RESPONSES OF UNGULATES TO SEASONAL INUNDATIONS IN THE AMAZON FLOODPLAIN

被引：111

作者：

BODMER, RE

机构：

[1] Large Animal Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 34A Storeys Way, Cambridge

来源：

JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY | 1990年 / 6卷

关键词：

Amazon; deer; diet; floodplain forests; Mazama; peccaries; seasonality; Tapirus; Tayassu; terra firme forests;

D O I：

10.1017/S0266467400004314

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

. Terrestrial ungulates use different strategies to cope with widespread annual flooding of the Amazon basin. Red brocket deer (Mazama americana) and collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) retreat to floodplain islands and shift from a frugivorous to a woody browse diet. However, both white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) and lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) diets are unaffected by inundations; in the case of white-lipped peccary because they migrate into and out of flooded areas and in the case of lowland tapir because of their semi-aquatic nature. These-strategies of white-lipped peccary and lowland tapir enable them to exploit the greater fruit production of flooded forests more frequently than brocket deer and collared peccary. © 1990, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

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页码：191 / 201

页数：11

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