A COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF FOOD-NICHE RELATIONSHIPS AND TROPHIC GUILD STRUCTURE IN 2 ASSEMBLAGES OF VERTEBRATE PREDATORS DIFFERING IN SPECIES RICHNESS - CAUSES, CORRELATIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES

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dc.contributor.authorJAKSIC, FM
dc.contributor.authorDELIBES, M
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T19:25:57Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T19:25:57Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.description.abstractWe conducted a comparative analysis of food-niche relationships and trophic guild structure in two assemblages of vertebrate predators (including hawks, owls, snakes, and carnivores) living in similar habitats of Chile and Spain, which differed in species richness (11 and 25 predator species, respectively), to explore how the structure of predator assemblages reflects an increase (or decrease) in the number of coexisting species. Our results indicate that the Spanish assemblage appears enriched by the symmetrical "addition" of species with disparately large and small values of body weight, diet breadth, and mean prey size, around the same median value found in Chile. Or, alternatively, the Chilean assemblage appears impoverished by the symmetrical "loss" of peripheral species - those at both tails of the frequency distribution of the above trophic estimators. Spanish predators overlap less extensively among themselves, and with smaller variance, than Chilean predators. Consequently, the higher predator richness in Spain is not ascribable to their narrower diet breadths or more extensive diet overlaps as predicted by some theoretical models. Instead, it is associated with a more spread-out use of the available resources. Trophic guilds can be recognized in the two countries, but in Spain guilds are less tightly packed. Some taxomically unrelated species are close diet analogues between Spain and Chile, whereas some closely related species cannot be matched well between countries. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the presence of some trophic guilds and of some specialist predators in either country is based on the high abundance attained by some particular prey types.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.eissn1432-1939
dc.identifier.issn0029-8549
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/99546
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:A1987G065400021
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final472
dc.pagina.inicio461
dc.revistaOecologia
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods14 Life Below Water
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa14 Vida submarina
dc.titleA COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF FOOD-NICHE RELATIONSHIPS AND TROPHIC GUILD STRUCTURE IN 2 ASSEMBLAGES OF VERTEBRATE PREDATORS DIFFERING IN SPECIES RICHNESS - CAUSES, CORRELATIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen71
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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