Distribution, Relative Abundance, Food Habits, and Parasite Patterns of Giant Rats (Rattus) in West Malaysia

Lim, B. L.

doi:10.2307/1378298

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“…10, Texspec NZ Limited, Auckland, New Zealand). All traps were baited with a special type of aromatic banana (pisang rasthali) as this was shown to be the most effective bait to attract small mammals, e.g., rodents, squirrels and tree shrews (Lim 1970;Charles 1996;Charles and Ang 2006). Details of all field methods employed in the long term study have been published elsewhere (Charles and Ang 2006).…”

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“…Community response 6: changes in the trophic structure of small mammal communities in kerangas forest fragments Based on the analyses of stomach contents of small mammals in our studies (including two undisturbed sites-BN and Bukit Patoi Forest Reserve) and from published literature (Ang et al 1999;Emmons 1987Emmons , 1991Harrison 1962;Langham 1983;Lekagul and McNeely 1988;Lim 1965Lim , 1970Medway 1978;Payne and Francis 2005;Rajaratnam et al 2007;Wong et al 2002) those small mammals that were cage and camera trapped in eight fragments and two undisturbed sites (BN and Bukit Patoi Forest Reserve) were classified into six categories: insectivore-frugivore-herbivore, insectivore-frugivore, carnivore, herbivore, 'invertebrate feeding' and omnivore (Table 4).…”

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Non-volant small mammal community responses to fragmentation of kerangas forests in Brunei Darussalam

Charles

Ang

2009

Biodivers Conserv

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This paper summarises the effects of kerangas forest fragmentation on the nonvolant small mammal community resident in the fragments based on a long term study conducted in Brunei Darussalam. These effects are shown as eight responses-a significant reduction in the species richness and diversity in relation to size of fragments, the disappearance of species with large home ranges and specific habitat requirements, invasion of generalists/opportunists into the fragments from degraded habitats, absence of predators, a possible reduction in the activity space of generalists in fragments, erosion in the trophic structure of the small mammal community, changes in the small mammal abundance in relation to fragment size and dominance of one species over other co-occurring species in an isolated fragment. These responses are briefly explained and their significance discussed.

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Non-volant small mammal community responses to fragmentation of kerangas forests in Brunei Darussalam

Charles

Ang

2009

Biodivers Conserv

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“…It could also be very interesting to perform such DNA barcoding analysis using universal primers designed to amplify animal DNA, because the Leopoldamys species also eat small preys such as insects or snails (Langham, 1983;Lim, 1970). A small fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase I gene (Hajibabaei et al, 2011) could be the ideal marker for this purpose.…”

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“…Rodents and other small mammals living in forests of Southeast Asia are generally considered to be omnivorous (Emmons, 2000;Langham, 1983;Lim, 1970), and they play a key role in the food chain, both as consumers of plants and small invertebrates, and as food resources for larger predators. Rodents may also play an important role in the frugivores' community as seed dispersers or seed predators, and it has been suggested that some Leopoldamys species might benefit seed recruitment of several tree species by seed hoarding or seed ingestion in Southeast Asia and China (Cheng et al, 2005;Wells et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2008).…”

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Diet Analysis of Leopoldamys Neilli, a Cave-dwelling Rodent in Southeast Asia, Using Next-Generation Sequencing from Feces

Latinne¹,

Galan²,

Waengsothorn³

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JCKS

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Leopoldamys neilli is a Murinae rodent endemic to limestone karst of Thailand and the Lao PDR, but its ecology and the reasons of its endemism to karst are still totally unknown. The aim of this pilot study was to examine the plant composition of the diet of L. neilli at the level of order and family using DNA for molecular identification and to compare it with two other forest-dwelling Leopoldamys species, L. herberti and L. sabanus. A 202bp fragment of the rbcL gene was amplified and sequenced for twenty-three fecal samples of the three species using 454 pyrosequencing. We successfully identified a total of seventeen orders and twenty-one plant families, corresponding to thirty-three putative species, in the feces of these three Leopoldamys species. Solanaceae were the most common plants in the diet of L.neilli regardless of the region and sampling season, and they were also present in feces of both L. herberti and L. sabanus. The Araceae, Fabaceae, and Apocynaceae families were also identified in feces of L. neilli collected in various regions of Thailand and at different seasons. Plants of the Oleaceae family are consumed by both L. herberti and L. sabanus but were not found in the diet of L. neilli. Further improvements of the study, such as the use of additional genes, the creation of a reference collection, the microhistological examination of plant fragments to determine which parts of the plant are consumed, and the analysis of the animal diet of Leopoldamys are suggested to enhance the quality and accuracy of the results obtained.

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“…The long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) is present throughout the Sunda region of Southeast Asia and is a common, generalist species in local assemblages of small mammals (Lim 1970). Giant rats are mostly active on the ground with occasional forays up into the canopy.…”

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Movement and ranging patterns of a tropical rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) in logged and unlogged rain forests

Wells

Kalko

Lakim

et al. 2008

Journal of Mammalogy

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Distribution, Relative Abundance, Food Habits, and Parasite Patterns of Giant Rats (Rattus) in West Malaysia

Cited by 33 publications

References 11 publications

Non-volant small mammal community responses to fragmentation of kerangas forests in Brunei Darussalam

Non-volant small mammal community responses to fragmentation of kerangas forests in Brunei Darussalam

Diet Analysis of Leopoldamys Neilli, a Cave-dwelling Rodent in Southeast Asia, Using Next-Generation Sequencing from Feces

Movement and ranging patterns of a tropical rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) in logged and unlogged rain forests

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