Produção Nacional
Activity patterns of mammals at Quedas do Rio Bonito Ecological Park, Lavras City, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
2019; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.18406/2316-1817v11n220191281
ISSN2316-1817
AutoresEllen Cristina Mões Oliveira, Felipe Santana Machado, Antônio Carlos da Silva Zanzini,
Tópico(s)Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
ResumoThe activity patterns present a temporal partition of species cohabiting the same area in orderto avoid competition. Moreover, it optimizes capture efforts and provides information on the naturalhistory of species. Nevertheless, anthropic impacts compromise this activity by changing the patterns.Since there is a lack of studies in the last decades, this work demonstrates and discusses the pattern ofactivity of medium and large mammals in an ecological park in the south of the state of Minas Gerais,Brazil. Photographic trapping registered two species classified as cathemeral, four as nocturnal andtwo as diurnal. The predominant habit was nocturnal, which is the result of adaptive behaviors relatedto predation and human actions. The results of this study show the biological importance of the regionand the need for new systematized studies focusing on the medium and large local mammal fauna,aiming to contribute to a more comprehensive knowledge of the local biodiversity.Keywords: Activity pattern. Behavior. Functional activity.
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