A forest-specialist carnivore in the middle of the desert?Comments on https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5230.

Autor: Moreira-Arce D; Laboratorio de Estudios del Antropoceno Facultad de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile., Silva-Rodríguez EA; Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile., Napolitano C; Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Biodiversidad Universidad de Los Lagos Osorno Chile.; Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB) Santiago Chile., D'Elía G; Facultad de Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile., Cabello J; Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria Universidad San Sebastián Puerto Montt Chile., Millán J; Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida Universidad Andrés Bello Santiago Chile.; Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón-IA2 Universidad de Zaragoza-CITA Zaragoza Spain.; Fundación ARAID Zaragoza Spain., Hidalgo-Hermoso E; Departamento de Conservación Parque Zoologico Buin Zoo Buin Chile., Farías AA; Departamento de Ecología y Gestión Ambiental Centro Universitario Regional Este (CURE-Maldonado) Universidad de la República Maldonado Uruguay.; Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile.; Centro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CIICC) Universidad Santo Tomás Santiago Chile.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology and evolution [Ecol Evol] 2020 Mar 25; Vol. 10 (8), pp. 3825-3830. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Mar 25 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6132
Abstrakt: We present comments on an article recently published in Ecology and Evolution ("High-resolution melting of the cytochrome B gene in fecal DNA: A powerful approach for fox species identification of the Lycalopex genus in Chile") by Anabalon et al. that reported the presence of Darwin's fox ( Lycalopex fulvipes ), a temperate forest specialist, in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile. We argue that this putative record lacks ecological support in light of ongoing research on this endangered species, and contains numerous methodological flaws and omissions related to the molecular identification of the species. Based on these issues, we suggest the scientific community and conservation decision-makers disregard the alleged presence of the Darwin's fox in the Atacama Desert.
Competing Interests: None declared.
(© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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