16. Bubalus depressicornis - Anoa 17. Bubalus quarlesi - Mountain Anoa 18. Budorcas taxicolor - Takin 19. Capra caucasica - Tur 20. Capra falconeri - Markhor 21. Capra hircus - Goat 22. Capra nubiana – Nubian Ibex 23. Capra pyrenaica – Spanish Ibex 24. Capricornis crispus – Japanese Serow 25. Cephalophus jentinki - Jentink's Duiker 26. Cephalophus natalensis – Red Duiker 1 What the American Society of Mammalogists has in the images library 27. Cephalophus niger – Black Duiker 28. Cephalophus rufilatus – Red-flanked Duiker 29. Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker 30. Cephalophus zebra - Zebra Duiker 31. Connochaetes gnou - Black Wildebeest 32. Connochaetes taurinus - Blue Wildebeest 33. Damaliscus korrigum – Topi 34. -
Esmeraldas, ECUADOR Mamíferos De La Laguna De Cube, Reserva
Esmeraldas, ECUADOR 1 Mamíferos de la Laguna de Cube, Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul Marco Avila1, Mercy Cabrera1, Alfredo Carranco1, Alejandro Lara1, Manuel Loor1, Jairo Marín1, Juan Ostaiza1, Silvana Sabando1, Bryan Villavicencio1, Carlos Urgiles2, Freddy Gallo2 & Hugo Trávez2 Fotos:Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul. Producido por ICCA, con el apoyo de: OCP ECUADOR. © 1 Ministerio del Ambiente, Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul. Calle 3 de Julio y onceava transversal. Quinidé-Ecuador © 2 Instituto para la Conservación y Capacitación Ambiental “ICCA”. Mariano Cardenal N74-153 y Joaquin Mancheno, Quito-Ecuador. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1026] versión 1 7/2018 1 Cuniculus paca 2 Cuniculus paca 3 Cuniculus paca CUNICULIDAE CUNICULIDAE CUNICULIDAE Paca de Tierras Bajas Paca de Tierras Bajas Paca de Tierras Bajas Lowland Paca Lowland Paca Lowland Paca 4 Dasypus novemcinctus 5 Dasypus novemcinctus 6 Dasypus novemcinctus DASYPODIDAE DASYPODIDAE DASYPODIDAE Armadillo de Nueve Bandas Armadillo de Nueve Bandas Armadillo de Nueve Bandas Nine-banded Armadillo Nine-banded Armadillo Nine-banded Armadillo 7 Dasypus novemcinctus 8 Dasypus novemcinctus 9 Dasypus novemcinctus DASYPODIDAE DASYPODIDAE DASYPODIDAE Armadillo de Nueve Bandas Armadillo de Nueve Bandas Armadillo de Nueve Bandas Nine-banded Armadillo Nine-banded Armadillo Nine-banded Armadillo Esmeraldas, ECUADOR 2 Mamíferos de la Laguna de Cube, Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul Marco Avila1, Mercy Cabrera1, Alfredo Carranco1, Alejandro Lara1, Manuel Loor1, Jairo Marín1, Juan Ostaiza1, Silvana Sabando1, Bryan Villavicencio1, Carlos Urgiles2, Freddy Gallo2 & Hugo Trávez2 Fotos:Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul. Producido por ICCA, con el apoyo de: OCP ECUADOR. © 1 Ministerio del Ambiente, Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul. Calle 3 de Julio y onceava transversal. Quinidé-Ecuador © 2 Instituto para la Conservación y Capacitación Ambiental “ICCA”. -
Abundance, Density and Habitat Use of Lowland Paca (Cuniculus Paca, Rodentia: Cuniculidae) in the Lacandon Rainforest, Chiapas, Mexico
THERYA, 2017, Vol. 8 (3): 199-208 DOI: 10.12933/therya-17-460 ISSN 2007-3364 Abundance, density and habitat use of lowland paca (Cuniculus paca, Rodentia: Cuniculidae) in the Lacandon Rainforest, Chiapas, Mexico AVRIL FIGUEROA-DE-LEÓN1*, EDUARDO J. NARANJO1, HUGO PERALES1, ANTONIO SANTOS-MORENO2 AND CONSUELO LORENZO1 1 El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur s/n, , CP. 29290, San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Chiapas, México. Email: [email protected] (AFL), [email protected] (EN), [email protected] (HP), [email protected] (CL). 2 Laboratorio de Ecología Animal, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Hornos No. 1003, Col. La Noche Buena, CP. 71230, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán. Oaxaca, México. Email: [email protected] (ASM). * Corresponding author In this study, the effect of relevant variables (availability of food and cavities, competition, predation, and hunting pressure) on the rela- tive abundance and population density of the spotted lowland paca (Cuniculus paca) was assessed. In addition, habitat use of this species at three sites with different land use regime (Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, community reserves, and anthropic sites) in the Lacandon Rainforest, Chiapas, Mexico was analysed. From the perspective of the source-sink systems, it was predicted that pacas selectively would use the habitat with higher food and cavity availability (source habitats), where higher densities were expected. Twelve transects were located in three sites with different land use regimes, where food availability and potential cavities used by pacas were assessed. Along these transects, 4 camera-traps were deployed every 200 meters to estimate the relative abundance of pacas and their potential competitors and predators. -
