Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité. Mais tu ne dois pas l'oublier, dit le renard. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
Le Petit Prince, chap. 21

Thursday 14 August 2014

Human infrastructures and feral pets explain the distribution of native carnivores

Zapata G, Branch L, 2014. Evaluación de los factores determinantes de presencia – ausencia de los carnívoros en los Andes ecuatorianos. En: Cuesta F, Sevink J, Llambí LD, De Bièvre B, Posner J, Editores. Avances en investigación para la conservación de los páramos andinos, CONDESAN.

Carnivore surveys using scent stations, camera traps and reconnaissance surveys were carried out in five study areas in the northern Ecuadorian Andes. Nine species of carnivores are known to occur in the Ecuadorian Andes (puma, pampas cat, Andean fox, long-tailed weasel, Colombian weasel, striped hog-nosed skunk, mountain coati, neotropical river otter, and Andean bear).
A total of six species were recorded. The pampas cat, the Colombian weasel, and the Neotropical river otter were the three species that were not recorded. Data analysis suggests that the “distance to the nearest
house”, the “distance to roads”, and the “presence of exotic carnivore species” (feral cats and dogs) are the
most important variables that explain the presence of native carnivore species in the paramo ecosystem of northern Ecuador.

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