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| Penido,Gabriel; Astete,Samuel; Furtado,Mariana Malzoni; Jácomo,Anah Tereza de Almeida; Sollmann,Rahel; Torres,Natalia; Silveira,Leandro; Marinho Filho,Jader. |
| Abstract Ocelots play a key role in ecological communities as mesopredators affecting the lower trophic level and other mesopredators. They show great variability in ecological traits across their distribution, but knowledge of this species is missing in several regions where it occurs. Here, we present the first study of ocelot in the Brazilian semiarid of Caatinga. Arid habitats might keep carnivore population density low and therefore vulnerable to environmental shocks and to human-induced changes, at risk of local extinction. To assess their population status, we used camera traps between September 2009 and January 2010. We estimated the density of ocelots using a spatially explicit capture-recapture method (SECR) to be 3.16 ± 0.46 individuals per 100... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Arid environments; Brazil; Density; Ocelot; SECR. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032016000400503 |
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