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Journal Article
Trophic niche overlap between coyotes and gray foxes in a temperate forest in Durango, Mexico
2021
Overview
Resource partitioning, and especially dietary partitioning, is a mechanism that has been studied for several canid species as a means to understand competitive relationships and the ability of these species to coexist. Coyotes ( Canis latrans ) and gray foxes ( Urocyon cinereoargenteus ) are two canid species that are widely distributed, in Mexico, and they are sympatric throughout most of their distribution range. However, trophic dynamic and overlap between them have not been thoroughly studied. In order to better understand their ecological relationship and potential competitive interactions, we studied the trophic niche overlap between both canids in a temperate forest of Durango, Mexico. The results are based on the analysis of 540 coyote and 307 gray fox feces collected in 2018. Both species consumed a similar range of food items, but the coyote consumed large species while the gray fox did not. For both species, the most frequently consumed food categories throughout the year and seasonally were fruit and wild mammals (mainly rodents and lagomorphs). Coyotes had higher trophic diversity in their annual diet ( H’ = 2.33) than gray foxes ( H’ = 1.80). When analyzing diets by season, trophic diversity of both species was higher in winter and spring and tended to decrease in summer and autumn. When comparing between species, this parameter differed significantly during all seasons except for summer. Trophic overlap throughout the year was high ( R 0 = 0.934), with seasonal variation between R 0 = 0.821 (autumn) and R 0 = 0.945 (spring). Both species based their diet on the most available food items throughout each season of the year, having high dietary overlap which likely can lead to intense exploitative competition processes. However, differences in trophic diversity caused by differential prey use can mitigate competitive interactions, allowing these different sized canid species to coexist in the study area.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Autumn
/ Coyotes
/ Diet
/ Ecology and Environmental Sciences
/ Feces
/ Food
/ Forests
/ Foxes
/ Identification and classification
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Mexico
/ Niches
/ Prey
/ Resource partitioning (Ecology)
/ Seasons
/ Species
/ Spring
/ Summer
/ Urocyon
