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Do Mesocarnivores Respond to the Seasonality in Management Practices in an Agroforestry Landscape?
| dc.contributor.author | Barros, Ana Luisa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Raposo, Diogo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Almeida, João David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Alcobia, Sandra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Maria Alexandra | |
| dc.contributor.author | MacKenzie, Darryl I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos-Reis, Margarida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-03T18:17:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-03T18:17:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the Mediterranean, we find a mosaic of natural and cultural landscapes, where a variety of forest management practices created intermediate disturbance regimes that potentially increased biodiversity values. Nonetheless, it is essential to understand the species’ long-term response to the dynamic management in agroecosystems, since the species tolerance to disturbance can change throughout the life cycle. Mammalian carnivores can be sensitive to human disturbance and are an essential part of ecosystems due to their regulatory and community structuring effects. We investigated the spatial response of five mesocarnivores species to spatially- and temporally- varying management practices in an agroforestry landscape. More specifically, we assessed the mesocarnivores’ temporal changes in space use by implementing multi-season occupancy models in a Bayesian framework, using seasonal camera-trapping surveys for a 2-year period. All species had a weak response of local extinction to forestry management and livestock grazing pressure. For forest-dwelling species, occupancy was higher where productivity of perennial vegetation was high, while colonization between seasons was positively associated with vegetation cover. For habitat generalist species, we found that occupancy in the wet season increased with the distance to cattle exclusion plots. Most of these plots are pine stands which are subject to forestry interventions during winter. During the 2-year period we found seasonal fluctuations in occupancy for all species, with an overall slight decrease for three mesocarnivore species, while for the two forest-dwelling species there was an increase in occupancy between years. The weak species response to management practices supports the importance of traditional management for upholding a diverse mesocarnivore community in agroforestry systems but could also reflect these species’ ecological plasticity and resilience to disturbance. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Barros, A.L., Raposo, D., Almeida, J.D. et al. Do Mesocarnivores Respond to the Seasonality in Management Practices in an Agroforestry Landscape?. Environmental Management (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-02003-2 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00267-024-02003-2 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/65215 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Springer | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | (FCT) (UIDB/00329/2020; https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/00329/2020) and we further acknowledge the support of LtsER Montado platform (http://www.Ltsermontado.pt/) (LTER_EU_PT_001) | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | Fieldwork at Companhia das Lezírias S.A. was possible through a research protocol established with Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), under the strategic plan of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) and the CL forest management certified by an international standard, since 27/9/2010 (certificate SA – FM / COC – 002659). | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | research infrastructure PORBIOTA – E-Infraestrutura Portuguesa de Informação e Investigação em Biodiversidade (Project nr. 22127) and Idea Wild (RODRPORT0921) was essential for the acquisition of equipment | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | FCT (SFRH/BD/147206/2019). | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Do Mesocarnivores Respond to the Seasonality in Management Practices in an Agroforestry Landscape? | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.title | Environmental Management | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Barros | |
| person.familyName | Soares Gomes Cardosos de Oliveira | |
| person.familyName | Santos-Reis | |
| person.givenName | Ana Luisa | |
| person.givenName | Maria Alexandra | |
| person.givenName | Margarida | |
| person.identifier | J-7044-2013 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | EF15-B47F-4099 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 4911-7756-340F | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0009-0005-4730-3468 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6771-5949 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-0337-963X | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 55879380300 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 6603189806 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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