Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future?

The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is considered a key species for its role as an ecosystem engineer. Given their important ecological function, there is a great concern in the scientific community regarding the many reports of disappearances or great abundance reductions throughout its distr...

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Autores principales: Reppucci, Juan I., Bustos, Soledad de, Caruso, Flavia, Fleitas Quintana, Rocío Soledad, Perovic, Pablo G.
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
Materias:
Ciencias Naturales
Tayassu pecari
Population
Ungulate
Ecological extinction
Cycle
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/154232
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1542322023-06-12T20:08:42Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/154232 issn:2376-6808 Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future? Reppucci, Juan I. Bustos, Soledad de Caruso, Flavia Fleitas Quintana, Rocío Soledad Perovic, Pablo G. 2022 2023-06-12T17:23:12Z en Ciencias Naturales Tayassu pecari Population Ungulate Ecological extinction Cycle The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is considered a key species for its role as an ecosystem engineer. Given their important ecological function, there is a great concern in the scientific community regarding the many reports of disappearances or great abundance reductions throughout its distribution (from southern Mexico to northern Argentina). Based on an extensive survey effort, we report new data of presence of WLP after a period of no detections in the Argentine Yungas. The study was conducted in the Yungas ecoregion, provinces of Jujuy and Salta, Argentina. Data was collected from camera trap, direct sightings and footprints during 2013–2021. From a total of 30,186 trap nights, we obtained 8 WLP detections. There were no detections before 2017, while as of 2018 there was at least one camera trap record in each of the years. Additionally, opportunistic records were obtained yearly from 2019 to 2021. The period without detections could be related to a period of a population cycle, as suggested in different regions of America during the last century, being disease the most likely cause. These cycles generally follow a pattern of a rapid population decline, a period of absence or low abundance followed by slow population growth. We believe that if the trend continues and the number of detections increases, we could be facing the early stages of the increase phase in the WLP population cycle in the Argentine Yungas. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo Articulo Articulo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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Tayassu pecari
Population
Ungulate
Ecological extinction
Cycle
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Tayassu pecari
Population
Ungulate
Ecological extinction
Cycle
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Bustos, Soledad de
Caruso, Flavia
Fleitas Quintana, Rocío Soledad
Perovic, Pablo G.
Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future?
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Ecological extinction
Cycle
description The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is considered a key species for its role as an ecosystem engineer. Given their important ecological function, there is a great concern in the scientific community regarding the many reports of disappearances or great abundance reductions throughout its distribution (from southern Mexico to northern Argentina). Based on an extensive survey effort, we report new data of presence of WLP after a period of no detections in the Argentine Yungas. The study was conducted in the Yungas ecoregion, provinces of Jujuy and Salta, Argentina. Data was collected from camera trap, direct sightings and footprints during 2013–2021. From a total of 30,186 trap nights, we obtained 8 WLP detections. There were no detections before 2017, while as of 2018 there was at least one camera trap record in each of the years. Additionally, opportunistic records were obtained yearly from 2019 to 2021. The period without detections could be related to a period of a population cycle, as suggested in different regions of America during the last century, being disease the most likely cause. These cycles generally follow a pattern of a rapid population decline, a period of absence or low abundance followed by slow population growth. We believe that if the trend continues and the number of detections increases, we could be facing the early stages of the increase phase in the WLP population cycle in the Argentine Yungas.
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Bustos, Soledad de
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Perovic, Pablo G.
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title Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future?
title_short Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future?
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title_fullStr Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future?
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