THE AGOUTI DASYPROCTA LEPORINA (RODENTIA: DASYPROCTIDAE) AS SEED DISPERSER of the PALM ASTROCARYUM ACULEATISSIMUM Mastozoología Neotropical, Vol
Mastozoología Neotropical ISSN: 0327-9383 [email protected] Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Argentina Pires, Alexandra S.; Galetti, Mauro THE AGOUTI DASYPROCTA LEPORINA (RODENTIA: DASYPROCTIDAE) AS SEED DISPERSER OF THE PALM ASTROCARYUM ACULEATISSIMUM Mastozoología Neotropical, vol. 19, núm. 1, enero-junio, 2012, pp. 147-153 Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Tucumán, Argentina Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=45723408013 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Mastozoología Neotropical, 19(1):147-153, Mendoza, 2012 ISSN 0327-9383 ©SAREM, 2012 Versión on-line ISSN 1666-0536 http://www.sarem.org.ar THE AGOUTI Dasyprocta leporina (RODENTIA: DASYPROCTIDAE) AS SEED DISPERSER OF THE PALM Astrocaryum aculeatissimum Alexandra S. Pires1 and Mauro Galetti1,2 1 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, CP 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brasil; present adress: Departamento de Ciências Am- bientais, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Rodovia BR 465, Km 07, Seropédica, RJ 23890-000, Brasil [Correspondence: <[email protected]>]. 2 Laboratório de Biologia da Conservação, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, CP 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brasil. ABSTRACT: Some large-seeded plants depend heavily on agoutis for seedling recruitment. The importance of Dasyprocta leporina as seed disperser of the Atlantic Forest palm Astrocaryum aculeatissimum was evaluated using camera-traps and seed removal experiments. -
List of Taxa for Which MIL Has Images
LIST OF 27 ORDERS, 163 FAMILIES, 887 GENERA, AND 2064 SPECIES IN MAMMAL IMAGES LIBRARY 31 JULY 2021 AFROSORICIDA (9 genera, 12 species) CHRYSOCHLORIDAE - golden moles 1. Amblysomus hottentotus - Hottentot Golden Mole 2. Chrysospalax villosus - Rough-haired Golden Mole 3. Eremitalpa granti - Grant’s Golden Mole TENRECIDAE - tenrecs 1. Echinops telfairi - Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec 2. Hemicentetes semispinosus - Lowland Streaked Tenrec 3. Microgale cf. longicaudata - Lesser Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec 4. Microgale cowani - Cowan’s Shrew Tenrec 5. Microgale mergulus - Web-footed Tenrec 6. Nesogale cf. talazaci - Talazac’s Shrew Tenrec 7. Nesogale dobsoni - Dobson’s Shrew Tenrec 8. Setifer setosus - Greater Hedgehog Tenrec 9. Tenrec ecaudatus - Tailless Tenrec ARTIODACTYLA (127 genera, 308 species) ANTILOCAPRIDAE - pronghorns Antilocapra americana - Pronghorn BALAENIDAE - bowheads and right whales 1. Balaena mysticetus – Bowhead Whale 2. Eubalaena australis - Southern Right Whale 3. Eubalaena glacialis – North Atlantic Right Whale 4. Eubalaena japonica - North Pacific Right Whale BALAENOPTERIDAE -rorqual whales 1. Balaenoptera acutorostrata – Common Minke Whale 2. Balaenoptera borealis - Sei Whale 3. Balaenoptera brydei – Bryde’s Whale 4. Balaenoptera musculus - Blue Whale 5. Balaenoptera physalus - Fin Whale 6. Balaenoptera ricei - Rice’s Whale 7. Eschrichtius robustus - Gray Whale 8. Megaptera novaeangliae - Humpback Whale BOVIDAE (54 genera) - cattle, sheep, goats, and antelopes 1. Addax nasomaculatus - Addax 2. Aepyceros melampus - Common Impala 3. Aepyceros petersi - Black-faced Impala 4. Alcelaphus caama - Red Hartebeest 5. Alcelaphus cokii - Kongoni (Coke’s Hartebeest) 6. Alcelaphus lelwel - Lelwel Hartebeest 7. Alcelaphus swaynei - Swayne’s Hartebeest 8. Ammelaphus australis - Southern Lesser Kudu 9. Ammelaphus imberbis - Northern Lesser Kudu 10. Ammodorcas clarkei - Dibatag 11. Ammotragus lervia - Aoudad (Barbary Sheep) 12. -
Our Icelandic Relations
