Food habits of two leopard species, competition, climate change and upper treeline: a way to the decrease of an endangered species?
| Autor: | M. Ventimiglia, Sandro Lovari, Isabelle Minder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Ecology
biology Evolution Animal Science and Zoology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics carnivore evolution coexistence sympatric species diet Panthera uncia sympatric species coexistence Endangered species Leopard fictional_universe fictional_universe.character_species Predation Behavior and Systematics Habitat Snow leopard biology.animal carnivore evolution Carnivore Panthera diet |
| Zdroj: | Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 25:305-318 |
| ISSN: | 1828-7131 0394-9370 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03949370.2013.806362 |
| Popis: | For carnivore species, spatial avoidance is one of the evolutionary solutions to coexist in an area, especially if food habits overlap and body sizes tend to coincide. We reviewed the diets of two large cats of similar sizes, the endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia, 16 studies) and the near-threatened common leopard (Panthera pardus, 11 studies), in Asia. These cats share ca 10,000 km2 of their mountainous range, although snow leopards tend to occur at a significantly higher altitude than common leopards, the former being a cold-adapted species of open habitats, whereas the latter is an ecologically flexible one, with a preference for woodland. The spectrum of prey of common leopards was 2.5 times greater than that of snow leopards, with wild prey being the staple for both species. Livestock rarely contributed much to the diet. When the breadth of trophic niches was compared, overlap ranged from 0.83 (weight categories) to one (main food categories). As these leopard species have approximately the sam... |
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