Habitat Preference, Feeding Habits and Conservation of Baird’s Tapir in Neotropical Montane Oak Forests

Tobler, Mathias W.; Naranjo, Eduardo; Lira-Torres, Iván

doi:10.1007/3-540-28909-7_27

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“…In the Lacandon Forest, Muench [28] found that tapirs preferred palm swamps, riparian forest, and successional vegetation (caused by natural disturbance) over mature rainforest and open areas. In fact, available field data on habitat preferences suggest that Baird's tapir prefers habitat types which have: (1) greater availability of permanent water bodies; (2) a more diverse and dense understory (which implies more food); (3) larger extensions of riparian vegetation; (4) less incidence of fires; and (5) less hunting pressure and human presence [11,[28][29][30][31][32][33] (Fig. 2).…”

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Ecology and Conservation of Baird's Tapir in Mexico

Naranjo

2009

Tropical Conservation Science

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Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is endangered primarily because of habitat loss and fragmentation, and overhunting throughout its distribution range (ca. 21,000 km 2 ) in the Mexican states of Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and possibly Yucatan and Tabasco. The number of tapirs occurring in Mexico is estimated around 2,600 individuals, which are also threatened by factors such as forest fires, large-scale infrastructure projects (building of dams and highways), disease transmission from domestic animals, pollution of water bodies, and global climatic change effects. A strategy for tapir conservation in Mexico should include: 1) protection and management of extant habitat; 2) creation and maintaining of corridors among isolated forest fragments containing tapirs; 3) community-based control of poaching; 4) development of economic alternatives for people living near tapir habitat; 5) captive breeding programs with educational, scientific, and conservationist purposes; 6) environmental education and communication programs in rural and urban areas near tapir habitat; and 7) research on distribution, abundance, habitat use and availability, population status, movement patterns, feeding habits, genetic variability, interactions with domestic species, diseases, and responses to habitat fragmentation, hunting, and global climatic change.

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Ecology and Conservation of Baird's Tapir in Mexico

Naranjo

2009

Tropical Conservation Science

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“…En general, se ha encontrado una menor abundancia relativa de tapires en sectores con un mayor impacto humano, como senderos ecoturísticos o áreas de cultivo (Tobler et al 2006). Sin embargo, los tapires no evitan completamente las áreas con actividades antropogénicas, ya que también pueden hacer uso de caminos y cultivos o zonas de vegetación secundaria (Tobler 2002;Lira-Torres et al 2004;Reyna-Hurtado y Tanner 2005;Tobler et al 2006).…”

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“…Sin embargo, los tapires no evitan completamente las áreas con actividades antropogénicas, ya que también pueden hacer uso de caminos y cultivos o zonas de vegetación secundaria (Tobler 2002;Lira-Torres et al 2004;Reyna-Hurtado y Tanner 2005;Tobler et al 2006). Esto puede deberse a que aunque exista aprovechamiento forestal, los tapires pueden retraerse por un tiempo en áreas no perturbadas, y posteriormente, pasado el disturbio regresar al área donde hubo el aprovechamiento forestal (Tobler et al 2006). Se piensa que el tapir puede habitar zonas perturbadas, mientras no sea una presa preferida de cacería, y existan selvas en Tabla 1.…”

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“…Una revisión reciente revela que el tamaño de la población estimada para México es de menos de 2,605 individuos distribuidos de manera aislada en reservas de los estados de Campeche, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Oaxaca y Veracruz; donde con base en estimaciones de densidad y abundancia, las mayores poblaciones de tapires estarían en Calakmul-Balam-Ku-Balam Kin (Campeche), La Fraylescana y la Selva Lacandona (Chiapas), Uxpanapa (Veracruz), y Los Chimalapas (Oaxaca; Naranjo 2009; Naranjo et al 2015). Para la región de Calakmul, las amenazas para la conservación del tapir son la sequía, la construcción de carreteras, la fragmentación del hábitat y en menor medida la cacería (Tobler et al 2006;Naranjo 2009;Pérez-Cortez y Matus-Pérez 2010;Naranjo et al 2015).…”

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Pond use and relative abundance of Tapirus bairdii in the Calakmul region, Campeche, Mexico

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Water holes formed by precipitation in Calakmul region southern Mexico are of high importance for the conservation of many endangered species, such is the case of the Central American Tapir (Tapirus bairdii). These water holes locally named "aguadas" are the only source of water for wildlife in the dry season. The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative abundance and the use of these "aguadas" by Tapirus bairdii in two sites with different conditions: the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve (RBC) a protected area, and the ejido Nuevo Becal (NB) a perturbed site where hunting and other non-timber resources extraction take place. It is expected that in RBC the relative abundance of tapirs and the use of the water holes are higher than in NB. Camera traps were set in nine water holes in NB and nine in RBC in 2014. In addition, in RBC six water holes were monitored since December 2012 until 2013. The relative abundance was calculated as the number of independent photographs divided by the sampling effort per 1,000 traps / night. For the use of water holes analysis, the variables evaluated were: latency (the lapse of time for the tapirs to return to a water hole) and the visit frequency per month. We compare the use of the water holes between seasons and between sites. Relative abundance of tapirs in 2014 was of 37.0 and 6.2 registers/1,000 camera-traps in NB and RBC, respectively (sampling effort: 2,268 days per site). The water holes in NB were significantly more visited than the ones in the RBC (P < 0.05). The latency time was of 9.6 days in NB, and 10.8 days in RBC during the dry season, and 39.0 days in NB and 38.5 days in RBC during the wet season. The water holes were visited 1.8 times in NB and 0.3 times in RBC per month in the dry season, and 0.37 times in NB and 0.16 times in RBC in the rainy season. The fact of finding a higher abundance of tapirs in a place where antropogenic perturbation exists and with a higher abundance of water, indicated that water bodies are one of the most important attribute for the conservation of tapirs' population in the region of Calakmul. Moreover, the high index of relative abundance found in an area where human perturbation exists, means that human activities in places where tapir is not hunted, does not have a significant detrimental effect in the tapir´s populations. Therefore, the ejido NB is highlighted as a priority area for the conservation of the Centroamerican tapir in Mexico.En la región de Calakmul en el sur de México, las aguadas (cuerpos de agua formados por la precipitación) son de gran importancia para la conservación de muchas especies que se encuentran en peligro de extinción, como el tapir centroamericano (Tapirus bairdii). Estos reservorios constituyen la única fuente de agua para la fauna silvestre durante la estación seca. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron: estimar la abundancia relativa del tapir y la intensidad de uso de las aguadas por Tapirus bairdii en en dos sitios contrastantes en cuanto a su disponibilidad de agua, la Reserva de la Biosfera ...

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“…Aragon et al 2009, Corredor Prado & Bejarano Bonilla 2009. Like investigations of larger mammals in these systems (Walker & Cardenas 2004, Cujar-Tovar 2006, Tobler et al 2006, these studies have depended upon indices of activity rather than population size estimations to assess habitat relationships and community dynamics. Attempts to determine population size or relative abundance often have used less precise estimation methods such as Minimum Number Left Alive (Vazquez et al 2000), Lincoln Index (Fleming 1974), or JollySeber methods (Rojas Rojas & Barboza Rodriguez 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%