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Fragoso JMV, Antunes AP, Silvius KM, Constantino PAL, Zapata-Ríos G, Bizri HRE, Bodmer RE, Camino M, de Thoisy B, Wallace RB, Morcatty TQ, Mayor P, Richard-Hansen C, Hallett MT, Reyna-Hurtado RA, Beck HH, de Bustos S, Keuroghlian A, Nava A, Montenegro OL, Painkow Neto E, Altrichter M. Large-scale population disappearances and cycling in the white-lipped peccary, a tropical forest mammal. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0276297. [PMID: 36264921 PMCID: PMC9584423 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Many vertebrate species undergo population fluctuations that may be random or regularly cyclic in nature. Vertebrate population cycles in northern latitudes are driven by both endogenous and exogenous factors. Suggested causes of mysterious disappearances documented for populations of the Neotropical, herd-forming, white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari, henceforth “WLP”) include large-scale movements, overhunting, extreme floods, or disease outbreaks. By analyzing 43 disappearance events across the Neotropics and 88 years of commercial and subsistence harvest data for the Amazon, we show that WLP disappearances are widespread and occur regularly and at large spatiotemporal scales throughout the species’ range. We present evidence that the disappearances represent 7–12-year troughs in 20–30-year WLP population cycles occurring synchronously at regional and perhaps continent-wide spatial scales as large as 10,000–5 million km2. This may represent the first documented case of natural population cyclicity in a Neotropical mammal. Because WLP populations often increase dramatically prior to a disappearance, we posit that their population cycles result from over-compensatory, density-dependent mortality. Our data also suggest that the increase phase of a WLP cycle is partly dependent on recolonization from proximal, unfragmented and undisturbed forests. This highlights the importance of very large, continuous natural areas that enable source-sink population dynamics and ensure re-colonization and local population persistence in time and space.
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Affiliation(s)
- José M. V. Fragoso
- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA/MCTIC), Manaus, Brazil
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA/MCTIC), Manaus, Brazil
- RedeFauna–Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- RedeFauna–Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Museum of Amazonian Cultures-Fundamazonia, Iquitos, Loreto, Perú
- DICE, School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- Proyecto Quimilero, Roosevelt 4344, CABA, Resistencia, Argentina
- EDGE of Existence—Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil
- Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Departament de Sanitat i d’Anatomia Animals, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
- Museo de Culturas Indígenas Amazónicas, Loreto, Iquitos, Peru
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Institute for the Environment & Sustainability, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable de Salta, Santiago del Estero, Salta, Argentina
- Fundación Biodiversidad Argentina, Suipacha, Argentina
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Faculty Environmental Studies, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, United States of America
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Martinez WE, Reyna-Hurtado RA, Naranjo EJ, Thornton D, Cal RN, Figueroa OA. Occupancy rate and observations of Baird’s tapir (Tapirella bairdii) near waterholes in the Maya forest corridor, Belize. Therya 2021. [DOI: 10.12933/therya-21-969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
It is estimated that 25 % of the mammal species in the world are at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, fragmentation, farming, and overexploitation. Baird’s tapir (Tapirella bairdii), an ungulate with part of its distribution within the Maya Forest, is at risk of extinction. Waterholes, a primary source for water and an essential element for the survival of tapirs, were the target of this study design. We used a camera-trap survey to determine tapir occupancy and detection rate probability models at seven survey stations at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve which is located within the Maya Forest Corridor in central Belize. The survey was carried out from March to September 2015 and from January 2017 to October 2019 with a total sampling effort of 8,932 camera-trap nights. Our results indicated a cumulative naïve occupancy estimate of 85.7 %, a rate probability of occupancy of 0.97 +/- 0.15 (SE), and a probability of detection of 0.14 +/- 0.01 for all sites and years. The results of occupancy models with human infrastructure covariate showed that the distance to roads model had the highest influence on tapir occurrence (β = -0.95 +/- 0.87), followed by the village covariate model (β = 0.77 +/- 0.99). The topographic covariate of river model (β = 0.47 +/- 0.85) had minimal support. This study highlights the critical importance of waterholes for survival of tapirs, and the influence of roads on tapir occurrence at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve.
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Bonnell TR, Campennì M, Chapman CA, Gogarten JF, Reyna-Hurtado RA, Teichroeb JA, Wasserman MD, Sengupta R. Emergent group level navigation: an agent-based evaluation of movement patterns in a folivorous primate. PLoS One 2013; 8:e78264. [PMID: 24205174 PMCID: PMC3804626 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The foraging activity of many organisms reveal strategic movement patterns, showing efficient use of spatially distributed resources. The underlying mechanisms behind these movement patterns, such as the use of spatial memory, are topics of considerable debate. To augment existing evidence of spatial memory use in primates, we generated movement patterns from simulated primate agents with simple sensory and behavioral capabilities. We developed agents representing various hypotheses of memory use, and compared the movement patterns of simulated groups to those of an observed group of red colobus monkeys (Procolobus rufomitratus), testing for: the effects of memory type (Euclidian or landmark based), amount of memory retention, and the effects of social rules in making foraging choices at the scale of the group (independent or leader led). Our results indicate that red colobus movement patterns fit best with simulated groups that have landmark based memory and a follow the leader foraging strategy. Comparisons between simulated agents revealed that social rules had the greatest impact on a group's step length, whereas the type of memory had the highest impact on a group's path tortuosity and cohesion. Using simulation studies as experimental trials to test theories of spatial memory use allows the development of insight into the behavioral mechanisms behind animal movement, developing case-specific results, as well as general results informing how changes to perception and behavior influence movement patterns.
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- Tyler R. Bonnell
- Deptartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Deptartment of Anthropology & McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec and Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Deptartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- University of California Santa Cruz, Anthropology Department, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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- Deptartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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