Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape
The mechanism of coexistence and interspecific relationships between 2 predatory species has been an important topic in ecology for many years. To date, researchers have focused mostly on very similar species, such as 2 mammals or 2 birds of prey, occupying the same habitat. However, the situation w...
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ftdergipark2ojs:oai:dergipark.org.tr:article/153016 2023-05-15T15:56:30+02:00 Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape JANKOWIAK, Lukasz TRYJANOWSKI, Piotr 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z application/pdf https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tbtkzoology/issue/12610/153016 https://doi.org/10.3906/sag-1208-1 tr tur TÜBİTAK TUBITAK https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/134424 https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tbtkzoology/issue/12610/153016 doi:10.3906/sag-1208-1 Volume: 37, Issue: 2 157-162 1300-0179 1303-6114 Turkish Journal of Zoology Key words: Red fox,common buzzard,coexistence,cooccurrence,diet info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2013 ftdergipark2ojs https://doi.org/10.3906/sag-1208-1 2020-08-27T17:50:03Z The mechanism of coexistence and interspecific relationships between 2 predatory species has been an important topic in ecology for many years. To date, researchers have focused mostly on very similar species, such as 2 mammals or 2 birds of prey, occupying the same habitat. However, the situation where a predatory mammal may live sympatrically with a common bird of prey is probably more common. A good example is the coexistence of the red fox and the common buzzard. The relationship between these species with respect to spatial distribution, the abundance of a potentially important prey species (common vole), diet, trophic niche breadth, and niche overlap was studied in western Poland during 2006-2009. The distances between fox dens and buzzard nests were significantly shorter than would be expected by chance. The abundance of common vole was higher in sites where both predators were present than in the control sites, where neither predator was recorded. The trophic niche overlap between both predators was moderate (62.1%). However, the trophic niche breadth of the common buzzard was narrower (2.733) than that of the red fox (3.875), which implies that the fox is a more generalist predator. The mechanism of coexistence and interspecific relationships between 2 predatory species has been an important topic in ecology for many years. To date, researchers have focused mostly on very similar species, such as 2 mammals or 2 birds of prey, occupying the same habitat. However, the situation where a predatory mammal may live sympatrically with a common bird of prey is probably more common. A good example is the coexistence of the red fox and the common buzzard. The relationship between these species with respect to spatial distribution, the abundance of a potentially important prey species (common vole), diet, trophic niche breadth, and niche overlap was studied in western Poland during 2006-2009. The distances between fox dens and buzzard nests were significantly shorter than would be expected by chance. The abundance of common vole was higher in sites where both predators were present than in the control sites, where neither predator was recorded. The trophic niche overlap between both predators was moderate (62.1%). However, the trophic niche breadth of the common buzzard was narrower (2.733) than that of the red fox (3.875), which implies that the fox is a more generalist predator. Article in Journal/Newspaper Common vole DergiPark Akademik (E-Journals) TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 43 726 732 |
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Key words: Red fox,common buzzard,coexistence,cooccurrence,diet JANKOWIAK, Lukasz TRYJANOWSKI, Piotr Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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The mechanism of coexistence and interspecific relationships between 2 predatory species has been an important topic in ecology for many years. To date, researchers have focused mostly on very similar species, such as 2 mammals or 2 birds of prey, occupying the same habitat. However, the situation where a predatory mammal may live sympatrically with a common bird of prey is probably more common. A good example is the coexistence of the red fox and the common buzzard. The relationship between these species with respect to spatial distribution, the abundance of a potentially important prey species (common vole), diet, trophic niche breadth, and niche overlap was studied in western Poland during 2006-2009. The distances between fox dens and buzzard nests were significantly shorter than would be expected by chance. The abundance of common vole was higher in sites where both predators were present than in the control sites, where neither predator was recorded. The trophic niche overlap between both predators was moderate (62.1%). However, the trophic niche breadth of the common buzzard was narrower (2.733) than that of the red fox (3.875), which implies that the fox is a more generalist predator. The mechanism of coexistence and interspecific relationships between 2 predatory species has been an important topic in ecology for many years. To date, researchers have focused mostly on very similar species, such as 2 mammals or 2 birds of prey, occupying the same habitat. However, the situation where a predatory mammal may live sympatrically with a common bird of prey is probably more common. A good example is the coexistence of the red fox and the common buzzard. The relationship between these species with respect to spatial distribution, the abundance of a potentially important prey species (common vole), diet, trophic niche breadth, and niche overlap was studied in western Poland during 2006-2009. The distances between fox dens and buzzard nests were significantly shorter than would be expected by chance. The abundance of common vole was higher in sites where both predators were present than in the control sites, where neither predator was recorded. The trophic niche overlap between both predators was moderate (62.1%). However, the trophic niche breadth of the common buzzard was narrower (2.733) than that of the red fox (3.875), which implies that the fox is a more generalist predator. |
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Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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Cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox Vulpes vulpes and common buzzard Buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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cooccurrence and food niche overlap of two common predators (red fox vulpes vulpes and common buzzard buteo buteo) in an agricultural landscape |
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