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OECOLOGIA
卷 196, 期 3, 页码 707-721出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-04964-1
关键词
Bayesian hierarchical distance sampling; Habitat shifts; Occupancy; Population dispersion; Tropical ecology
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资金
- University of California, Davis
- University of Michigan
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
- Hellman Foundation
- Leakey Foundation
- Orangutan Conservancy
- Fulbright Foundation
- Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
- AZA Ape TAG Initiative
The study on Western Bornean orangutans found that population abundance fluctuates dramatically across different forest types, with movements playing a crucial role in mitigating fruit scarcity. Peat swamps are identified as crucial fallback habitats, and the utilization of high elevation forests by orangutans is strongly influenced by abiotic conditions.
Understanding of animal responses to dynamic resource landscapes is based largely on research on temperate species with small body sizes and fast life histories. We studied a large, tropical mammal with an extremely slow life history, the Western Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii), across a heterogeneous natural landscape encompassing seven distinct forest types. Our goals were to characterize fluctuations in abundance, test hypotheses regarding the relationship between dispersion dynamics and resource availability, and evaluate how movement patterns are influenced by abiotic conditions. We surveyed abundance in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, for 99 consecutive months and simultaneously recorded weather data and assessed fruit availability. We developed a Bayesian hierarchical distance sampling model to estimate population dispersion and assess the roles of fruit availability, rainfall, and temperature in driving movement patterns across this heterogeneous landscape. Orangutan abundance varied dramatically over space and time. Each forest type was important in sustaining more than 40% of the total orangutans on site during at least one month, as animals moved to track asynchronies in fruiting phenology. We conclude that landscape-level movements buffer orangutans against fruit scarcity, peat swamps are crucial fallback habitats, and orangutans' use of high elevation forests is strongly dependent on abiotic conditions. Our results show that orangutans can periodically occupy putative-sink habitats and be virtually absent for extended periods from habitats that are vitally important in sustaining their population, highlighting the need for long-term studies and potential risks in interpreting occurrence or abundance measures as indicators of habitat importance.
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