干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Occupancy and diet of the Indian desert fox Vulpes vulpes pusilla in a Prosopis juliflora invaded semi-arid grassland

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DOI	10.2981/wlb.00781
	Occupancy and diet of the Indian desert fox Vulpes vulpes pusilla in a Prosopis juliflora invaded semi-arid grassland
	Misher, Chetan; Vanak, Abi Tamim
通讯作者	Misher, C (corresponding author), Ashoka Trust Res Ecol & Environm, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. ; Misher, C (corresponding author), Manipal Acad Higher Educ, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
来源期刊	WILDLIFE BIOLOGY
ISSN	0909-6396
EISSN	1903-220X
出版年	2021
卷号	2021 期号:1
英文摘要	Encroachment by woody invasive plants has been recognized as a major driver of structural change in grasslands ecosystems. The impact of invasive plant-mediated changes on mammalian species from higher trophic levels is relatively less understood. This study aims to understand the impact of woody encroachment on the ecology of a relatively understudied mesopreclator, the Indian desert fox Vulpes v. pusilla in a semi-arid saline grassland ecosystem in Western India. We examined the site occupancy of the Indian desert fox at the landscape level, and den site selection at the micro-habitat scale. We also examined the diet of desert foxes during winter and summer season. We found that at the landscape level the desert fox selects more open Suaeda saline habitats over dense invasive Prosopis julifiora dominated habitats. At the scale of the den, proximity to water and vegetation cover were the main drivers of den site selection. Similar to other arid zone foxes, insects, plant materials and small mammals were the main components of the diet of Indian desert fox. Given its selection of open habitats, invasive shrub encroachment is likely to result in a loss of habitat as well as resources for this species, potentially impacting on the conservation status of this already range-restricted species in India.
英文关键词	Banni grasslands desert fox invasive plants V. vulpes pusilla Western India white-footed fox woody encroachment
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000672752300010
WOS关键词	MAMMALIAN CARNIVORE ; RODENT COMMUNITY ; PLANT INVASION ; FOOD RESOURCES ; CANIS-AUREUS ; JUNGLE CAT ; ENCROACHMENT ; BEHAVIOR ; CONSEQUENCES ; LANDSCAPE
WOS类目	Ecology ; Zoology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/364885
作者单位	[Misher, Chetan; Vanak, Abi Tamim] Ashoka Trust Res Ecol & Environm, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; [Misher, Chetan] Manipal Acad Higher Educ, Manipal, Karnataka, India; [Vanak, Abi Tamim] Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sch Life Sci, Westville, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Misher, Chetan,Vanak, Abi Tamim. Occupancy and diet of the Indian desert fox Vulpes vulpes pusilla in a Prosopis juliflora invaded semi-arid grassland[J],2021,2021(1).
APA	Misher, Chetan,&Vanak, Abi Tamim.(2021).Occupancy and diet of the Indian desert fox Vulpes vulpes pusilla in a Prosopis juliflora invaded semi-arid grassland.WILDLIFE BIOLOGY,2021(1).
MLA	Misher, Chetan,et al."Occupancy and diet of the Indian desert fox Vulpes vulpes pusilla in a Prosopis juliflora invaded semi-arid grassland".WILDLIFE BIOLOGY 2021.1(2021).