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Carnivores and their prey in Sumatra: Occupancy and activity in human-dominated forests

PloS one, 2022-03, Vol.17 (3), p.e0265440-e0265440 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Carnivores and their prey in Sumatra: Occupancy and activity in human-dominated forests
Author: Widodo, Febri Anggriawan ; Imron, Muhammad Ali ; Sunarto, Sunarto ; Giordano, Anthony J
Weckerly, Floyd W
Subjects: Analysis ; Animal welfare ; Animals ; Anthropogenic factors ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Cameras ; Carnivora ; Carnivores ; Cats ; Conservation ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Cuon alpinus ; Ecology ; Ecology and Environmental Sciences ; Ecosystem ; Elevation ; Environmental conditions ; Environmental protection ; Evaluation ; Forestry ; Forests ; Habitat utilization ; Habitats ; Helarctos malayanus ; Human influences ; Humans ; Indonesia ; Laboratories ; Landscape ; Management ; Methods ; National parks ; Neofelis nebulosa diardi ; Occupancy ; Panthera tigris sumatrae ; Population ; Prey ; Protected areas ; Protection and preservation ; Threatened species ; Tigers ; Wildlife conservation
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2022-03, Vol.17 (3), p.e0265440-e0265440
Description: Understanding the effect of anthropogenic disturbance, and its interaction with carnivores and their prey, is crucial to support the conservation of threatened carnivores, particularly in rapidly changing landscapes. Based on systematic camera-trap sampling of four protected areas in Riau Province of central Sumatra, we assessed the habitat occupancy and spatiotemporal overlap between people, potential carnivore prey, and four threatened species of medium-sized or large carnivores: Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae), Malayan sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), dholes (Cuon alpinus), and Sunda clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi). To assess spatial overlap of target species, we used single-species occupancy models and applied a Species Interaction Factor (SIF) to conditional two-species occupancy models. We also used kernel density estimation (KDE) to assess temporal overlap among these species. Our habitat use models showed that altitude (elevation) strongly influenced the occupancy of all large carnivores and potential prey species. Except for Sunda clouded leopards, the occurrence of large carnivore species was positively related to the spatial co-occurrence of humans (SIF > 1). In addition, we found that sun bears and dholes both exhibited high spatial overlap with tigers, and that sun bears alone exhibited high temporal overlap with people. Our findings contribute to an improved understanding of the contemporary ecology of carnivores and their prey in rapidly changing, southeast Asian landscapes. Such knowledge is important to the conservation and recovery of large carnivores in conservation hotspots that are increasingly dominated by humans across Sumatra, as well as globally.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265440
PMID: 35303739
Source: PLoS (Open access)
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