Title
Diet overlap of the invasive house sparrow and the native rufous-collared sparrow in an agroecosystem of central coast of Peru
Other title
[Solapamiento de la dieta de passer domesticus y zonotrichia capensis en un agroecosistema de la costa central del perú]
Date Issued
01 May 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
We analyse the diet overlap of two species of sparrows in an agroecosystem of the Central Coast of Peru, one of the species is invasive House Sparrow, while the other is native Rufous-collared Sparrow. We show that although native species has a more diverse diet (H'= 2.07), than invasive species (H' = 1.63), they present high similarity between them (Dmax = 0.15, p> 0.05). The Schoener index was = 0.73 and together with the non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis they show a broad diet overlap of both sparrows in the different months of evaluation. These results allow to conclude that there is a potential impact of the invasion of House Sparrow on the native species Rufous-collared Sparrow by food overlap.
Start page
111
End page
116
Volume
25
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Conservación de la Biodiversidad Ecología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050458290
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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