Title
Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
von May R.
Biggi E.
Cárdenas H.
Isabel Diaz M.
Alarcón C.
Herrera V.
Tomasinelli F.
Westeen E.P.
Sánchez-Paredes C.M.
Larson J.G.
Title P.O.
Grundler M.R.
Grundler M.C.
Rabosky A.R.D.
Rabosky D.L.
Publisher(s)
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Abstract
Ecological interactions such as those involving arthropod predators and parasitoids and their prey or hosts provide evidence for selective pressures influencing small vertebrate populations, and are key to understanding the many connections that shape food webs in tropical rainforests. Here, we document 15 predator-prey interactions involving different types of arthropod predators and vertebrate prey including frogs, lizards, snakes, and a mammal. Documented also are three cases of fly myiasis in frogs, and provide further evidence of a commensal relationship involving a tarantula and a narrow-mouthed frog in lowland Amazonian Peru.
Start page
65
End page
77
Volume
13
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Ecología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85063646521
Source
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
ISSN of the container
1083446X
Sponsor(s)
We thank the Amazon Conservation Association and the staffs at Los Amigos and Villa Carmen biological stations for facilitating our work at the stations. We also thank Project Amazonas and the staff at Madre Selva Research Station for assisting us in our work at that station. Field research was supported by a fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (to DLR), and by the Amazon Conservation Association (to RvM), the Wildlife Conservation Society (RvM), Rosemary Grant Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution (JGL), Edwin C. Hinsdale UMMZ Scholarship (JGL), and University of Michigan startup finds (ARDR). Research and collecting permits were issued by the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales (INRENA), the Dirección General Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (DGFFS), and the Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR), Peru (R.D. 11-2008-INRENA-IFFSDCB, 120-2012-AG-DGFFS-DGEFFS, 064-2013-AGDGFFS-DGEFFS, 292-2014-AG-DGFFS-DGEFFS, R.D.G. 029-2016-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS, R.D.G. 405-2016-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS). We thank I. Holmes, M. Cowan, I. Russell, P. Cerda, T.Y. Moore, J.C. Cusi, E.S. Vargas Laura, C. Macahuache Díaz, R. Villarcorta Díaz, E. Durand Salazar, E.M. Iglesias Antonio, N. Tafur Olortegui, O.L. Huacarpuma Aguilar, and Y. Casanca Leon for assistance in field data collection. We also thank R. Voss (American Museum of Natural History) and J. Patton (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology) for their help with the opossum indentification. We thank Jaime Villacampa, Chris Beirne, and one anonymous reviewer for providing constructive comments on the manuscript
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