Registros de mamíferos (mammalia: didelphimorphia, artiodactyla, carnivora, cingulata, lagomorpha, pilosa y rodentia) en reservas naturales privadas de Guatemala

Escobar-Anleu, Bárbara I.; Fuentes-Montejo, César E.; Ariano‐Sánchez, Daniel

doi:10.21829/azm.2017.3321077

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“…Given an estimated mean dispersal distance of 70 km ± 16 km (Gonzalez-Borrajo et al 2017), connectivity between our sites and the population of western Honduras is possible assuming the presence of suitable dispersal corridors. Less likely is the connection with the closest records of Pumas in the private nature reserves of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (Escobar-Anleu et al 2017) given both the isolation (linear distances of approx. 190 km) and the massive changes in forest cover in south-western Guatemala (López-Carr et al 2012).…”

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Big cats are still walking in El Salvador: first photographic records of Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) and an overview of historical records in the country

Morales-Rivas¹,

Álvarez²,

Pocasangre-Orellana³

et al. 2020

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The presence of Puma, Puma concolor, has been controversial in El Salvador due to the lack of published, verifiable data. We surveyed 119 sites in Montecristo National Park and 17 sites in the Río Sapo basin using wildlife cameras. We detected Pumas in both areas, representing the first photographic records for El Salvador. We call for a national Puma conservation strategy with research in basic ecology and migration corridors, regulation of hunting, management of livestock losses, and public acceptance programs. The Río Sapo basin should be granted formal protection.

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Big cats are still walking in El Salvador: first photographic records of Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) and an overview of historical records in the country

Morales-Rivas¹,

Álvarez²,

Pocasangre-Orellana³

et al. 2020

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More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala

Escobar-Anleu¹,

Soto-Shoender²,

Romero³

et al. 2023

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Agricultural practices can have detrimental impacts on biodiversity, but some studies have shown the benefits of agroforestry practices like shade-grown coffee to bird communities and, to a lesser extent, to mammal communities. To better understand whether shade-grown coffee plantations can contribute to the conservation of mammal communities, we deployed camera traps in private reserves with a matrix of shade-grown coffee plantations and forest in the highlands of Guatemala. At each reserve we estimated species richness of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals. We also estimated mammal relative abundance and occupancy probabilities as proxies for mammalian habitat associations and evaluated how these were affected by key landscape features (e.g., land-use type, asphalt roads, and distance to protected areas). We used hierarchical multi-species Bayesian abundance models that account for imperfect detection to estimate our parameters of interest and model the influence of landscape features on site-level species richness and species relative abundance. We detected 14 species across all reserves and found a strong influence of land use and presence of asphalt roads on mammalian relative abundances and species richness. More species used areas around the camera traps in forest than in shade-grown coffee plantations and far from asphalt roads. Our study shows that reserves with shade-grown coffee plantations can harbor terrestrial mammalian communities of conservation interest. Our results also suggest that to maintain mammalian diversity and abundances in our study area, shade-grown coffee crops should be mixed in with natural forests and the presence of asphalt roads within these should be avoided or minimized.

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Registros de mamíferos (mammalia: didelphimorphia, artiodactyla, carnivora, cingulata, lagomorpha, pilosa y rodentia) en reservas naturales privadas de Guatemala

Cited by 2 publications

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Big cats are still walking in El Salvador: first photographic records of Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) and an overview of historical records in the country

Big cats are still walking in El Salvador: first photographic records of Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) and an overview of historical records in the country

More trees with your coffee? Diversity and habitat associations of terrestrial medium- and large-sized mammals in shade-grown coffee plantations of the highlands of Guatemala

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