[email protected] Tel: (868) 667-4655 December 2017 Our Icelandic Relations Guide, Jessie Pitt, gives some of the Icelanders, along with other guests, an introduction for the Oilbird tour. Photo: Elin Laxdal By Peter O’Connor estate operations became financially unviable, some of these people purchased it and established the Asa Wright There are no formal diplomatic relations between the Nature Centre. The proceeds from the sale of Spring Hill island nations of Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago. But Estate were used by Ása to establish a trust fund for the deep bonds have existed between us, islands close to the National Museum of Iceland, to support the Icelandic Equator and an island on the edge of the Arctic Circle, for Scientific Society. The Asa Wright Nature Centre was over 50 years. opened in November 1967, and the trust fund founded About a dozen Icelanders came to visit us in November. in Iceland in 1968. They came to cement a bond, established tenuously So, our Icelandic friends and colleagues came here to in the 1940s, but formalized in the late 1960s, and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Asa Wright Nature acknowledged more in Iceland than in Trinidad and Centre. And some of us will visit them in Iceland during Tobago. They came to honour a countrywoman of theirs, 2018 to celebrate the anniversary of Ása’s trust fund there. who came to live among us, in a rural setting, on a coffee They came to share their work with us, the work begun and cocoa estate high in the forested Northern Range. -
A REVIEW of the ORNITHOLOGY of TRINIDAD and TOBAGO 1950-1985 Richard Ffrench Toftingal Laurieston Road, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas, Scotland DG7 2BE
A REVIEW OF THE ORNITHOLOGY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 1950-1985 Richard ffrench Toftingal Laurieston Road, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas, Scotland DG7 2BE Introduction In presenti ng this historical review of the progress of The first book to attempt to remedy th is situation was ornithology on Trin idad and Tobago over a 35-year pe riod , I produced locally in 1950, not by an ornitho logist but b y an am conscious that I may have omitted mentio n of work elderly Catholic priest, Father Raymund Devas, who lived in unknown to me, or which I have been unable to remember. If Grenada. It cont ai ned virtua ll y no illustrations, was very so, I apologise to those concerned. Nevertheless, I was res i short and fairly inaccurate, but it did contain an a l most com dent on Trinidad for nearl y 30 of those years and actively plete list of species and it was a start. A s imilar attempt to in volved in ornithology, so I me t, corresponded or worked en li ghten interested visitors was made by Mrs. K. Alford with with the majority of those mentioned be low . I hope 1 have notes on birds in a Tobago guide-book at about thi s time. d o ne them justice. Popular articles illustrated by photographs and very inade quate paintings appeared in oil company magazi nes written The Fifties by J o hnson ( 1956-57) and Saunders ( 1956, 1957), and th ese In common with most neolropical cou ntri es at the mid may have helped to arouse the latent interest in birds amo ng century, Trinidad and Tobago cou ld produ ce little evidence of the people of Trinidad and Tobago. -
Trinidad: Featuring Asa Wright Nature Centre
TRINIDAD: FEATURING ASA WRIGHT NATURE CENTRE FEBRUARY 14-21, 2019 ©2018 This tour promises a wonderful introduction to the natural history of the American tropics and its varied bird life. Featuring a marvelous diversity of birds, newcomers and experienced birders and naturalists alike can get acquainted with most of the New World tropical families of birds and sharpen their skills on an avifauna with a distinctly South American flavor. We will enjoy a seven-night stay at the world famous Asa Wright Nature Centre, an old plantation-style great house turned research center that has hosted a veritable Who’s Who of scientists, such as William Beebe and David Snow. Some of their pioneering studies of fruit-eating birds and of the relationships between frugivorous birds and their host plants are considered classic studies that have laid the foundation for later work by others. During our time at Asa Wright, we should see representative birds of many New World tropical families such as parrots, trogons, woodcreepers, antbirds, manakins, and motmots, and also come to appreciate the fascinating evolutionary expansion that several familiar groups, such as flycatchers and finches, have undergone. Many mornings will begin with a vigil on the famous veranda, from which we can study at close range the suite of spectacular and colorful birds (especially hummingbirds and tanagers) that roam the surrounding gardens. The Centre grounds are also home to one of the most accessible Oilbird roosting, nesting caves, and we will walk down to Dunston Cave for a look at these avian wonders. There is also the strong possibility of viewing lekking manakins (two species) near the Centre, a natural history spectacle that must be seen to be Trinidad, Page 2 believed.