Dieta de Micoureus demerarae (Thomas) (Mammalia, Didelphidae) associada às florestas contíguas de mangue e terra firme em Bragança, Pará, Brasil

Fernandes, Marcus Emanuel Barroncas; Andrade, Fernanda Atanaena Gonçalves de; Júnior, José de Sousa e Silva

doi:10.1590/s0101-81752006000400015

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“…It was present in the analysis. However, the absence of other contents from animal origin made us suppose that hair consumption was accidental, for instance through self-cleaning or collective cleaning, similar to what was reported by FERNANDES et al (2006). Cylindrical endoparasite worms from the phylum Nematoda were found in the stomach of 19 subjects, all adults, showing abundance of 1.47% and frequency of occurrence of 33.33% (a total of 57 subjects were analyzed) (Table I), despite the usual presence of hair (Table I).…”

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confidence: 67%

“…The constancy of a diet can be related to different factors, such as the behavioral responses of the species in relation to the ecosystem where it inhabits. The selection and permanence of the animal in microhabitats with similar food resources can explain the constancy in dietary items (FERNANDES et al 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…After that, the stomachs were washed in freshwater and transferred to alcohol 70%. Subsequently, the stomach content was removed and dissolved in 20 ml of distilled water in millimetre-scaled Petri dish (FERNANDES et al 2006). The material from the stomach was analyzed using a stereoscopic microscope and Pipette tips (FERNANDES et al 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Diet of Monodelphis glirina (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in forest fragments in southern Amazon

Castilheiro¹,

Filho²

2013

Zoologia (Curitiba)

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Diet of Monodelphis glirina (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in forest fragments in southern Amazon

Castilheiro¹,

Filho²

2013

Zoologia (Curitiba)

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“…We focus on the main groups of animals found in the mangrove habitat: sponges, various groups of meiofauna and macrofauna (epifauna and infauna), prawns, insects, fishes (bony fishes and elasmobranchs), amphibians, reptiles, and birds, accepting that a review of the complete fauna would be too far-reaching for this special issue, and that some mangrove fauna are not discussed here. These include less-well studied taxa like zooplankton (e.g., Mohan and Sreenivas, 1998;Ferrari et al, 2003;Krumme and Liang, 2004), tunicates (e.g., Carballo, 2000;Goodbody, 2003;Rocha et al, 2005), and mammals such as bats (Bordignon, 2006), buffalo (Dahdouh-Guebas et al, 2006), deer (Barrett and Stiling, 2006), dolphins (Smith et al, 2006), flying foxes (Moore, 2002), manatees (Spiegelberger and Ganslosser, 2005), marsupials (Fernandes et al, 2006), otters (Angelici et al, 2005), primates (Nijman, 2000), rabbits (Forys and Humphrey, 1996), raccoons (Cuaron et al, 2004), and tigers (Gopal and Chauhan, 2006).…”

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The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: A review

et al. 2008

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Mangroves are defined by the presence of trees that mainly occur in the intertidal zone, between land and sea, in the (sub) tropics. The intertidal zone is characterised by highly variable environmental factors, such as temperature, sedimentation and tidal currents. The aerial roots of mangroves partly stabilise this environment and provide a substratum on which many species of plants and animals live. Above the water, the mangrove trees and canopy provide important habitat for a wide range of species. These include birds, insects, mammals and reptiles. Below the water, the mangrove roots are overgrown by epibionts such as tunicates, sponges, algae, and bivalves. The soft substratum in the mangroves forms habitat for various infaunal and epifaunal species, while the space between roots provides shelter and food for motile fauna such as prawns, crabs and fishes. Mangrove litter is transformed into detritus, which partly supports the mangrove food web. Plankton, epiphytic algae and microphytobenthos also form an important basis for the mangrove food web. Due to the high abundance of food and shelter, and low predation pressure, mangroves form an ideal habitat for a variety of animal species, during part or all of their life cycles. As such, mangroves may function as nursery habitats for (commercially important) crab, prawn and fish species, and support offshore fish populations and fisheries. Evidence for linkages between mangroves and offshore habitats by animal migrations is still scarce, but highly needed for management and conservation purposes. Here, we firstly reviewed the habitat function of mangroves by common taxa of terrestrial and marine animals. Secondly, we reviewed the literature with regard to the degree of interlinkage between mangroves and adjacent habitats, a research area which has received increasing attention in the last decade. Finally, we reviewed current insights into the degree to which mangrove litter fuels the mangrove food web, since this has been the subject of longstanding debate.

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“…Many species of medium-to large-bodied mammals are also directly affected by a reduction in habitat patch area (Chiarello 2000;Michalski and Peres 2007), but fewer studies have considered environmental variables other than forest patch size. For example, arthropods form a large component of the diets of both rodents and marsupials (Bergallo and Magnusson 1999;Pinheiro et al 2002;Fernandes et al 2006), yet most vertebrate community studies fail to consider the combined effects of both habitat structure and food resource availability.…”

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Habitat patch and matrix effects on small-mammal persistence in Amazonian forest fragments

et al. 2012

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Tropical forest mammal assemblages are widely affected by the twin effects of habitat loss and habitat fragmentation. We evaluated the effects of forest patch metrics, habitat structure, age of patch isolation, and landscape metrics on the species richness, abundance and composition of small mammals at 23 forest fragments (ranging in size from 43 to 7,035 ha) in a highly deforested 3,609-km2 landscape of southwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Using pitfall traps and both terrestrial and arboreal traplines of Sherman, Tomahawk and snap traps, we captured a total of 844 individuals over 34,900 trap-nights representing 26 species and 20 genera of small-mammals, including 13 rodent and 13 marsupial species. We also consider the effects of distance from forest edges on species occupancy and abundance. Overall small mammal abundance, species richness and species composition were primarily affected by the quality of the open-habitat matrix of cattle pastures, rather than by patch metrics such as fragment size. Ultimately, small mammal community structure was determined by a combination of both landscape- and patch-scale variables. Knowledge of the anthropogenic factors that govern small mammal community structure is of critical importance for managing the persistence of forest vertebrates in increasingly fragmented neotropical forest landscapes

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Dieta de Micoureus demerarae (Thomas) (Mammalia, Didelphidae) associada às florestas contíguas de mangue e terra firme em Bragança, Pará, Brasil

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Diet of Monodelphis glirina (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in forest fragments in southern Amazon

Diet of Monodelphis glirina (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in forest fragments in southern Amazon

The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: A review

Habitat patch and matrix effects on small-mammal persistence in Amazonian forest fragments

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