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DOI10.1515/mammalia-2014-0142
Diet of brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and food availability in High Andean mountains (Mendoza, Argentina)
Puig, Silvia1; Rosi, Maria I.1; Videla, Fernando1; Mendez, Eduardo2
通讯作者Puig, Silvia
来源期刊MAMMALIA
ISSN0025-1461
EISSN1864-1547
出版年2016
卷号80期号:3页码:293-303
英文摘要

Diet selection by Lepus europaeus was studied in high-altitude mountain environments with severe weather, presence of wetlands, and no agricultural activities. Diet was assessed using fecal microhistological analysis, and food availability by point-quadrat transects in four habitats, two of them with wetlands. Significant differences were determined with Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA, similarities by Renkonen index, and feeding selection by chi(2)-test and Bailey’s confidence interval. The diet included 63% of all species present. Shrubs dominated the diet. Food use was opportunistic in habitats without wetlands, where grasses and shrubs were more available. Plant cover and availability of grass-like plants were higher in wetland habitats, where shrubs and forbs were preferred and grass-like plants were avoided. Similarity between diet and food availability was higher on dry soils, dominated by grasses and shrubs, than in wetland microhabitats with higher plant cover, diversity, and percentage of grass-like plants. Dietary generalism was confirmed, especially when excluding wetland vegetation. Hard Juncaceae cushions accounted for the pronounced selectivity in habitats with wetlands. Dry soils, where shrub patches provided good food and shelter, appear as major feeding microhabitats for L. europaeus. Spatial heterogeneity protection, at landscape and microhabitat scales, is relevant to the brown hare conservation in High Andean environments.


英文关键词arid environments dietary selection high altitudes Leporidae
类型Article
语种英语
国家Argentina
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000375656100006
WOS关键词VEGETATION ; BREADTH
WOS类目Zoology
WOS研究方向Zoology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/194999
作者单位1.Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, IADIZA, Grp Ecol & Manejo Vertebrados Silvestres GEMAVER, CC 507, RA-5500 Mendoza, Argentina;
2.Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, IADIZA, Grp Bot & Fitosociol, CC 507, RA-5500 Mendoza, Argentina
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Puig, Silvia,Rosi, Maria I.,Videla, Fernando,et al. Diet of brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and food availability in High Andean mountains (Mendoza, Argentina)[J],2016,80(3):293-303.
APA Puig, Silvia,Rosi, Maria I.,Videla, Fernando,&Mendez, Eduardo.(2016).Diet of brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and food availability in High Andean mountains (Mendoza, Argentina).MAMMALIA,80(3),293-303.
MLA Puig, Silvia,et al."Diet of brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and food availability in High Andean mountains (Mendoza, Argentina)".MAMMALIA 80.3(2016):293-303.
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