shift in microhabitat use as a mechanism allowing the coexistence of victim and killer carnivore predators小环境的转变作为一种机制让受害者的共存和杀手食肉动物捕食者.pdf

Vol.2, No.3, 115-120 (2012) Open Journal of Ecology /10.4236/oje.2012.23014 Shift in microhabitat use as a mechanism allowing the coexistence of victim and killer carnivore predators 1 1 1,2 1* María Viota , Alejandro Rodríguez , Jose V. López-Bao , Francisco Palomares 1Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain; * Corresponding Author: ffpaloma@ebd.csic.es 2Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden Received 1 May 2012; revised 3 June 2012; accepted 18 June 2012 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION It has been suggested that spatial heterogeneity Interspecific interactions among predators can greatly is key to the coexistence at local spatial scales shape community structure [1,2]. In particular, compete- of subordinate and dominant predator species tion and predation have been recognized as major factors by allowing the former to shift to more protective affecting population dynamics [3]. Intraguild predation habitats when the risk of intraguild predation [4-6] represents a convergence of both features and it has exists. Here, we show how the smaller carnivore been hypothesized that this ecological process involves Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) may more complex effects than competition or predation per coexist on a local scale with its intraguild pre- se [1,7]. In victim species, the risk of direct or