Title
Living at the top of the forest line: medium and large mammals in a high-mountain ecotone in Peruvian Central Andes
Other title
Vivendo no topo da linha florestal: mamíferos de médio e grande porte em um ecótono alto-montano nos Andes Centrais Peruanos
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Melo-Dias M.
ALIAGA HUATUCO, JESENIA FLORA
Passamani M.
Publisher(s)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP
Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
Abstract
Among the ecoregions that comprise the high-Andean zone of the Tropical Andes, the Puna and the Yungas stand out for covering a large part of the Peruvian Eastern Andes. Located in the ecotone of these two ecoregions, the Pampa Hermosa National Sanctuary (PHNS) houses one of the priority areas for conservation in Peru. However, the biodiversity of the high-Andean zone of the sanctuary and its surroundings remains poorly studied. Thus, through camera traps and transects, we sought to inventory for the first time the medium and large mammals from the high-Andean region of the PHNS and its buffer zone. We recorded 11 native and three domestic species of medium and large mammals. The richness of native mammals sampled reached 91.7% of the estimated richness (S est.= 11.99 ± 1.85). Among the native species Odocoileus virginianus had the highest relative frequency (56%). We recorded three endemic mammals from the Tropical Andes, Cuniculus taczanowskii, Tremarctos ornatus, and Pudu mephistopheles. The observed richness was higher than most surveys of medium and large mammals carried out in the Puna-forest ecotone in Peru, where the reported richness ranged from 4 to 13 species. In addition, our records of Leopardus pardalis and Eira barbara are the highest for all distribution of these two carnivores. Our results showed that more than 90% of the species recorded were found in it, demonstrating that the entire high-Andean region of the PHNS and its surroundings has an important value for the local mammal community.
Start page
1
End page
11
Volume
22
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85130759592
Source
Biota Neotropica
ISSN of the container
1676-0603
Sponsor(s)
We thank the people of S.P. Churco for all support in the field, especially Ms. Cerila, Mr. Amancio Ticse, Mr. Pedro Ticse and Mr. Saturnino. We thank the Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado (SERNANP), through the PHNS rangers, for their support in data collection, especially Julio César Vilcarano. We are also grateful to Letícia Ribeiro, Davi Alves, Laodicéia Pereira and Paolo Ramoni Perazzi for their help in sorting the data. We thank Adriano Chiarello and Adriano Paglia for critically reviewing the manuscript. MMD thanks the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brazil (CAPES) for providing his grant. We thank the anonymous reviewers for comments and improvements to the present manuscript. The data collection for this work was carried out under authorization code Nº. AUT-IFS-2020-045 issued by MINAGRI/ SERFOR-Peru.
especially Ms. Cerila, Mr. Amancio Ticse, Mr. Pedro Ticse and Mr. Saturnino. We thank the Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado (SERNANP), through the PHNS rangers, for their support in data collection, especially Julio César Vilcarano. We are also grateful to Letícia Ribeiro, Davi Alves, Laodicéia Pereira and Paolo Ramoni Perazzi for their help in sorting the data. We thank Adriano Chiarello and Adriano Paglia for critically reviewing the manuscript. MMD thanks the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brazil (CAPES) for providing his grant. We thank the anonymous reviewers for comments and improvements to the present manuscript. The data collection for this work was carried out under authorization code Nº. AUT-IFS-2020-045 issued by MINAGRI/ SERFOR - Peru.
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